Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
CFP | KESA 2015 | April 19 – 24, 2015 – Barcelona, SpainKESA 2015, The International Workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Semantic Annotation Through LinkedIn Corpus linguistics Group Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriategroups the following opportunity to submit and publish originalscientific results to KESA 2015.The submission deadline is November 24, … Read more
LCR 2015 Call for Papers @LCR2015 Book of abstracts available Following the successful initial conference in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) in 2011, and the second conference in Bergen (Norway) in 2013, the third conference in this biannual series will be hosted by Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, from September 11-13, 2015. See the conference website http://www.ru.nl/lcr2015/ for more … Read more
This Conference is intended as a gathering for corpus linguists working on any aspect of the English language and concerned with corpora issues. The main issues that this conference aims at debating are: – the use and reliability of a corpus in the hypothesis-building process – the use of corpora in linguistics courses or in … Read more
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
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
LINDSEI-TR: A New Spoken Corpus of Advanced Learners of EnglishBy Abdurrahman Kilimci Cukurova University, Faculty of Education, English Language Teaching Department, Balcalı, Adana, Turkey Abstract The aim of the present study is to describe the LINDSEI-TR, the Turkish component of the LINDSEI (the Louvain International Database of Spoken English), which was initiated to compile a … Read more