Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
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
Why is legal language so complicated? Legislative drafters and linguists compare notes Wednesday 29 June 2016, 14.00 to 17.30 Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR Description: The last decades have witnessed important innovations in legislative drafting but have we succeeded in producing perfect laws? Just because a bill … Read more
From the Forensic Linguistics e-mail list :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Symposium on “Expertise in Language and Law” will take place on Friday 27th November 2015. This Symposium is part of the Advanced Research Residency in Language and Law which takes place at Cardiff University from October to December this year. The full program me of events is … Read more
Yukio Tono Linguistic feature extraction and evaluation using machine learning to identify “criterial” grammar constructions for the CEFR levels L2 learner profile English Profile – CEFR for Englsih Criterial features: Hawkins & Filipovic 2012 CEFR-J RLD Project: aim prepare list of vocabulary and grammar item to be taught and assessed at each CEFR level CEFR … Read more
This talk discusses some of our findings in Pérez-Paredes, P., & Sánchez Tornel, M. (2015). A multidimensional analysis of learner language during story reconstruction in interviews. In M. Callies & S. Götz (Eds.), Learner Corpora in Language Testing and Assessment. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. A contrastive analysis of native and non-native speaker interviews from Pascual … Read more