[Corpora-List] Learner Corpus Research: Easter School

[Gaëtanelle Gilquin]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

EASTER SCHOOL

Learner Corpus Research: Theory and Applications

3-7 April 2006
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Organised by the
Centre for English Corpus Linguistics
University of Louvain


We still have a few places available for the 
Easter School on learner corpus research that 
will take place at the Centre for English Corpus 
Linguistics, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), from 3 to 7 April 2006.

The aim of the Easter School is to introduce 
learner corpus research through a series of 
lectures, workshops and hands-on sessions. It is 
intended both for researchers who have recently 
embarked on a learner corpus project and those 
who simply want to know more about this new field of research.

COURSE DIRECTOR: Professor Sylviane Granger, 
Director of the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics

LECTURERS: Sylviane Granger,  Fanny Meunier, Gaëtanelle Gilquin

LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: English

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: c. 25

VENUE: University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve

TOPICS COVERED IN THE LECTURES:

- Learner corpus collection (written and spoken 
data): corpus design criteria and markup
- Learner corpus annotation (POS-tagging and error tagging)
- Computer-aided analysis of lexis, grammar and discourse
- Learner corpora and Second Language Acquisition research
- Pedagogical applications of learner corpora 
(dictionaries, teaching materials, CALL programs, testing)

PARALLEL WORKSHOPS:

- Automated extraction and analysis of phraseological units
- Relevance of corpus-based contrastive studies for learner corpus research
- PERL programming

HANDS-ON IN COMPUTER LAB:

- International Corpus of Learner English CD-ROM
- University of Louvain Error Editor
- Text retrieval software programs (concordancers)


More information, including registration form, on 
http://cecl.fltr.ucl.ac.be/EasterSchool2006/welcome.html
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