27.439, Calls: Lang Acq, Text/Corpus Ling/Netherlands

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Subject: 27.439, Calls: Lang Acq, Text/Corpus Ling/Netherlands

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 11:22:32
From: Bert Le Bruyn [b.s.w.lebruyn at uu.nl]
Subject: Learner Corpus Based Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

Full Title: Learner Corpus Based Approaches to Second Language Acquisition 

Date: 31-Mar-2017 - 01-Apr-2017
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Bert Le Bruyn
Meeting Email: b.s.w.lebruyn at uu.nl
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/learnercorporameetsla/ 

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

Call Deadline: 11-Apr-2016 

Meeting Description:

The Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS will be hosting a two-day workshop on
‘Learner corpus based approaches to second language acquisition’ on 31 March –
1 April, 2017. 
As recently put by Myles (2015), “second language researchers have been rather
slow in taking advantage of learner corpora and their associated computerised
methodologies (…), and LCR (Learner Corpus Research) is not always fully
informed by SLA research, making collaboration between the two fields
sometimes more of a wish rather than a reality”. The main objective of the
workshop is to bring together SLA and LCR specialists to examine the
usefulness of learner corpus data for second language research and to assess
the relevance of SLA theory for learner corpus design and analysis.

We are pleased to announce that the following speakers have already accepted
our invitation to give a talk at the conference:
- Dora Alexopoulou (University of Cambridge)
- Sylviane Granger (Université catholique de Louvain)
- Tania Ionin (University of Illinois)
- Fanny Meunier (Université catholique de Louvain)
- Florence Myles (University of Essex)
- Jeanine Treffers-Däller (University of Reading)
- Nina Viyatkina (The University of Kansas)
- Stefanie Wulff (University of Florida)

Call for Papers: 

The event will mainly be structured around invited presentations but we have a
limited number of slots for additional presentations. We therefore welcome
contributions which focus on one or more of the following research directions:

- address SLA research questions with the help of learner corpus data and
corpus linguistic techniques
- test key constructs in SLA theory on the basis of learner corpus data
- carry out a learner corpus study and compare results with findings from
previous SLA studies that relied on more experimental techniques
- adopt a mixed method approach that involves learner corpus data as one of
the data types used
- revisit previous LCR studies in the light of SLA theory

We particularly like the idea that the workshop’s organization could serve as
a springboard for more active collaboration between SLA and LCR specialists.
We therefore strongly encourage collaborative proposals.

Abstracts (max. 500 words + references) should specify how the paper will
contribute to the theme of the workshop. 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 magali.paquot at uclouvain.be and
b.s.w.lebruyn at uu.nl, before 11 April 2016.

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