Corpora: corpus linguistics course

[Ute Römer]

Dear CORPORA list members,

I would like to join Beatrice Vautherin in her query on "How to organize a
CL course". I too am planning my first corpus linguistics course with
thirteen 90-minute sessions, starting April 15th. Unfortunately I won't be
able to use a computer lab and have real hands-on sessions as we don't have
the facilities and the group of students will probably be quite large (not
possible to limit numbers, so I might end up with 50+ students). In order
not to give an exclusively theoretical introduction to CL I decided to have
laptop+beamer ready throughout the course for software demos and corpus
queries.

Having made a list of the topics I want to include, my main problem is now
to make decisions on how much time to spend on what. How much time will I
need to deal with technical aspects of corpus
compilation/design/annotation/typology etc. How many sessions should I spend
on "CL and linguistic theory/theories", how many on corpus
analysis/application and how many fields of application can be dealt with if
I have let's say 8 sessions for that topic?

Then I still need to find some more short articles (not longer than 10-12
pages) I could give to my students to prepare short oral presentations. Will
selected sections from (introductory) CL textbooks be more useful for this
purpose than descriptions of specific research projects?

Would be great if anyone of you could help! Thanks very much in advance!
Best,
Ute
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Ute Römer
Universität zu Köln
Englisches Seminar
Albertus-Magnus-Platz 1
50923 Köln
Germany
Phone: +49(0)221 470 3038
E-mail: ute.roemer at uni-koeln.de


----- Original Message -----
From: "Beatrice Vautherin" <beatrice.vautherin at wanadoo.fr>
To: <corpora at hd.uib.no>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 5:41 PM
Subject: Corpora: corpus linguistics course


> Dear list members,
> I am seeking advice on the best way to organize a corpus linguistics
course
> in my English department. Starting in february 2003, 2 hours every other

> week for 12 to 13 weeks (that is our second semester) so about twelve
hours
> altogether. I can have a computer room with 10-12 PCs.
> I would like to know what corpora and what tools to buy (my BNC-World
> failed to install and I sent the CDs back). Of course the less money I ask
> for, the happier my head of department will be. Still I want the students
> to have hands-on sessions with software that runs smoothly so as not to
put
> them off corpus linguistics for ever. They are second-year students in
> France (Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle) studying for a degree in English.
> Thanks for your help. I will post a summary of the numerous replies I
receive.
> Beatrice Vautherin
>
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