[Corpora-List] TALC10 Call for papers

[Agnieszka Lenko-Szymanska]

Call for papers


The 10th bi-annual Teaching and Language Corpora Conference will take place
in Warsaw, Poland on 12th - 14th July 2012. Pre-conference workshops and
tutorials will be offered on 11th July. The conference will bring together
practitioners and theorists with a common interest in the use of corpora
for:

*	first and second language teaching and learning (including
data-driven learning materials and student-centred linguistic investigation)
*	language awareness raising
*	teaching languages for specific purposes
*	teaching interpreting and translation
*	teaching culture and history
*	teaching literature
*	teaching inter-cultural communication
*	developing pedagogic grammars and learner dictionaries
*	teacher education
*	research on second language acquisition

The corpus resources can include:

*	general corpora
*	LSP corpora
*	written and spoken coropora
*	multimodal corpora
*	simplified corpora
*	learner corpora
*	web as a corpus

The following speakers have kindly accepted our invitation to give a keynote
presentation at the conference.

Professor Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk

University of Łódź, Poland

 

Professor Randi Reppen

North Arizona University, US

 

Professor Barbara Seidlhofer

University of Vienna, Austria

 

Mr. James Thomas

Masaryk University, Czech Republic

 

Dr. Chris Tribble

King's College, London. UK

TaLC 10 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 papers, posters, or
software demonstrations. We also welcome proposals for pre-conference
tutorials and workshops. The workshops should be 2.5 - 3 hours long and
involve hands-on activities. The official language of the conference will be
English.

All proposals should be approximately 500 words, excluding references.
Authors are requested to refrain from citing their own work to preserve
anonymity. The proposals should be sent to the following address:
talc10(at)uw.edu.pl <mailto:talc10 at uw.edu.pl> . The deadline for submission
of papers, posters and software demos is 31 January 2012. The deadline for
submission of pre-conference workshops and tutorials is 29 February 2012.

All proposals will be blind reviewed. Authors of those selected for
presentation at the conference will be notified in the middle of April. The
authors will be required to prepare written versions of their presentations
in the form of short papers of 2,500-3000 words to be submitted by 31 May
2011. The papers will be included in an unedited volume of the conference
proceedings, which will be published on a CD and distributed to the all the
participants during the conference. Selected full-length papers will be
published in an edited volume with a leading international publisher after
the conference.

 

Conference organizer:

Agnieszka Lenko
Institute of Applied Linguistics
University of Warsaw

Browarna 8/10
00-311 Warsaw, Poland

conference e-mail: talc10(at)uw.edu.pl <mailto:talc10 at uw.edu.pl> 
conference website: talc10.ils.uw.edu.pl <http://talc10.ils.uw.edu.pl/> 

fax: +48 22 8261391

 

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