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EUROCALL2015 Deadline for submissions of proposals 15th February #corpuscall

Submission of abstracts is now open for EUROCALL2015

The 22nd EUROCALL conference will be held at the University of Padova in Italy from 26th to 29th August 2015.

The program will include individual papers, symposia, workshops, presentations on EU-funded projects, and posters.

EUROCALL conferences are hosted under the auspices of the EUROCALL Association. They bring together educators, researchers, PhD students, administrators, designers of software and language learning systems, policy makers and other professionals involved in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) around the globe.

Conference Theme
The theme of this year’s conference is Critical CALL, fostering the notion that we now want to step back and critically appraise the field of CALL, to unpack and examine some of the assumptions that may have become ingrained in our practice, and also to reflect on the state of CALL and language pedagogy. There is also a need to take a critical stance and question what it is we are doing and whose interests we might be serving, since technology is not neutral, and nor is education. Inspired by those who advocate critical approaches to second language teaching, learning and assessment, especially when mediated by technology, we are particularly interested in contributions that look at the interdependence between language learning, power relationships and social change.

Papers on the following themes would be particularly welcome:
· Lessons learnt in CALL
· The constraints of CALL (institutional, financial, technological, social)
· Hegemonies in CALL
· Corpora and foreign language teaching and course design
· Learner corpora
· CALL for CLIL and Language Medium Instruction
· Interdisciplinarity and Internationalization through CALL
· Telecollaboration and CMC
· CALL and less commonly taught languages
· CALL, inclusion and social justice
· Digital and critical literacies
· Open educational resources
· MOOCs for language learning
· Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL)
· Gaming and virtual worlds
· Learning analytics and CALL design
· Online testing and assessment
· Teacher education and professional development
· Evaluating CALL research

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Keynote speakers at EUROCALL2015 will be:
-Sìan Bayne (University of Edinburgh) on critical approaches to ICT
-Lynn Mario Menezes de Souza (Universidade de Sao Paulo)
-Robert O’Dowd (Universidad de León, Spain)

SUBMISSION PROCESS

Proposals for Papers, Symposia, European Projects, Workshops and Posters must be submitted online via the EUROCALL submission system which is now open. The submission system will close on 15th February 2015.

Abstracts may be submitted in English or Italian.

Authors of accepted presentations are requested to submit a short paper (1,500 words) for publication in the online conference proceedings, and may also submit an extended version for peer-reviewed publication in ReCALL or the EUROCALL Review. Details will follow shortly.

Important dates
Deadline for submissions of proposals: 15th February 2015

Notification of acceptance: 31st March 2015

Early-bird Registration ends: 31st May 2015

Deadline for submissions of short papers for proceedings: 30th June 2015

XVIIth International CALL Research Conference: Task Design and CALL Deadline for submission of abstracts Jan 30

Second CALL for Papers

XVIIth International CALL Research Conference: Task Design and CALL

(http://wwwa.fundacio.urv.cat/congressos/call-conference-2015/)

6-8 July 2015

Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

More CFP here

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 tasks which can be defined as meaningful tasks in which the focus on particular forms is tightly embedded; (b) focus-on-meaning tasks which should lead to communication (CMC approach) or any kind of non-linguistic outcome (TBLT approach); and (c) form-focused exercises that focus on isolated forms, such as improved and enriched (drill-and-practice) exercises.

During this conference we will discuss the design process behind these tasks: How do we decide on task types? How do we shape them? How do we monitor and evaluate them?

Submitted presentations should tackle questions such as:

– How do we design authentic, meaningful, useful and enjoyable tasks?
– To what extent do tasks depend on context?
– What can CALL learn from TBLT?
– What can TBLT learn from CALL?
– What affordances and limitations of technology should be considered in task design?
– How does technology impact on non-technological tasks?
– What are the specific challenges for LMOOCs, OERs, WebQuests, Interactive Whiteboards, Student Response Systems, Synchronous Collaborative Writing Tools, Serious Games… ?
– How do our tasks fit in with Complex Dynamic Systems Theory, Socioconstructivist environments, Flipped Classroom approaches …?
– What is the role of corrective feedback in tasks?
– What are the consequences for Learner Analytics?
– Which tasks are best suited for which skills?
– Which tasks are most appropriate for developing intercultural competence?

Keynote speakers

Prof. dr. Kris Van Den Branden, KULeuven, Belgium
David Collien, PhD researcher & VP Engineering OpenLearning.com, Sydney, Australia

Conference website

http://www.call2015.org

Awards

The conference organizers will reward the best paper submission as ‘selected plenary’.
The best presentation by a PhD student will receive the Jaclyn Ng Shi Ing Award, in memory of our friend and colleague who passed away in the tragic event of Flight MH17.

Call for Proposals

Just download the template provided on the conference website. Your submission should contain:

– 10-20 lines on the context of your research: situate your contribution;
– 20-40 lines where you focus on the conference theme and try to tackle one of the questions mentioned above.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 30, 2015
Notification of acceptance: February 23rd 2015
Deadline for submission of conference paper (1 000 – 3 000 words): March 20th 2015

3rd Learner Corpus Research Conference Radboud University Sept 2015

More info here.

1st international conference: Approaches to digital discourse analysis – ADDA 1 Valencia, 19-20 november 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers are invited for the 1st International Conference: Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis – ADDA 1, which will take place in Valencia, 19-20 November 2015.

This conference aims to bring together researches interested in the analysis of digital discourse from different disciplines, approaches and traditions. Thus, it seeks to foster state-of-the-art debates and discussions on this burgeoning field of research and provide opportunities for multidisciplinary and critical reflection.

Convenors

Patricia Bou-Franch – Universitat de Valencia

Pilar G. Blitvich – University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Confirmed plenary speakers

Jannis Androutsopoulos – Universität Hamburg

Susan C. Herring – Indiana University

Crispin Thurlow – University of Bern

Conference themes

Papers are invited from discourse scholars from different traditions focusing on digital discourse, among others:

· Research methods in digital discourse analysis
· Critical digital discourse analysis
· Micro analysis of digital discourse
· Digital genres
· Discourse and identities in the digital world
· Multimodality and digital discourse
· Conflict in digital discourse
· Cognitive approaches to discourse analysis
· Digital discourse and the professions
· Digital service encounters
· Political discourse in the digital age
· Gender and the digital media
· Digital discourse and education

Submission information

Important dates:

15 January: Deadline for panel proposals

30 January: Notification of acceptance of panel proposals

15 February: Deadline for abstracts submission (including those in accepted panels)

15 March: Notification of acceptance

· Panel proposals:

Panel proposals are invited by 15 January 2015. In order to propose a panel, organizer(s) need to submit the panel title, a description (up to 500 words), and a list of participants (up to 6) along with the titles of their individual presentations. Once the panel is approved, individual presenters should submit their abstracts (before February 15) in order to be reviewed externally. When they submit their individual proposals, panel participants should mention the title of the panel they are contributing to. Panel organizers would need to make sure that all panel participants submit their proposals timely and follow the guidelines for proposals

· Individual papers:

Abstracts of no more than 350 words, including references, are invited. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 February 2015. Please send the abstracts to the conference email address, as a word document and remember not to include author(s) name and affiliation in the abstract.

. Notification of acceptance by 15 March.

Future publication

There will be a call for full papers, as we are planning to publish a volume with selected contributions. Details will follow soon.

Contact

For any queries please contact ADDA 1 organizers Patricia Bou-Franch and Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich at adda.organizers@gmail.com

CFP Mutliword Expressions: Insights from a Multi-lingual Perspective

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Through

Manfred Sailer and Stella Markantonatou (parseme-wg1-book@english-linguistics.de)

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Provisional title: Mutliword Expressions: Insights from a Multi-lingual Perspective

Coordinators/editors: Manfred Sailer, Stella Markantonatou

Content:

Multiword expressions (MWE) are not only a challenge for natural language applications, they also present a challenge to linguistic theory. There is a rich body of primarily descriptive work on MWEs for many European languages, but there is little comparative work in this area.

The volume attempts to bring together MWE experts with individual
languages as their background to explore the benefits of a
multilingual perspective on MWEs, for both computational and theoretical linguistics.

Possible topics for contributions include:

A) Classifications:

– What is the purpose of a particular classification? For instance, parsing, retrieving, cognitive representation, learning, other. How well do classifications serve their purposes?

-Are different classifications with different purposes related to each other? For instance, would patterns of the type V_PP (defined for retrieval) be useful to parsing as well?

– How does the purpose of classification influence the classification itself?

– How do theoretical frameworks influence MWE classifications in terms of coverage? Can they be reusable?

– A multilingual template for MWE classification, discussing purposes, methodological issues (how such a template can be constructed) The questions asked for the monolingual classifications apply here as well.

– Comparison of MWE templates/classifications for several languages (taking into account the purpose of the classification, the theoretical framework, …)

B) Tests for classification:

– What do individual “transformations”/tests tell us about an MWE? Is there a difference among different languages? (such as passivization, internal modification, pronominalization, participation to long distance dependency phenomena, control and binding phenomena)

– Morphological flexibility

– Is there a connection between semantic and syntactic flexibility?

C) Special types of MWEs (empirical description and consequences for theory or computational modelling):

– MWEs with expletives (“hurry it up”, “wing it”, …)
– MWEs with non-canonical internal structure
– MWEs with clitics

D) Cross-linguistic comparison of MWE types

– MWE inventories relate to general properties of a language (for example differences between MWE inventories in satellite-framed vs. verb-framed languages)

– Strategies for forming MWEs, for instance comparison of Indo-European languages with Semitic languages

– Comparison between MWE types in spoken and signed languages

Submission:

We invite the submission of outlines of papers (2 pages) by December 31, 2014.

The outline should clearly express the topic and, ideally, the multi-lingual aspect (for example why considering different languages is central for the topic or how the presented approach could be relevant for MWEs in other languages as well).

Selected outlines will be presented and discussed during the spring meeting of the Working Group “Lexicon-Grammar Interface” of the COST Action IC 1207 PARSEME (Parsing Multiword Expressions) in Malta (March 19-20, 2015).
Reimbursement for participation at this meeting might be available for authors of selected outlines according to COST regulations. Please contact the editors for details.

Submissions should mention “MWE Volume” in the subject line and be sent to
parseme-wg1-book@english-linguistics.de

Contact: Manfred Sailer (Frankfurt) and Stella Markantonatou (Athens) at parseme-wg1-book@english-linguistics.de

Preliminary schedule:

November 2014: Call for contributions sent out

December 31, 2014: Deadline for the “contribution proposals”

Mid January 2015: Notification

March 19-20, 2015 (Parseme meeting in Malta): Presentation and discussion of the contribution proposals. Finding co-authors for contributions

Mid June 2015: deadline for first versions of the papers

End of July 2015: comments, notifications of acceptance sent out

September 23-24, 2015 (Parseme meeting in Iasi): discussion of the first versions and finalization of the outline and concept of the book.

December 2015: deadline for final versions

CFP Corpus Linguistics 2015: In honour of the life and work of Geoffrey Leech Lancaster University 21-24 July 2014

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Through Dr. Michael Pace-Sigge

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Corpus Linguistics 2015: In honour of the life and work of Geoffrey Leech

Call for Papers and Pre-Conference Workshops

The eighth international Corpus Linguistics conference (CL2015) will be held at Lancaster University from Tuesday 21st July 2015 to Friday 24th July 2015. The main conference will be preceded by a workshop day on Monday 20th July.

This series of conferences began in 2001 with an event celebrating the career of Professor Geoffrey Leech, on the occasion of his retirement. In August of 2014, we reported with great sadness Geoff’s sudden death.

By dedicating this eighth conference in the Corpus Linguistics series once again to a celebration of Geoff’s life, his career, and his truly remarkable influence on the field, we once more pay tribute to, and commemorate, a remarkable intellect and a sorely-missed colleague and friend.

Conference themes and topics

The goals of the conference are:

. To gather together current and developing research in the study and application of corpus linguistics;
. To push the field forwards by promoting dialogue among the many different users of corpora across interconnected sub-disciplines of linguistics – be they descriptive, theoretical, applied or computational;
. To explore new challenges both within corpus linguistics, and in the extension of corpus approaches to new fields of study.

CL2015 will have three thematic streams and a general programme.

Stream A: A tribute to Geoffrey Leech

For this stream we invite contributions using corpus methods in any of the branches of linguistics with which Geoffrey Leech’s research was especially closely associated, namely:

. Pragmatics
. Stylistics
. Description of English grammar and grammatical change
. Grammatical annotation of corpus texts

Stream B: Discourse, Politics and Society

For this stream we invite contributions in the following areas:

. The use of corpora in discourse analysis
. Corpus approaches to the study of new media
. Applications of corpus approaches in the social sciences and humanities

Stream C: Language learning and teaching

For this stream we invite contributions in the following areas:

. Learner corpus research
. Corpus-based work in English language teaching, including ESP and EAP
. Use of corpora in second language acquisition studies
. Data-driven learning
. Development of learner materials

General Programme

For the general programme, we invite contributions on as broad and inclusive a basis as possible. The areas in which we particularly welcome submissions include but are not limited to:

. Corpus methodology:
o Critical explorations of existing measures and methods in corpus linguistics;
o New methods and techniques in corpus development, annotation and analysis;
o New tools and techniques developed in corpus-based computational linguistics;
o Advances in quantitative techniques.
. Theoretical corpus linguistics:
o The interface between corpus and linguistic theory;
o Syntax, morphology, semantics;
o Psycholinguistic and cognitive explorations;
o Multi-lingual comparative and contrastive analysis;
o Historical linguistics.
. Lexis and lexicon:
o Lexicography;
o Collocation and meaning in context.
. Sociolinguistics, language variation and applied linguistics:
o Regional and social variation in language;
o Code-switching and bilingualism;
o Forensic linguistics;
o Genre, register and textual variation.

Plenary speakers

We are delighted to announce that the following speakers have accepted our invitation to give plenary lectures at CL2015:

. Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University, USA)
. Sylviane Granger (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
. Michaela Mahlberg (University of Nottingham, UK)
. Alan Partington (Università di Bologna, Italy)

Call for pre-conference workshops

As noted above, CL2015 will include a workshop day on Monday 20th July 2015. We hereby issue a call for workshop proposals on any theme relevant to the conference.

“Workshops” may take two main forms.

The first type is the colloquium-style workshop, which operates as a mini-conference with its own programme committee and call for papers to be presented: proposals for this type of workshop should specify the scope of the workshop, who its organisers will be, and whether the creation of workshop proceedings is envisaged. Proposals should also provide an initial version of the text of the call for papers.

The other main type of workshop is a practical or applied workshop providing a demonstration of or training in some particular corpus linguistic technique or piece of software. In this case the proposal must explain the content of the workshop, provide an initial version of the text of a call for participation, and give an indication of the workshop’s IT requirements, if any.

We are also happy to consider innovative forms of workshop intermediate between colloquium-style workshop and practical workshop.

All proposals must in addition specify the proposed running time. Our timetable allows for the following lengths of workshop:

. Full-day workshop – up to 7 hours (plus lunch/breaks)
. Half-day workshop – up to 3.5 hours (plus break)
. Short workshop – up to 2 hours (single session)

There is no fixed format for workshop proposals, as long as they include all the details specified above. Proposals should be sent by email to Andrew Hardie by 15th December. We are happy to respond to informal expressions of interest in advance of formal submission of a proposal.

Call for papers, posters and panels

We invite submission of abstracts for papers, posters and panels on any topic relevant to the conference themes.

For this conference, we are requesting extended abstracts (750-1500 words), as we do not plan to produce a volume of conference proceedings. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the conference programme committee.

Paper presentations will consist of a 20 minute talk followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Please note: paper submissions should present either complete research, or research in progress where at least some substantial results have been achieved. Work in progress which has yet to produce results can instead be submitted as a poster abstract.

Submissions for panel discussions should take the form of a single 1500 word abstract on behalf of all speakers to be on the panel. The abstract should include a note to specify whether the panel is intended to be 1 hour or 1.5 hours in length.

Submissions for poster presentations should be shorter (400-750 words). We especially welcome poster abstracts that (a) report on innovative research that is in its very earliest phases (b) report on new software or corpus data resources.

We especially encourage abstract submissions from early-career researchers, including postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers.

All abstracts must be submitted via the conference website; the submission system is now live (see http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2015/call.php ). Details on how to submit an abstract to a specific conference stream are available on the website.

Key dates

. End October 2014 – call for papers; call for proposals for pre-conference workshops
. 7th January 2015 – deadline for abstract submission
. 16th January 2015 – earlybird registration opens
. 24th January 2015 – all abstract review outcomes will be returned by this date
. 30th March 2015 – end of earlybird registration (rates rise)
. 21st June 2015 – end of main registration (late registration not guaranteed, though we’ll try)
. 21st June 2015 – final deadline for cancellation with refund of registration fees
. 20th July 2015 – pre-conference workshop day
. 21st July to 24th July 2015 – main conference

General information

For information on registration, accommodation travel etc., see the conference website: http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2015 ; email: cl2015@lancaster.ac.uk

The conference is hosted by the UCREL research centre (http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk), which brings together the Department of Linguistics and English Language (http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/) with the School of Computing and Communications (http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/).

Local organising committee of CL 2015: Andrew Hardie (chair), Tony McEnery, Paul Rayson.