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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Learner Language, Learner Corpora – LLLC 2012</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">University of Oulu, Finland, October 5–6, 2012</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The aim of the conference ‘Learner language, learner corpora’ is to bring together researchers interested in second language acquisition and foreign language learning, and in particular those working with either or both learner corpora and the learning and teaching of Finno-Ugric (FU) languages as a second or foreign language.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The conference will be organised to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the VIRSU project and to introduce the ICLFI project. VIRSU seeks to create connections between all linguists working with any of the Finno-Ugric target (foreign or second) languages or the language situations in the countries where Finno-Ugric languages are spoken.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The ICLFI project in turn focuses on identifying general tendencies or universals that are present in learner language regardless of the learner's mother tongue. The project hosts the five year old ICLFI Corpus which is a multi-mother tongue corpus of learner Finnish.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The Programme Committee invites original presentations and posters especially on these general issues, including but not limited to:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">FU languages as target languages<BR>
Learning and teaching of related languages<BR>
Receptive multilingualism<BR>
Morphology and morphosyntax in language learning and teaching<BR>
Phraseology and lexicon in language learning and teaching<BR>
Learner language universals<BR>
Learner language analysis, especially corpus analyses of FU languages<BR>
Learner corpus annotation and lemmatization<BR>
Corpora in language learning and teaching</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">For more information on the conference and abstract submission, please visit the conference web page</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.oulu.fi/hutk/sutvi/oppijankieli/LLLC/en/index.html"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://www.oulu.fi/hutk/sutvi/oppijankieli/LLLC/en/index.html</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">On behalf of the organizers,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Pirkko Muikku-Werner<BR>
Professor, Chair of the organizing committee<BR>
School of Humanities<BR>
University of Eastern Finland<BR>
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="mailto:pirkko.muikku-werner@uef.fi"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">pirkko.muikku-werner@uef.fi</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jarmo Harri Jantunen<BR>
Adjunct Professor, Chair of the organizing committee<BR>
Faculty of Humanities<BR>
University of Oulu<BR>
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="mailto:jarmo.jantunen@oulu.fi"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">jarmo.jantunen@oulu.fi</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
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