Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
perezparedes New report: The Value of Languages (Cambridge Public Policy) URL here (Cambridge Language Sciences Strategic Research Initiative) PDF document here. Added value: Language contributes to UK prosperity: languages are a ‘value-added’ skill Language learning forms part of ‘cultural agility’ from knowing other languages and cultures Languages provide value-added skills across a range of occupations … Read more
KONVENS 2016 http://www.linguistics.rub.de/konvens16/ The Conference on Natural Language Processing (“Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache”, KONVENS) aims at offering a broad perspective on current research and developments within the interdisciplinary field of natural language processing. It allows researchers from all disciplines relevant to this field of research to present their work. The conference will take place … Read more
AAAL PORTLAND 2017 – CALL FOR PROPOSALS The 2017 conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) will be held at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront in Portland, Oregon on March 18-21, 2017. The theme for the 2017 AAAL Conference is “Applied Linguistics and Transdisciplinarity”. PLENARY SPEAKERS Li Wei, University College London/Institute of Education … Read more
SLA Research Colloquium Venue: Drama Studio, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL Date: Saturday, 14th May 2015 (10 am – 4.15 pm) 10:00 – 10:10 Welcome, introduction and opening remarks 10.10 – 10.45 Kazuya Saito (Birkbeck College) Role of individual differences in second language speech learning: A … Read more
The following was originally found on https://developer.apple.com https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/textutil.1.html NAME textutil — text utility SYNOPSIS textutil [command_option] [other_options] file … DESCRIPTION textutil can be used to manipulate text files of various formats, using the mechanisms provided by the Cocoa text system. The first argument indicates the operation to perform, one of: -help Show the usage information … Read more
Original post here. Copyright MacIssues. There are a number of ways you can convert a text document to another format, by simply opening it in a text editor like TextEdit and then choosing Save As from the File menu to export it. With TextEdit, you can choose Word, Rich Text, Plain Text, and OpenDocument Text, … Read more