El congreso se celebrará los días 27 a 29 de abril de 2022 en la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Las conferencias plenarias estarán a cargo de Silvia Betti (Universidad de Bolonia), Marina Bondi (Universidad de Módena), María del Pilar García Mayo (Universidad del País Vasco) y de Istvan Kesckes (Universidad de Nueva York).
Como novedad en esta edición, existe un panel específico para estudiantes pre-doctorales que contará con una breve introducción sobre formatos de publicación científica.
This event offers a great opportunity for MA and PhD students to present their (in-progress) results, share ideas, receive feedback from senior researchers in the field, and further develop their professional networks. Senior researchers are welcome as delegates, helping to ensure the high quality of the event and foster the careers of Early Career Researchers.
The Learner Corpus Association (LCA) is an international association which aims to promote the field of learner corpus research and provide an interdisciplinary forum for all the researchers and professionals who are actively involved in the field or simply want to know more about it.
LCA supports the compilation of learner corpora (i.e. electronic collections of written and/or spoken language produced by foreign/second language learners) in a wide range of languages and the design of innovative methods and tools to analyze them. It seeks to link up learner corpus research to second language acquisition theory, first language acquisition theory and linguistic theory in general and to promote applications in fields including foreign language teaching, language testing and natural language processing (automated scoring, spell- and grammar-checking, L1 identification).
–Corpus Linguistics and the Analysis of L2 Spoken and Written Texts Dr Kris Kyle, University of Oregon 26 October, 19:00 (Madrid-Paris-Brussels-Berlin time) Zoom registration link
Productive lexical proficiency has been an important topic in applied linguistics for over 25 years (e.g., Crossley et al., 2011; Kyle & Crossley, 2015; Laufer & Nation, 1995). During this time, word frequency measures have played a dominant role (Laufer & Nation, 1995). While word frequency is undoubtedly important, a number of recent studies have demonstrated that lexical proficiency is most accurately modeled when multiple lexical and lexicogrammatical features are used (e.g., Kim et al., 2018; Kyle et al., 2018;). In this talk, an overview of selected measures of lexical proficiency at the word (e.g., concreteness, contextual diversity, lexical access, etc.) and lexicogrammatical (i.e., n-gram, dependency relations and verb-verb argument construction strength of association) level is provided. The use of these features is then highlighted in two learner corpus research studies.
Kristopher Kyle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Oregon. His research interests include second language acquisition, second language writing, and second language assessment. He is addresses these topics using corpus linguistic methods through the adaptation and development of natural language processing tools.
–Researching writing development with a corpus Dr Phil Durrant, University of Exeter 6 October 2021, 19:00 (Madrid time) – Register
Corpus research methods have much to offer the study of writing development, enabling reliable analysis of large samples of authentic learner writing and highlighting subtle developmental patterns that are difficult to detect by other means. While the increasing availability of corpora and of software for analysing them are opening up exciting new research possibilities, it is important to reflect on the methodological nature of such work and to consider what corpora can and cannot tell us about writing development. Drawing on both a large-scale literature review and a recent corpus project on school children’s writing in England, this presentation will explore how corpus measures of written language use can be employed and interpreted to inform studies of first and second language writing development.
Phil Durrant is Associate Professor of Language and Education at the University of Exeter. He previously taught English at language schools and universities in Turkey and the UK.
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.
The Executive Board of Arab Society of English language Studies (ASELS) in collaboration with the King Fahd School of Translation are pleased to announce the Call For Papers for the International Conference.
25-27 November 2014 at the King Fahd School of Translation, Tanger, Morocco, Abdel Malek Essaadi University.
A general Call For Paper has been posted at http://annual-conference.asels.org/call-for-papers/
Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) will publish a special peer-reviewed edition of this ASELS conference papers http://annual-conference.asels.org/publication/
Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups who might be interested in submitting contribution to our international conference.
Venue: King Fahad School of Translation, Tangier, Morocco
Conference Dates: 25 -27 November 2014
Abstract submission deadline: Tuesday 30th September 2014.
Notification of acceptance: Authors will receive an official notification of acceptance within a week after their submissions.
This time the organizers have chosen a new focus – Synergies of Language Learning. Now, the organisers will aim at focusing on showing the complementary nature of ESP and New Language Learning Technologies. Their first and foremost focus is English for Specific Purposes as the conference will be the continuation of presentation of best practices, current research, innovative methodology, and the like of this extremely complex and demanding field of language teaching.
