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CFP 17th International CALL Research Conference Task Design and CALL 6-8 July 2015, Tarragona, Spain

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XVIIth International CALL Research Conference Task Design and CALL 6-8 July 2015, Tarragona, Spain The concept In recent CALL articles, conference presentations and project proposals, we notice a renewed interest in activities, and less emphasis on technology or theoretical pedagogy. These activities, elective or compulsory, can be subdivided into three partly overlapping categories: (a) focus-on-form … Read more

Measuring ling. complexity: A multidisciplinary perspective

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Update  All presentations here The Linguistics Research Unit of the Institute of Language and Communication hosted a workshop on ‘Measuring linguistic complexity: A multidisciplinary perspective’ on Friday 24 April, 2015.  The main objective of the workshop were to bring together specialists from a number of different but related fields to discuss the construct of linguistic complexity … Read more

Digital natives and corpora in language learning #corpuslinguistics

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For digital natives, “research” is more likely to mean a Google search than a trip to the library […] it remains to be seen how corpus resources co-exist with online services like Google and online distionaries and how learners’ search habits behave in both contexts (Pérez-Paredes et al. 2012:484). Pérez-Paredes, P., Sánchez-Tornel, M., & Alcaraz … Read more