Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
One of my RSLE students asked me if I could provide her with a reading list on corpus based research. Her interests are within teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. The list is for obvious reasons far from comprehensive. I’ve decided to choose those resources I’ve used in the past and which I have found … Read more
The deadline of the CfP for LCR 2017 has been extended to Tuesday, 31 January 2017 4th Learner Corpus Research Conference, Bolzano/Bozen, 5-7 October 2017 Call for Papers Following the successful conferences in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) in 2011, Bergen (Norway) in 2013 and Nijmegen (the Netherlands) in 2015, the 4th Learner Corpus Research Conference will be hosted … Read more
International Conference Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology. Recent advances and interdisciplinary approaches. London, 13-14 November 2017 Conference topics The forthcoming international conference âComputational and Corpus-based Phraseology: recent advances and interdisciplinary approaches will take place in London on 13 and 14 November, 2017. The conference will focus on interdisciplinary approaches to phraseology and will invite submissions on … Read more
The 14th meeting of Corpus Linguistics in the South will be held on Saturday March 4, 2017 at Birkbeck, University of London. To register for this event, please send an email to Rachelle Vessey (r.vessey@bbk.ac.uk) and include the following details: Name Affiliation Email address Please also indicate if you would like to join in … Read more
From the TAALES website: Kyle, K. & Crossley, S. A. (2015). Automatically assessing lexical sophistication: Indices, tools, findings, and application. TESOL Quarterly 49(4), pp. 757-786. doi: 10.1002/tesq.194 TAALES is a tool that measures over 400 classic and new indices of lexical sophistication, and includes indices related to a wide range of sub-constructs. TAALES indices have … Read more
4th Learner Corpus Research Conference Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, 5‐7 October 2017 http://lcr2017.eurac.edu Abstracts should be submitted through EasyChair by Sunday 15 January 2017. Notification of the outcome of the review process will be sent by 31 March 2017. Call for Papers Following the successful conferences in Louvain‐la‐Neuve (Belgium) in 2011, Bergen (Norway) in 2013 and Nijmegen … Read more