Category Archives: Conferences

Plenary: From data literacy to AI literacy: examining engagement with corpora and technology in language education

Prof Pascual Pérez-Paredes will deliver a keynote at the 2nd EUt+ International Conference on Languages  EUt LC 2024 -Merging New Trends and Consolidating Good Practices in Languages for Specific Purposes – UPCT, Cartagena, Spain, June 26-28, 2024

Abstract

In this talk, I discuss recent developments in what I have described elsewhere as Broad scope DDL (BsDDL) (Pérez-Paredes, 2024), an alternative approach that situates learners’ learning ecology (Pérez-Paredes, 2022b) at the centre of a learning process and where a variety of language data sources such as corpora, Gen AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) coexist. This ecology acknowledges the important role of new digital literacies and the symbolically mediated practices involving different types of knowledge and skills when engaged with texts in electronically mediated environments (Kern, 2021).

References

Boulton, A. (2021). Research in data-driven learning. In Pérez-Paredes, P., & Mark, G. (Eds.) Beyond concordance lines: Corpora in language education. John Benjamins, pp.9-34.

Boulton, A., & Cobb, T. (2017). Corpus use in language learning: A meta‐analysis. Language learning, 67(2), 348-393.

Boulton, A., & Vyatkina, N. (2021). Thirty years of data-driven learning: Taking stock and charting new directions over time. Language, Learning & Technology, 25(3), 66-89.

Boulton, A., & Vyatkina, N. (2023). Expanding Methodological Approaches in DDL Research. TESOL Quarterly.

British Council, The. (2023). Artificial intelligence and English language teaching: Preparing for the future. URL: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/publications/case-studies-insights-and-research/artificial-intelligence-and-english-language

Curry, N., Baker, P., & Brookes, G. (2024). Generative AI for corpus approaches to discourse studies: a critical evaluation of ChatGPT. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 4(1).

Kern, R. (2021). Twenty-five years of digital literacies in CALL. Language Learning & Technology, 25(3), 132–150.

Mizumoto, A. (2023). Data-driven Learning Meets Generative AI: Introducing the Framework of Metacognitive Resource Use. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 3(3), 100074.

Pérez-Paredes, P. (2010). Corpus Linguistics and Language Education in Perspective: Appropriation and the Possibilities Acenario. In T. Harris & M. Moreno Jaén (Eds.), Corpus Linguistics in Language Teaching (pp. 53-73). Peter Lang.

Pérez-Paredes, P. (2022a). A systematic review of the uses and spread of corpora and data-driven learning in CALL research during 2011–2015. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 35(1-2), 36-61.

Pérez-Paredes, P. (2022b). How learners use corpora. In R. R. Jablonkai & E. Csomay (Eds). The Routledge Handbook of Corpora and English Language Teaching and Learning (pp. 390-405). Routledge.

Pérez-Paredes, P. (2024) Data-driven learning in informal contexts? Embracing Broad Data-driven learning (BDDL) research. In Crosthwaite, P. (Ed.). Corpora for Language Learning: Bridging the Research-Practice Divide. Routledge.

16th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference. Manchester Metropolitan University, July 7-10 2024

Conference Website: https://talc2024.co.uk/

Call for Papers: https://talc2024.co.uk/call-for-papers/

Plenary Speakers

  • Prof. Silvia Bernardini, University of Bologna
  • Dr Philip Durrant, University of Exeter
  • Prof. Fiona Farr, University of Limerick
  • Prof. Bethany Gray, Iowa State University
  • Prof. Tony McEnery, Lancaster University

Important Dates

  • Abstract submission opens: 10th November 2023
  • Abstract submission closes: 12th January 2024 at 11pm UTC.

ICAME45 – Universidad de Vigo – 18-22 June 2024

International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English – ICAME 45 – Interlocking Corpora and Register(s): Diversity and Innovation 

Submission instructions:

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
The call for abstracts will close on 1 December 2023. Notification of acceptance will be sent out in early February 2024.

Abstracts should be between 400 and 500 words (excluding references) and should clearly state research question(s), approach, data, method, and (expected) results. Submission should be anonymous and via EasyAbs.

Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts if at least one paper is co-authored.

We invite abstracts for the following presentation formats:
– Full paper: 20 + 10 mins discussion
– Short paper/Work-in-progress report: 10 + 5 mins discussion
– Software demonstration: 20 + 10 mins discussion
– Poster: on display for the duration of the conference and brief presentations (c.5 mins) during a special session. Maximum A0 size (portrait).

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
We also invite proposals for pre-conference workshops on Tuesday 18 June 2024. If you would like to convene a workshop, please send your proposal by 15 November 2023 directly to the organisers <icame45@uvigo.gal>.

The proposal should contain the title of the workshop, name and contact details of the organisers and of the proposed participants, and a short description of the topics to be discussed (between 400 and 700 words, excluding references). If the workshop is accepted, workshop conveners will be responsible for putting the individual abstracts together, including peer reviewing. This should be completed and notified to the conference organisers before 15 January 2024.

URL: https://icame45.webs.uvigo.es/

International Conference for Learner Corpus Research LCR 2024 Tartu 26-28 September 2024 

Keynote speakers: 

    Gaëtanelle Gilquin (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) 
    Ilmari Ivaska (Turun Yliopisto, Finland) 
    Cristóbal Lozano (Universidad de Granada, Spain) 

Event Details: 

Date: 26-28 September 2024 
Location: Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures and the Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics. University of Tartu, Estonia. 
Topics: Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:  
        Language for academic purposes  
        Language for specific purposes  
        Language teaching, assessment and testing  
        Learner corpus-based SLA studies  
        Corpora as pedagogical resources  
        Multimodal learner corpora  
        Software for learner corpus analysis  
        Corpus-based translation studies  
        English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI)  
        English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)  
        Data mining and other explorative approaches to learner corpora  
        Statistical methods in learner corpus studies  
        Discourse analysis and pragmatics  
        Studies related to lexis: semantics, metaphor, etc.  
        NLP approaches  
        Complexity, accuracy and/or fluency (CAF) analysis  

Abstracts:  

A short summary of the intended presentation, capturing the central idea along with the research questions, methods of research and the (possibly tentative) key conclusions, also citing any relevant previous work or theoretical background of the field. Limited to 300 words, excluding keywords and references . Anonymous: the abstract itself should hold no reference to the author or their affiliation  

Further information is available at our webpage:https://lcr2024.ut.ee/main__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!TUReXuBJrwvE8MwfDBbsYfDDv-8M-oqLj0P7oyev5SizIbp9MEDJtjrXsNNs5Xsv4AcNKfUqCXd0LcAsG_s$

Contact information: lcr2024@ut.ee

Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC) 2022 deadline has been extended to February 7th 2022

The Call for Papers deadline for Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC) 2022 been extended to February 7th 2022

The TaLC 2022 conference will place 13th-16th July 2022 at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

Plenary speakers: Michael McCarthy, Fanny Meunier, Shelley Staples and Henry Tyne

Links:

Call for Papers

Submission link for abstracts

Conference website

Conference registration opens on February 21st 2022