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<div align="center">CALL FOR PARTICIPATION<br>
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EASTER SCHOOL<br>
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Learner Corpus Research: Theory and Applications<br>
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3-7 April 2006<br>
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium<br>
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Organised by the <br>
Centre for English Corpus Linguistics<br>
University of Louvain<br>
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We still have a few places available for the Easter School on learner
corpus research that will take place at the Centre for English Corpus
Linguistics, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), from 3 to 7 April 2006. <br>
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The aim of the Easter School is to introduce learner corpus research
through a series of lectures, workshops and hands-on sessions. It is
intended both for researchers who have recently embarked on a learner
corpus project and those who simply want to know more about this new
field of research. <br>
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COURSE DIRECTOR:<b> </b>Professor Sylviane Granger, Director of the
Centre for English Corpus Linguistics <br>
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</b>LECTURERS: Sylviane Granger, Fanny Meunier, Gaėtanelle
Gilquin<br>
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LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION:<b> </b>English<br>
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</b>NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS:<b> </b>c. 25<br>
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VENUE: University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve<br>
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TOPICS COVERED IN THE LECTURES:<br>
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- Learner corpus collection (written and spoken data): corpus design
criteria and markup<br>
- Learner corpus annotation (POS-tagging and error tagging)<br>
- Computer-aided analysis of lexis, grammar and discourse<br>
- Learner corpora and Second Language Acquisition research<br>
- Pedagogical applications of learner corpora (dictionaries, teaching
materials, CALL programs, testing)<br>
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PARALLEL WORKSHOPS:<br>
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</b>- Automated extraction and analysis of phraseological units<br>
- Relevance of corpus-based contrastive studies for learner corpus
research<br>
- PERL programming<br>
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</b>HANDS-ON IN COMPUTER LAB: <br>
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- International Corpus of Learner English CD-ROM<br>
- University of Louvain Error Editor<br>
- Text retrieval software programs (concordancers)<br>
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More information, including registration form, on
<a href="http://cecl.fltr.ucl.ac.be/EasterSchool2006/welcome.html" eudora="autourl">
http://cecl.fltr.ucl.ac.be/EasterSchool2006/welcome.html</a> <br>
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