29.4607, Confs: Text/Corpus Linguistics/United Kingdom

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-4607. Tue Nov 20 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.4607, Confs: Text/Corpus Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 02:36:55
From: Zoe Broisson [z.broisson at lancaster.ac.uk]
Subject: Understanding Collocations I: Applications for Language Teaching and Research

 
Understanding Collocations I: Applications for Language Teaching and Research 

Date: 07-Dec-2018 - 07-Dec-2018 
Location: Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom 
Contact: Zoe Broisson 
Contact Email: z.broisson at lancaster.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://cass.lancs.ac.uk/mycalendar-events/?event_id1=64 

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS), Lancaster
University is organising a free half-day seminar on collocations. This seminar
is a part of a two-part series and offers a combination of two lectures, a
practical session and a discussion forum. The practical session focuses on
corpus approaches to identification and visualisation of collocations. A guest
speaker at the seminar is Prof. Frank Boers from Western University, Canada.

The attendance is free, but registration in advance is required if you want to
attend in person since the number of places is limited. There is no need to
register if you are following the seminar on Twitter. 

The seminar will be LIVE STREAMED ON TWITTER: @CorpusSocialSci
To tweet us questions, use #LancasterCollocations
 

Program:

12:30pm - 1pm Registration: Management school Hub

1-2pm Dr. Vaclav Brezina and Dr. Dana Gablasova: Corpus approaches to
collocation: Challenges and opportunities

2:15pm -3:30pm Identifying collocations with #LancsBox (practical session)

3:30pm-4:00pm Coffee break

4:15pm - 5:15pm Prof. Frank Boers: Ways of helping learners acquire multiword
expressions in a second language: A critical review

5:15pm - 6:00pm General discussion





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