21.5101, Calls: Language Acquisition, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Belgium

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Subject: 21.5101, Calls: Language Acquisition, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Belgium

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Date: 15-Dec-2010
From: Sylviane Granger [sylviane.granger at uclouvain.be]
Subject: 20 Years of Learner Corpus Research

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Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:36:47
From: Sylviane Granger [sylviane.granger at uclouvain.be]
Subject: 20 Years of Learner Corpus Research

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Full Title: 20 Years of Learner Corpus Research 

Date: 15-Sep-2011 - 17-Sep-2011
Location: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium 
Contact Person: Sylviane Granger
Meeting Email: sylviane.granger at uclouvain.be

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 27-Dec-2010 

Meeting Description:

'20 Years of Learner Corpus Research: Looking Back, Moving Ahead'

To mark the 20th anniversary of its creation, the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics of the University of Louvain is organizing a conference entitled '20 Years of Learner Corpus Research: Looking Back, Moving Ahead' in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) on 15-17 September 2011. 

Learner corpus research (LCR) is a young but vibrant new brand of research which stands at a crossroads between corpus linguistics, second language acquisition and foreign language teaching. Its origins go back to the late 1980s when academics and publishers, concurrently but independently, started collecting data from foreign/second language learners with a view to advancing our understanding of the mechanisms of second language acquisition and/or developing pedagogical tools and methods that more accurately target the needs of language learners. At first limited to English as a Foreign Language, LCR has begun to spread to a wide range of languages and as a result, the community group of learner corpus researchers is rapidly growing and diversifying. Great advances have been made in learner corpus design, collection and annotation, and the range of learner data has expanded with the addition of spoken and multimedia learner corpora. The field has also greatly benefited from growing links with related disciplines - in particular, second language acquisition, teaching methodology, contrastive linguistics, cognitive linguistics, lexicography, language testing and natural language processing. 

Although twenty years after its emergence, it is too early to render a definitive assessment of the achievements in the field, it is time to take stock of the advances that have been made in methodology, theory, analysis and applications, and think up creative ways of moving the field forward. LCR2011 is meant to bring together all the researchers who collect, annotate, analyze computer learner corpora and/or use them to inform SLA theory or develop learner-corpus-informed tools (courseware, proficiency tests, automatic spell- and grammar-checkers, etc.). 

Keynote Speakers:

We are pleased to announce that the following speakers have accepted our invitation to give a keynote presentation at the conference:

Prof. Angela Chambers, University of Limerick, Ireland 
Prof. Nick Ellis, University of Michigan, USA 
Prof. Detmar Meurers, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Prof. Joybrato Mukherjee, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Prof. Florence Myles, Newcastle University, Great Britain
Prof. Norbert Schmitt, University of Nottingham, Great Britain 

Call for Papers:

Conference Themes

We particularly welcome papers that address the relevance of learner corpus research to:

Cognitive linguistics
Discourse studies
(e-)lexicography
Grammar and syntax
Language for academic/specific purposes
Language varieties 
Lexicology and phraseology
Natural language processing 
Second language acquisition
Second/foreign language teaching

We also encourage the submission of papers addressing the links between learner corpus research and other research methodologies (e.g. experimental methods) and introducing innovative annotation techniques.

There will be four different categories of presentation:

- Full paper (20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion)
- Short paper (10 minutes + 5 minutes for discussion)
- Software demonstration (20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion)
- Poster

The posters are intended to present research still at a preliminary stage and on which researchers would like to get feedback.

The conference aims to be a showcase for the latest developments in the field and will feature both software demos and a book exhibition.

Thematic Sessions:

The conference will also feature three thematic sessions, for which submissions are invited. 

1) Language for Specific Purposes Learner Corpora (convenor: Magali Paquot)

The 'Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) Learner Corpora' thematic session aims to bring together researchers that are particularly interested in the collection, annotation and analysis of LSP learner corpora and their practical applications. 

2) Learner Corpora and Cognitivism (convenor: Fanny Meunier)

The "Learner Corpora and Cognitivism" thematic session aims to bring together researchers working with learner corpora (either as their main source of data or in combination with other data types) to help account for cognitive processes at play in second language acquisition. 

3) Learner Corpora and World Englishes (convenor: Gaetanelle Gilquin)

The aim of the "Learner Corpora and World Englishes" thematic session is to bring the fields of SLA and World Englishes one step closer to each other by examining the possible links and synergies between Learner Englishes and indigenised varieties of English, as they emerge from corpora. 

More details about each of these thematic sessions can be found on the conference website ( http://www.uclouvain.be/en-cecl-lcr2011.html).

Language of the Conference:

English

Abstracts:

Your abstract should be between 500 and 700 words (+ list of references) and must specify how the paper will contribute to the theme of the conference. It should also provide a clear outline of the aim of the paper including clearly articulated research question(s), some details about research approach and methods and (preliminary) results. 

Abstracts should be sent by e-mail to lcr2011 at uclouvain.be, before 27 December 2010. Under subject, please write ''lcr2011 abstract''. Please name the attachment as follows: lcr2011_yourlastname_yourfirstname.doc.

Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by the scientific committee. You will be notified of the outcome of the review process by 14 February 2011.

For purposes of easy editing, please make use of the MS Word template made available on the conference website for submitting your abstract. The template consists of two pages. The first page asks you to specify your affiliation details accompanied by a brief bio note (75 words). The second page is reserved for your anonymous abstract which will be sent to two reviewers.

Key Dates:

- Deadline for submission of abstracts: 27 December 2010
- Notification of acceptance/rejection: 14 February 2011
- Conference: 15-17 September 2011

Organising Committee:

Sylvie De Cock
Gaetanelle Gilquin (chair)
Diane Goossens
Sylviane Granger (chair)
Damien Littre
Fanny Meunier (chair)
JoAnne Neff van Aertselaer 
Magali Paquot
Natassia Schutz
Jennifer Thewissen

Scientific Committee:

Annelie Adel (Stockholm University)
Ulrike Altendorf (Leibniz-Universitat Hannover)
Inge Bartning (Stockholm University)
Tony Berber Sardinha (Sao Paulo Catholic University)
Yves Bestgen (Universite catholique de Louvain)
Marcus Callies (Johannes-Gutenberg Universitat Mainz)
Tom Cobb (Université de Quebec a Montreal)
Ulla Connor (Indiana University-Purdue University)
Sabine De Knop (Facultes Universitaires Saint-Louis)
Liesbeth Degand (Universite catholique de Louvain)
Pieter de Haan (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
John Flowerdew (City University of Hong Kong)
Lynne Flowerdew (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Thierry Fontenelle (Centre de traduction des organes de l'Union europeenne) 
Stefan Th. Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara) 
Nicholas Groom (University of Birmingham)
Hilde Hasselgard (University of Oslo)
Marlyse Horst (Concordia University)
Susan Hunston (University of Birmingham)
Scott Jarvis (Ohio University)
Natalie Kubler (Universite Paris-Diderot)
Claudia Leacock (Butler Hill Group)
Geoffrey Leech (Lancaster University)
Marie-Aude Lefer (Institut Libre Marie-Haps & Universite catholique de Louvain)
Anke Ludeling (Humboldt-Universitat Berlin)
Maria Jose Luzon (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Carla Marello (Universita di Torino)
Iliana Martinez (Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto)
Amaya Mendikoetxea (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
Hilary Nesi (Coventry University)
Nadja Nesselhauf (Universitat Heidelberg) 
Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (Oslo University)
Lourdes Ortega (University of Hawaii at Manoa) 
John Osborne (Universite de Savoie) 
Magali Paquot (Universite catholique de Louvain) 
Mojca Pecman (Universite Paris Diderot - Paris 7)
Virginia Pulcini (Universita degli Studi di Torino)
Paul Rayson (UCREL, Lancaster University) 
Ute Romer (University of Michigan)
Michael Rundell (Lexicography MasterClass Ltd)
Kari Tenfjord (University of Bergen)
Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham)
Yukio Tono (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Christopher Tribble (King's College London)
Agnès Tutin (Universite Stendhal Grenoble 3)
Bertus van Rooy (North-West University) 
Nina Vyatkina (Kansas University)
Michael Zock (CNRS - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale)

Conference Website: 

http://www.uclouvain.be/en-cecl-lcr2011.html

Contact: 

lcr2011 at uclouvain.be

For sponsoring options, please contact 

Sylviane Granger 
sylviane.granger at uclouvain.be

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