Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
************************* Through the BAAL mail list ************************* The International Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017 will take place from Monday 24 to Friday 28 July at the University of Birmingham. Opening plenary Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham Keynote speakers Susan Conrad (Portland State University, US) Andrew Hardie (Lancaster University, UK) Christian Mair (University of Freiburg, Germany) … Read more
Corpus types and uses B Murphy, E Riordan – The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and …, 2016 … 2008). Another is the SACODEYL corpus, which includes transcribed interviews with British, German, French, Italian Spanish, Lithuanian and Romanian adolescents between 13 and 18 years of age (Hoffstaedter and Kohn 2009). … The Routledge … Read more
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
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
Cambridge Language Sciences Initiative Speakers: Dr Teresa Parodi (Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics) and Dr Pascual Perez-Paredes (Faculty of Education) -Longitudinal corpora of untutored learners Teresa Parodi, Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics -Noun Phrases in Spanish young learners of EFL: insights from the International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage (ICCI) Pascual Pérez-Paredes, RSLE, … Read more
Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCL), issue 4 (2016)(Official journal of the Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics AELINCO)Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCL, ISSN 2243-4712), the official journal of the Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics AELINCO, is a peer-reviewed international scientific journal published annually, aiming at the publication of original research based on corpus data from different … Read more