applied linguistics

#CFP AAAL Portland 2017

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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

Corpus linguistics in the South 11, U. Sussex

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  Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, 27 February 2016 Some of the presentations ____________________ Lee Oakley, University of Birmingham Some challenges when analysing a Census Corpus The SexEd Corpus: a census corpus 1950-2014 93,202 words 11-16 year olds Teenage readership How are different sexualities presented to British teenagers? Methodological approach to more qualitative analyses All … Read more

From EFL to EMI

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There is a fast-moving worldwide shift from English being taught as a foreign language (EFL) to English being the medium of instruction (EMI) for academic subjects” (Dearden, 2014, p. 2). Dearden, J. (2014). English as a medium of instruction-a growing global phenomenon: Phase 1. London: British Council.

#CFP CLS12: Corpus studies at the lexis-grammar interface NEW deadline March 10

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CLS12 will take place on Saturday 2 April 2016 at Edge Hill University. The focus of CLS12 is the interaction of lexis and grammar. The focus is influenced by Halliday’s view of lexis and grammar as “complementary perspectives” (1991: 32), and his conception of the two as notional ends of a continuum (lexicogrammar), in that … Read more