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</head><body><blockquote type="cite"><p><br><br>Dear colleagues,<br><br>We are pleased to announce that Justus Liebig University Giessen in Germany<br>will be hosting the 12th biannual Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC)<br>Conference to be held 20 July to 23 July 2016. The TaLC conferences offer an<br>important platform for researchers, teachers, practitioners and software<br>developers to share their ideas on how corpus resources and tools for<br>analysis can be useful in/for language teaching. They aim to promote<br>classroom applications of language corpora, data-driven learning, as well as<br>the creation of corpus-informed teaching materials and other resources, and<br>foster discussion between practitioners and theorists from all over the<br>world.<br><br>We cordially invite you to attend this conference and submit your abstracts<br>for presentations, posters, software demonstrations and pre-conference<br>workshops. You will find further details about the conference in the Call<br>for Papers below and on our homepage: <br>https://www.uni-giessen.de/talc. The deadline for abstract submission is 15<br>January 2016.<br><br>If you have any questions about submitting abstracts or the conference in<br>general, please do not hesitate to contact us at talc2016@uni-giessen.de.<br><br>We look forward to receiving your abstracts and welcoming you to TaLC 12!<br><br>Best regards,<br>Sandra Götz and Joybrato Mukherjee<br><br><br>First Circular and Call for Papers: 12th TaLC Conference in Giessen,<br>Germany, from 20-23 July 2016<br><br>Academic Programme<br><br>The programme will consist of full papers, pre-conference workshops, poster<br>sessions, software demonstrations, as well as invited plenary talks. The<br>programme starts with pre-conference workshops on Wednesday<br>20 July; the main conference will start on Thursday morning and finish on<br>Saturday after lunch. The following speakers have agreed to give plenaries<br>at the conference: Marcus Callies (University of Bremen), Gaëtanelle Gilquin<br>(Université catholique de Louvain), Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk<br>(University of Lodz), Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt University Berlin) and Tony<br>McEnery (Lancaster University).<br><br><br>Conference Venue<br><br>The conference will be held at Justus Liebig University?s main building<br>(Ludwigstrasse 23, 35390 Giessen).<br><br><br>Accommodation<br><br>We have made block reservations at the 4-star hotel Hotel Steinsgarten,<br>which is within walking distance of the conference venue. Participants are<br>requested to make their own reservations. <br>Special prices are available for conference participants; please mention<br>?TaLC 2016? when contacting the hotel (preferably via e-mail to<br>info@hotel-steinsgarten.de). We have also provided a list of alternative<br>budget accommodations close to the conference venue on this website.<br><br><br>Social Programme<br><br>On Wednesday evening, there will be a Conference Warming at the historic<br>restaurant Alt Giessen Gasthausbrauerei. You will have a choice of<br>activities for Thursday evening, including a visit to Giessen?s main<br>shopping street and a walk through the forest to a local monastery. On<br>Friday evening, we will enjoy panoramic views of Giessen and the surrounding<br>rolling hills of central Hesse during the conference dinner at Dach Cafe.<br><br><br>Abstract Submission<br><br>Paper presentations will consist of a 20-minute talk followed by 10 minutes<br>for questions and discussion. Papers reporting on empirical research should<br>represent either completed work, or work in progress where some results can<br>be reported. Presentations that take the form of a software demonstration<br>are also welcome.<br><br>Topics that are within the scope of TaLC include, but are not necessarily<br>limited to, corpus-based approaches to language learning, teaching and<br>assessment in the following areas:<br><br> teaching first and second languages (including data-driven learning<br>materials and student-centred linguistic investigation)<br> teaching languages for specific purposes<br> teaching interpreting and translation<br> teaching culture and history<br> teaching literature<br> teaching intercultural communication<br> developing pedagogic grammars and learner dictionaries<br> developing corpora/tools/resources<br> teacher education<br> research on second language acquisition and learner corpus research<br> teaching of corpus methods to students and researchers in linguistics<br><br>We request abstracts of 500 words (not counting the reference list) for<br>paper presentations. Submissions for poster presentations may be shorter<br>(300-500 words not counting references). Generally, we suggest submitting an<br>abstract for a poster rather than a paper presentation for (a) reports on<br>research in its very early phases with no intermediate or final results to<br>report or (b) reports on new corpus data resources.<br><br>Abstracts should be submitted through our online submission system: <br>http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/TaLC2016<br><br>The deadline for abstract submission is 15 January 2016.<br><br>Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 15 February 2016, along with<br>the second circular. Registration opens on 15 February 2016 and closes on 15<br>June 2016. The conference fee will be approximately<br>100 Euros. There will be student as well as early-bird discounts.<br><br>There will also be pre-conference workshops on 20 July. If you are<br>interested in organising one of the workshops, please contact the organisers<br>with a brief proposal and proposed timeline (morning, afternoon or all-day<br>workshop). Once the conference website indicates that the maximum number of<br>workshops has been reached, no further proposals can be accommodated.<br><br>We hope to see you in Giessen in July 2016!<br><br>The local organising committee consists of Sandra Götz (chair), Joybrato<br>Mukherjee (co-chair), Dilini Algama, Tobias Bernaisch, Rosemary Bock,<br>Bridgit Fastrich, Karin Puga, Bianca Widlitzki and Christoph Wolk.<br><br><br>--<br>Dr. Sandra Götz<br>Justus Liebig University, Giessen<br>Department of English - English Linguistics Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10 B Room B<br>411<br>35394 Giessen<br>Germany<br><br>p: +49 - (0)641 - 99 300 62<br>f: +49 - (0)641 - 99 301 59<br>w: http://www.uni-giessen.de/sgoetz<br>w: http://www.learnercorpusassociation.org<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Edling mailing list<br>Edling@bunner.geol.lu.se<br>http://bunner.geol.lu.se/mailman/listinfo/edling<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Edling mailing list<br>Edling@bunner.geol.lu.se<br>http://bunner.geol.lu.se/mailman/listinfo/edling<br></p></blockquote></body></html>