[Edling] TaLC 12: First Circular and Call for Papers

[Emily Black]

Dear Anne and Irina, 

I'm sure this is going around via LinguistList as well, but thought I'd pass
it on...
Best,
Emily




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Betreff: [Edling] TaLC 12: First Circular and Call for Papers

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Justus Liebig University Giessen in Germany
will be hosting the 12th biannual Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC)
Conference to be held 20 July to 23 July 2016. The TaLC conferences offer an
important platform for researchers, teachers, practitioners and software
developers to share their ideas on how corpus resources and tools for
analysis can be useful in/for language teaching. They aim to promote
classroom applications of language corpora, data-driven learning, as well as
the creation of corpus-informed teaching materials and other resources, and
foster discussion between practitioners and theorists from all over the
world.

We cordially invite you to attend this conference and submit your abstracts
for presentations, posters, software demonstrations and pre-conference
workshops. You will find further details about the conference in the Call
for Papers below and on our homepage:  
https://www.uni-giessen.de/talc. The deadline for abstract submission is 15
January 2016.

If you have any questions about submitting abstracts or the conference in
general, please do not hesitate to contact us at talc2016 at uni-giessen.de.

We look forward to receiving your abstracts and welcoming you to TaLC 12!

Best regards,
Sandra Götz and Joybrato Mukherjee


First Circular and Call for Papers: 12th TaLC Conference in Giessen,
Germany, from 20-23 July 2016

Academic Programme

The programme will consist of full papers, pre-conference workshops, poster
sessions, software demonstrations, as well as invited plenary talks. The
programme starts with pre-conference workshops on Wednesday
20 July; the main conference will start on Thursday morning and finish on
Saturday after lunch. The following speakers have agreed to give plenaries
at the conference: Marcus Callies (University of Bremen), Gaëtanelle Gilquin
(Université catholique de Louvain), Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
(University of Lodz), Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt University Berlin) and Tony
McEnery (Lancaster University).


Conference Venue

The conference will be held at Justus Liebig University?s main building
(Ludwigstrasse 23, 35390 Giessen).


Accommodation

We have made block reservations at the 4-star hotel Hotel Steinsgarten,
which is within walking distance of the conference venue. Participants are
requested to make their own reservations.  
Special prices are available for conference participants; please mention
?TaLC 2016? when contacting the hotel (preferably via e-mail to
info at hotel-steinsgarten.de). We have also provided a list of alternative
budget accommodations close to the conference venue on this website.


Social Programme

On Wednesday evening, there will be a Conference Warming at the historic
restaurant Alt Giessen Gasthausbrauerei. You will have a choice of
activities for Thursday evening, including a visit to Giessen?s main
shopping street and a walk through the forest to a local monastery. On
Friday evening, we will enjoy panoramic views of Giessen and the surrounding
rolling hills of central Hesse during the conference dinner at Dach Cafe.


Abstract Submission

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 also welcome.

Topics that are within the scope of TaLC include, but are not necessarily
limited to, corpus-based approaches to language learning, teaching and
assessment in the following areas:

     teaching first and second languages (including data-driven learning
materials and student-centred linguistic investigation)
     teaching languages for specific purposes
     teaching interpreting and translation
     teaching culture and history
     teaching literature
     teaching intercultural communication
     developing pedagogic grammars and learner dictionaries
     developing corpora/tools/resources
     teacher education
     research on second language acquisition and learner corpus research
     teaching of corpus methods to students and researchers in linguistics

We request abstracts of 500 words (not counting the reference list) for
paper presentations. Submissions for poster presentations may be shorter
(300-500 words not counting references). Generally, we suggest submitting an
abstract for a poster rather than a paper presentation for (a) reports on
research in its very early phases with no intermediate or final results to
report or (b) reports on new corpus data resources.

Abstracts should be submitted through our online submission system:  
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/TaLC2016

The deadline for abstract submission is 15 January 2016.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 15 February 2016, along with
the second circular. Registration opens on 15 February 2016 and closes on 15
June 2016. The conference fee will be approximately
100 Euros. There will be student as well as early-bird discounts.

There will also be pre-conference workshops on 20 July. If you are
interested in organising one of the workshops, please contact the organisers
with a brief proposal and proposed timeline (morning, afternoon or all-day
workshop). Once the conference website indicates that the maximum number of
workshops has been reached, no further proposals can be accommodated.

We hope to see you in Giessen in July 2016!

The local organising committee consists of Sandra Götz (chair), Joybrato
Mukherjee (co-chair), Dilini Algama, Tobias Bernaisch, Rosemary Bock,
Bridgit Fastrich, Karin Puga, Bianca Widlitzki and Christoph Wolk.


--
Dr. Sandra Götz
Justus Liebig University, Giessen
Department of English - English Linguistics Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10 B Room B
411
35394 Giessen
Germany

p: +49 - (0)641 - 99 300 62
f: +49 - (0)641 - 99 301 59
w: http://www.uni-giessen.de/sgoetz
w: http://www.learnercorpusassociation.org

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