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Subject: 7.410, Confs: Teaching and Lang Corpora 96
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 16:35:27 GMT
From: mcenery at comp.lancs.ac.uk ("Dr Tony McEnery")
Subject: Teaching and Language Corpora 96 - Call for Participation
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 16:35:27 GMT
From: mcenery at comp.lancs.ac.uk ("Dr Tony McEnery")
Subject: Teaching and Language Corpora 96 - Call for Participation
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
TALC96 - TEACHING AND LANGUAGE CORPORA
Lancaster University, UK, 9th-12th August, 1996
INCLUDED IN THIS EMAIL:
General Details
Provisional Programme
Registration Details
AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE
While the use of computer text corpora in research is now well
established, they are now being used increasingly for teaching
purposes. This includes the use of corpus data to inform and create
teaching materials; it also includes the direct exploration of corpora
by students, both in the study of linguistics and of foreign
languages. Talc96 will build upon the success of Talc94, which
brought together researchers and teachers who are involved in such
work, to take part in an international exchange of current experience
and expertise.
THEMES
KEY THEME: Talc96 will have a special focus on evaluating the claims
made for corpora in linguistics and language teaching.
OTHER THEMES: which the conference is expected to cover include -
1.) The use of corpora in student led learning and investigation.
2.) Software for corpus based language and linguistics learning.
3.) Developing corpora for teaching purposes.
4.) The exploitation of corpus based teaching and learning materials.
5.) The theory and practice of corpus based teaching and learning.
Papers presented at the conference will be of the typical 20 minutes
talk plus ten minutes of questions format.
WORKSHOPS
Talc96 will also host several workshops related to teaching and
language corpora. To give an example of what those workshops may be,
Talc94 had a variety of workshops such as "Multilingual Corpus
Building" and "Concordancing and Corpus Retrieval". Workshops will be
of one to two hour duration.
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TALC96 - Provisional Programme.
Day One (9th August):
12 noon - 15.00:
Registration and Welcome.
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15.00 - 17.00: General Issues in Teaching and Language Corpora I
1. Issues in Applied Corpus Linguistics, Lynne Flowerdew, Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology
2. Corpus Linguistics - evaluating the diffusion of an innovation,
Chris Kennedy, University of Birmingham
3. Concordancing in English Language Teaching, Bernhard Kettemann,
University of Graz
4. The Role of the Corpus Based 'Phrasicon' in English Language
Teaching, Stephen Magee, University of St Andrews and Michael Rundell
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19.00 - Dinner
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Day Two (10th August)
9.00-11.00: Parallel Corpora in Language Teaching and Translation
1. Parallel Texts in Language Teaching, Michael Barlow, Rice University
2. Corpora and Terminology: Software for the Translation Programme at
Goteborg University, Pernilla Danielson & Daniel Ridings,
Goteborg University
3. Parallel and Comparable Bilingual Corpora in Language Teaching and
Learning, Carol Peters, CNR, Pisa
4. COSMAS - a multipurpose system for the exploitation of text corpora,
F. Bodmer, J Cloeren & R. Neumann, Institut fur Deutsche Sprache & Royal
Spanish Academcy
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11.00: Refreshments Break
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11.30 - 13.00: Creating Materials and Tests
1. CALL Materials Derived from Integrating 'Expert' and 'Interlanguage'
Corpora Findings, Lynne Flowerdew, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology
2. MultiConc and the Lingua Project, Francine Roussel, University of Nancy
3. Using Corpus Word Frequency Data in the Automatic Generation of
English Language Cloze Tests, David Coniam, Chinese University of
Hong Kong
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13.00 Lunch
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14.30-18.00: Workshops (Parallel Sessions)
Parallel Workshop Session A
Michael Barlow (Rice University) "ParaConc" (14:30 - 16:00)
Chris Tribble (Lancaster University): "Developing Corpora for
Teaching Purposes"
(14:30 - 16:00)
Parallel Workshop Session B
Philip King, Tim Johns, David Wools (Birmingham University): "The
Lingua Project
- Parallel Concordancing" (16:00 - 18:00)
Knut Hofland, "The ICAME Archive & Concordancing" (Bergen University)
(16:00 - 18:00)
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19.00: Dinner
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Day Three (11th August)
9.00-11.00: Corpora in Supporting ESP/EAP
1. Encouraging Students to Explore Language and Culture in Early
Modern English Pamphlets, Josef Schmied, University of Chemnitz
2. The Ideology of Science as a Collocation: how Corpus Linguistics
can Expand the Boundaries of Genre Analysis, Chris Gledhill,
Aston University
3. Corpora, Genre Analysis and Dissertation Writing: An Evaluation
of the Potential of Corpus-Based Techniques in the Study of Academic
Writing, Chris Carne, University of Reading
4. Investigating Grounding Across Narrative and Oral Discourse with
Students, Tony Jappy, University of Perpignan
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11.00: Refreshments
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11.30-13.00: Teaching Languages other than English Using Corpora
1. An Experiment in the Learning of French through Corpus Linguistics,
Glyn Holmes, University of Western Ontario
2. A Corpus for Teaching Portuguese, A. Berber Sardinha, University of
Liverpool
3. Research into the Functions of Particles in a Corpus, Marta
Fernandez-Villaneuva
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13.00 Lunch
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14.30-16.00: Corpora and Student Writing
1. Exploiting Learner Corpus Data in the Classroom: Form Focused
Instruction and Data Driven Learning, Sylviane Granger, Universite
Catholique de Louvain
2. Approaching the Assessment of Performance Unit Archive of
Schoolchildren's Writing from the Point of View of Corpus Linguistics,
M. Shimazumi & A Berber Sardinha, University of Liverpool
3. A Comparison of L1 and L2 writing in the Classroom, Robert Faingold
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16.00: Refreshments
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16.30-18.00: Special Session on the British National Corpus
16:30 The British National Corpus as a Language Learner Resource, Guy
Aston,University of Bologna
17:00 An Introduction to Retrieval from the BNC Using Sara,
Lou Burnard, OUCS.
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19.00 Dinner
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Day Four (12th August)
9 am-11.00: Corpus Resources and Systems
1. Teaching Terminology Using Corpora, Jennifer Pearson,
Dublin City University
2. A Textual Clues Approach for Generating Metaphors as Explanations
by an Intelligent Tutoring System, V. Prince & S. Ferrari, LIMSI-CNRS
3. Designing a CALL System Using Corpora for Speakers of Cantonese,
John Milton, City University Hong Kong
4. Marrying VERBALIST to concordance data, John Higgins,
University of Stirling
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11.00: Refreshments
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11.30-13.00: General Issues in Teaching and Language Corpora II
1. Evaluating Corpora - are we Asking the Right Questions?, Marina
Dossena, Bergamo University
2. Corpus Linguistics as an Academic Subject, Ouriana Hatzidaki,
University of Birmingham
3. A Corpus Based Description of Headline Grammar, John Morley,
University of Sienna
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13.00: Lunch
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14.30: Close of Conference
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TALC96 REGISTRATION.
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To register, you may either:
1. Send this form by surface mail to:
TALC96,
Department of Linguistics and
Modern English Language,
Lancaster University,
Bailrigg,
Lancaster LA1 4YT
United Kingdom
2. Or fax it to: +44 - 1524 - 843085
3. Or email it to: mcenery at computing.lancaster.ac.uk
or mcenery at comp.lancs.ac.uk
4. Or fill in the interactive form on the World Wide Web at the URL
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel/talc/
Please register BEFORE 1st June 1996, otherwise we cannot guarantee
availability of accommodation.
The fee for TALC96 includes the following:
Attendance at all TALC96 sessions
Conference Pack including Book of Abstracts
Accommodation on 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th August
Meals: 9th August: afternoon coffee and dinner
10th August: breakfast plus mid-morning coffee, lunch, afternoon
coffee and dinner.
11th August: breakfast plus mid-morning coffee, lunch, afternoon
coffee and dinner.
12th August: breakfast plus mid-morning coffee, lunch.
Accommodation is provided in single study bedrooms on the Lancaster
University main campus.
Payment Details:
Fees are payable in Pounds Sterling or US Dollars. Please make
cheques payable to 'Lancaster University'. Sterling money orders can
also be used for payment, and must be made payable to 'Lancaster
University'. US Dollar cheques are also acceptable, using a fixed
exchange rate of 1.5 $US to the Pound. Unfortunately, we cannot
accept credit card payments.
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REGISTRATION FORM
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Name: _______________________________________________
Title: _______________________________________________
Department: _______________________________________________
Institution/
Organisation: _______________________________________________
Address: _______________________________________________
Postcode/City: _______________________________________________
Country _______________________________________________
Telephone: ____________________________
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Email: ____________________________
Attendance at TALC96 [ ]
Residential #225.00 [ ]
Student #170.00 [ ]
Non-Residential #90.00 [ ]
NOTE: Students must provide written evidence of their full time
student status, such as an official headed letter from their
supervisor.
Special dietary requirements:
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Any other comments:
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Local Organising Committee
Gerry Knowles - Lancaster University, UK
Tony McEnery - Lancaster University, UK
Anne Wichmann - Central Lancashire University, UK
Simon Botley - Lancaster University, UK
General Organising Committee
Bernhard Kettemann - Graz, AU
Lou Burnard - Oxford University, UK
Tim Johns - Birmingham University, UK
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