Workshop on corpus methods for SLA research - Southampton (UK) - January 2008

[Dominguez L.]

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Workshop on corpus methods for SLA research.
Date: 25 January 2008
Location: University of Southampton (United Kingdom)
Organisers: Ros Mitchell, Laura Domínguez, María J. Arche, Antonia Perez 
(University of Southampton); Florence Myles (University of Newcastle); Emma 
Marsden (University of York)
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This workshop will present a new corpus of spoken L2 Spanish (Spanish Language 
learner Oral Corpus: SPLLOC), and review the potential contribution of learner 
corpora to SLA research. The corpus has been created through an ESRC funded
project at the universities of Southampton, Newcastle and York. It consists of 
samples of learner speech in a variety of genres, from beginners to advanced. 
The conventions and software of the CHILDES project ( http://childes.psy.cmu.edu 
) have been used for transcription and part of speech tagging of the corpus. The 
programme includes presentations from members of the SPLLOC team about the
corpus design and associated research programme, and a hands-on workshop 
demonstrating CHILDES programmes for data analysis.
Workshop programme: 

1000-1030 Coffee and registration


1030-1200 Presentations by SPLLOC team members:
* L2 corpus design
* Researching acquisition of Spanish word order 
* Researching acquisition of Spanish clitic pronouns 
* Researching lexical development in Spanish L2
1200-1300 Discussion: Contribution of learner corpora to SLA (led by discussant
Prof Amaya Mendikoetxea, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) 

1300-1400 LUNCH

1400-1600 Hands on workshop: using CHILDES for SLA
1600-1630 Concluding discussion.


Location: The workshop will take place at the Avenue Campus, University of
Southampton, UK. For maps and directions see 
http://www.soton.ac.uk/about/whereissoton/index.html .
Registration: Registration is FREE, but numbers will be limited (maximum 30
participants). To reserve a place at the workshop please contact:
Antonia Perez, SPLLOC Project Administrator
School of Humanities/ Modern Languages
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ
UK
Email: ap1u06 at soton.ac.uk

Accommodation: We cannot make accommodation bookings but information on local 
hotels and guest houses is available at
http://www.soton.ac.uk/accommodation/docs/Guest%20House%20List%202006.pdf 



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