Corpora: June Courses at The Tuscan Word Centre

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Courses at The Tuscan Word Centre 2002


17th-20th June HOW TO USE CORPORA IN LANGUAGE WORK

24th-27th June HOW TO USE CORPORA IN LANGUAGE TEACHING

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Still a chance to come on one or both of these courses.
If you are interested, please contact John Sinclair at:

mailto:jms at twc.it

as soon as possible.
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HOW TO USE CORPORA IN LANGUAGE WORK
17th-20th June inclusive (arrive 16th, depart 21st)
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TWC runs such a course every year; it is open to advanced students and 
researchers, and workers in the language industries, and it is relevant to 
all who are interested in the present state of corpus work and the 
potential for the future.

Topic Leaders:

Prof Göran Kjellmer, University of Gothenburg
Mr Frank Mueller, University of Tuebingen
Dr Pernilla Daniellson, University of Birmingham
Prof Elena Tognini Bonelli, University of Lecce
Prof John Sinclair, The Tuscan Word Centre

Topics include:

Syntax studies with annotated and unannotated corpora
Syntactic class differences as mirrored in corpora.
Corpora in a historical perspective
Functionally-complete Units in a contextual theory of meaning
Corpus-based and corpus-driven linguistics
Shallow parsing:how it's done and what you can do with it
Linguistic data structures in language corpora
Software for corpus access and analysis
Annotation and corpus interrogation
Multilingual and parallel corpora
The lexical item
Lexicogrammar and Phraseology

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For further information about the course, about TWC,
its superb location and facilities, refer to the website
http://www.twc.it
or send an e-mail to mailto:courses at twc.it

The overall cost of this course, including participation, accommodation, 
all meals and local transport is 1500 euros.
There is a strict limit on the number of places, so please apply early.

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HOW TO USE CORPORA IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
24th-27th June inclusive  (arrive 23rd, depart 28th)
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The Tuscan Word Centre

Intensive Course June 17th-20th 2002 inclusive

Corpora are already an important source of ideas, models, examples and 
descriptions for language teaching, and will gradually affect the work of 
all the teachers, and the managers, researchers and materials developers in 
the language teaching industry.  Language teachers and their colleagues 
should be aware of the range of activities that are taking place all over 
the world, should be in command of the routines of access to corpora and 
the retrieval of useful results, and should be able to plan uses of corpora 
in their own practice and in their own institutions.
A very successful course on this theme was held at TWC in October 2001, and 
a book will shortly be published recording the main presentations that were 
made.

Topic Leaders:

Prof. Sylviane Granger, University of Louvain
Dr. Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham
Dott.ssa Silvia Bernardini, University of Forlì
Dr. Pernilla Danielsson, University of Birmingham
Prof.ssa Elena Tognini Bonelli, University of Lecce
Prof. John Sinclair, The Tuscan Word Centre

Topics include:

Learner Corpora: design, analysis and applications
Annotation, part-of-speech tagging and error tagging
Pedagogical and NLP applications

The use of corpus evidence
Phraseology, pattern, and meaning
Corpus evidence applied to a text
Paradigm and syntagm in language
Technology serves pedagogic needs?

Corpora in the classroom:
- in the acquisition of new languages
- in the training of translators
data-driven learning
meaning-focused learning tasks

Corpus, text and discourse in LSP
Discourse of subject areas:
Monolingual  economics
Bilingual -  tourism.

Software for corpus access and analysis
Parallel corpora
Annotation, phrase building
Text-oriented programming

New priorities in theory
Facts and observation
The sheltered classroom and the big wide world

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For further information about the course, about TWC,
its superb location and facilities, refer to the website
http://www.twc.it
or send an e-mail to mailto:courses at twc.it

The overall cost of this course, including participation, accommodation,
all meals and local transport is 1500 euros.
There is a strict limit on the number of places, so please apply early.