[Corpora-List] Teaching and Language Corpora conference (TaLC 2014): First Call for Papers and Workshops

[Hardie, Andrew]

(Please recirculate. Apologies for any cross-posting! - AH)

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11th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference, 2014 (TaLC 11): 
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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The next TaLC conference  will take place in 2014 at Lancaster 
University, UK. 

The TaLC series of conferences was inaugurated in 1994. For this 20th 
anniversary event, we are delighted to welcome the eleventh TaLC back 
to Lancaster, the original host institution.

TaLC 11 will run from Monday 21st to Wednesday 23rd July (inclusive), 
with a pre-conference workshop day on Sunday 20th July.

We are pleased to announce that the following scholars have agreed to 
give plenary talks at TaLC 11:

  * Laurence Anthony (Waseda University, Japan)
  * Nick Ellis (University of Michigan, USA)
  * Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska  (University of Warsaw, Poland)
  * Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham, UK)
  * Yukio Tono (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan)

With this announcement, we issue our CALL FOR PAPERS and our CALL FOR 
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS. 

This call can also be found on the conference website, 
http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/talc2014 .

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Call for papers
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We invite submissions on any topic, whether applied, descriptive or 
theoretical, which brings together corpus data or corpus linguistic 
methodology with language learning and teaching, broadly defined. 
Topics that are within scope for TaLC include, but are not necessarily 
limited to, corpus-based approaches to any of the following:

  * 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
  * teaching of corpus methods to students and researchers in 
    linguistics

Paper presentations will consist of a 20 minute talk followed by 10 
minutes for questions and discussion. Papers reporting on empirical 
research should represent either completed work, or work in progress 
where some results can be reported. Presentations that take the form 
of a software demonstration are welcome. We request abstracts of 750 
words, not counting the reference list, for either type of presentation
- formatted according to the stylesheet provided on the conference 
website, and submitted via our online system.

Submissions for poster presentations may be shorter (400-750 words 
not counting references). Typically, we would suggest submission of a 
poster abstract, rather than a paper presentation abstract, for: (a) 
reports on research that is in its very earliest phases with no 
intermediate or final results to report; (b) reports on new corpus 
data resources.

We especially encourage submission of abstracts from early-career 
researchers, including postgraduate research students and postdoctoral
researchers.

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Call for workshops
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We invite proposals for pre-conference workshops. Workshops should be 
oriented towards developing participants' practical skills in some area
of corpus construction or analysis relevant to the overall themes of 
the conference. They should be designed to be 2.5 to 3 hours long, 
ideally involving some hands-on activities (which may or may not be 
computer-lab-based, as per your preference, but please specify this!).
We anticipate that we will offer four to six workshops in total. 

Proposals for workshops, formatted as you see best and up to 1 page in 
extent, should be submitted by email to Andrew Hardie at 

    a.hardie at lancaster.ac.uk 
	
(not submitted via the regular online system).

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Key dates
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  * 31st October 2013 - abstract submission opens via conference 
    website
  * 6th January 2014 - deadline for abstract submission (including 
    pre-conference workshops)
  * 24th February 2014 - notification of the outcome of peer review; 
    early-bird registration opens
  * 14th April 2014 - early bird registration closes
  * 29th June 2014 - final deadline for registration
  * 29th June 2014 - final deadline for cancellation with refund of 
    registration fees
  * 20th / 21st July 2014 - pre-conference workshop day / main 
    conference begins


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About TaLC 11
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This conference is hosted by the UCREL research centre
<http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk>, which brings together the Department of 
Linguistics and English Language <http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk> with 
the School of Computing and Communications <http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk>
at Lancaster University.

Email:      talc2014 at lancaster.ac.uk
Web:        http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/talc2014 

Organising committee:

  * Mark McGlashan
  * Andrew Hardie (chair)
  * Tony McEnery

Programme committee:

  * Guy Aston (University of Bologna, Italy)
  * Alex Boulton (Université de Lorraine, France)
  * Lynne Flowerdew (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
  * Ana Frankenberg-Garcia (University of Surrey, UK)
  * Natalie Kübler (Université Paris Diderot, France)
  * Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska (University of Warsaw, Poland)
  * Ute Römer (Georgia State University, USA)
  * James Thomas (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
  * Yukio Tono (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
  * Chris Tribble (King's College, London, UK)



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