The Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC) conference is a biennial event. Here is a list of the editions of the TaLC conference, along with the year and the university where it took place. In bold, those editions I attended.
Volumes published with selected research from the conferences are also included.
1994 – Lancaster University, UK. Teaching and Language Corpora. Originally published in 1997. Routledge new edition 2013.
1996 – Lancaster University, UK
1998 – Keble College, Oxford, UK
2000 – Graz, Austria
2002 – Bertinoro, Italy
2004 – 6th TaLC Conference. Granada, Spain. Hidalgo, E., Quereda, L. & Santana, J. (eds.) (2007). Corpora in the foreign language classroom. Rodopi.
2006 – Paris, France
2008 – Lisbon, Portugal
2010 – Brno, Czech Republic
2012 – 10th TalC Conference. Warsaw, Poland Leńko-Szymańska, A. & Boulton, A. (eds.). (2015) Multiple Affordances of Language Corpora for Data-driven Learning. John Benjamins.
2014 – 11th TalC Conference. Lancaster University, UK
2016 – 12th TalC Conference. Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
2018 – 13th TalC Conference. University of Cambridge, UK (URL) Pérez-Paredes, P. & Mark, G. (eds.) (2021). Beyond concordance lines: applications of corpora in language education. John Benjamins. And Charles, M., & Frankenberg-Garcia, A. (2021). Corpora in ESP/EAP Writing Instruction. Routledge London.
2020 – 14th TalC Conference.University of Perpignan (held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
2022 – 15th TalC Conference. University of Limerick, Ireland (URL)
2024- 16th TalC Conference. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK (URL)
2026-17th TalC Conference. Universidad de Extremadura, Spain. (URL)
According to McEnery & Wilson (1997), the first TALC was organized by a committee composed of (in alphabetical order) Steve Fligelstone, Gerry Knowles, Tony McEnery and Anne Wichmann.