[Corpora-List] TaLC 2014 **Final** Call for Participation - Teaching and Language Corpora 11, Lancaster University, July

[Hardie, Andrew]

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

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11th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference, 2014 (TaLC 11): 
Final CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/talc2014

The next TaLC conference takes place in July at Lancaster University. 

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.

This circular contains our second and final CALL FOR PARTICIPATION. 

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Registration
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Online registration is open until **29th June**.

      http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/talc2014/register.php

For any queries related to registration, email:

              talc2014 at lancaster.ac.uk

On-campus accommodation can be booked when you register; see the 
website for full details.

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Invited speakers
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  * 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)

  
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Conference programme
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A **draft** programme for the main conference is now available online:

  http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/talc2014/programme.php

Please note that all details in the draft programme are subject to 
change.


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Workshop day
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On the pre-conference workshop day, the following half-day workshops 
will be offered.

MORNING SESSION:

 - An introduction to working with written and spoken corpus data
   Led by: Chris Tribble and Guy Aston

 - Analysing English vocabulary with the New General Service List: 
   Pedagogical applications
   Led by: Vaclav Brezina

 - Unix for corpus-users: a beginner's guide
   Led by: John Williams

AFTERNOON SESSION:

 - Helping L2 learners and translators find L1-L2 equivalence with 
   the help of corpora
   Led by: Ana Frankenberg-Garcia

 - Readability and vocabulary management
   Led by: George Weir and Laurence Anthony

 - Keyword and collocation statistics: under the hood of CQPweb
   Led by: Andrew Hardie

The additional registration fee for the workshop day is GBP 60 
(GBP for students). Attendees will have a separate choice of which 
workshop to attend in the morning and in the afternoon.

Descriptions of the workshops are available on the website:

   http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/talc2014/workshops.php
   

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Key dates
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  * 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:

  * Andrew Hardie (chair)
  * Tony McEnery
  * Paul Rayson
  
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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