Corpora: Call For Papers: Teaching and Language Corpora (TALC 2002)

[Guy Aston]

           THE FIFTH TEACHING AND LANGUAGE CORPORA CONFERENCE (TALC 2002)
      
                                 27-31 July, 2002
                                 Bertinoro, Italy

                Conference website: http://www.sslmit.unibo.it/talc
                           email: talc5 at sslmit.unibo.it

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Following the highly successful conferences in Lancaster (1994 and 1996),
Oxford (1998) and Graz (2000), the fifth international TALC conference will
bring together practitioners and theorists with a common interest in the
use of corpus tools for such purposes as: 
- first and second language teaching and learning 
- language awareness raising 
- teaching languages for specific purposes 
- student-centered linguistic investigation 
- interpreting and translation studies 
- cultural and historical studies 
- teaching literature 

The conference will be held in the mediaeval hill-top village of Bertinoro
(roughly half way between Bologna and Rimini), beginning at 7 p.m. on July
27 and ending at 9 a.m on July 31. Pre-conference tutorials and workshops
will be held on July 27.

Invited speakers (confirmed): Bernhard Kettemann, John Sinclair, Henry
Widdowson.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
TALC 2002 invites proposals for position papers, reports of work in
progress, case-histories of successful corpus applications, and
introductions to relevant new resources. Proposals may be for 20-minute
plenary presentations, posters, or software demonstrations. We also welcome
proposals for longer pre-conference tutorials and workshops.
     Abstracts (500 words) should reach Guy Aston (talc5 at sslmit.unibo.it)
before 15 February 2002; pre-conference workshop proposals before 31
January 2002. All proposals will be reviewed. Authors of those accepted for
inclusion will be notified by 15 April, and the programme will be finalised
during May 2002.

Programme committee: Lou Burnard (Oxford), Bernhard Kettemann (Graz), Tony
McEnery (Lancaster), Barbara Seidlhofer (Vienna), Christopher Tribble
(London), Guy Aston (Forlì)

Organisation: School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators
and Department of Interpreting, Translating, Linguistic and Cultural
Studies, University of Bologna at Forlì

Organising committee: Guy Aston, Silvia Bernardini, Laura Gavioli, Dominic
Stewart, Federico Zanettin

Guy Aston
SSLMIT, C.so Repubblica 136, 47100 Forlì. Tel.0543450307 Fax.0543450306