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<div align="center">The <b>LONGDALE</b> project -
<b>LONG</b>itudinal <b>DA</b>tabase of <b>L</b>earner <b>E</b>nglish<br>
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Dear all,<br><br>
The <i>Centre for English Corpus Linguistics</i> of the University of
Louvain (Belgium) is launching a new international learner corpus
initiative, the <b>LONGDALE </b>project. The aim of the project is to
build a large <b>longitudinal</b> database of learner English containing
data from learners from a wide range of mother tongue backgrounds.The
term ‘database' rather than ‘corpus' is used here as our aim is to
collect a wide range of data types, from fairly uncontrolled data such as
argumentative essays, narratives or informal interviews to more guided
types in the form of summaries or picture descriptions. <br><br>
If you are interested in joining this new venture and contributing to
LONGDALE, do get in touch with me or one of the LONGDALE team
members.<br><br>
<a href="http://juppiter.fltr.ucl.ac.be/FLTR/GERM/ETAN/CECL/LONGDALE.html" eudora="autourl">
http://juppiter.fltr.ucl.ac.be/FLTR/GERM/ETAN/CECL/LONGDALE.html</a><br>
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Best regards,<br><br>
Sylviane Granger<br>
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Professor Sylviane Granger<br>
Université catholique de Louvain<br>
Centre for English Corpus Linguistics<br>
Place Blaise Pascal 1<br>
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve<br>
Belgium<br>
<a href="http://cecl.fltr.ucl.ac.be/" eudora="autourl">
http://cecl.fltr.ucl.ac.be<br><br>
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