17.3473, Calls: Applied Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Russia

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Subject: 17.3473, Calls: Applied Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Russia

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Date: 23-Nov-2006
From: Nina Dobrushina < ndobrushina at hse.ru >
Subject: National Russian Corpus in Teaching Humanities 

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Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:40:50
From: Nina Dobrushina < ndobrushina at hse.ru >
Subject: National Russian Corpus in Teaching Humanities 

Full Title: National Russian Corpus in Teaching Humanities 

Date: 19-Apr-2007 - 20-Apr-2007
Location: Moscow, Russia 
Contact Person: Nina Dobrushina
Meeting Email: ndobrushina at hse.ru
Web Site: http://new.hse.ru/sites/conf_rus_lang 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Russian (rus)

Call Deadline: 10-Jan-2007 

Meeting Description:

The National Russian Corpus (www.ruscorpora.ru) is an e-archive project that has been launched two years ago. It is a relatively young web-resource, and is not yet used to the extent that fully uncovers its potential. Most of the teachers of Russian are unaware of the Corpus; its broader application could be an important new impact in the development of language teaching in all domains where Russian is taught. 
The issues to be covered are:
- The National Russian Corpus as an innovative teaching technology;
- The National Russian Corpus in teaching Russian to foreign students; 
- The National Russian Corpus in teaching Russian at schools and high schools;
- The use of the National Russian Corpus in writing new reference books and manuals; 
- The role of the National Russian Corpus in determining the content of language teaching;
- The National Russian Corpus and compilation of modern dictionaries and reference books of Russian;
- The use of the National Russian Corpus in language tests; 
- Creating specialized educational corpora. 

The site of the National Russian Corpus project (www.ruscorpora.ru) has been launched two years ago and is a relatively new internet resource, still underused by the Russian audience. Although it could have a significant positive impact on the systemic aspects of teaching Russian, there are not many teachers of Russian who are aware of its existence. 

This letter is an invitation for you to take part in the conference and share your experience of using the National Russian Corpus with other users, both actual and future.

The Organizing Committee includes: Ekaterina Rakhilina (Russian Academy of Sciences, All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, Moscow), Nina Dobrushina (State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Vladimir Plungian (Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Linguistics, Moscow), Elena Penskaya (State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow).

Institutional organizer - Department of Language and Literature, State University Higher School of Economics. 

Plenary lectures. The following Slavists have agreed to read plenary papers: Renate Rathmayr (Institut für Slavische Sprachen, Wien), Laura Janda (University of North Carolina), Daniel Weiss (Universität Zürich), Alexander Moldovan (Russian Academy of Sciences, Vinogradov Institute for the Russian Language, Moscow), Igor Miloslavskij (Moscow State University), Vladimir Plungian (Institute of Linguistics, Moscow, Vinogradov Institute for the Russian Language, Moscow).

The issues to be covered are:

- The National Russian Corpus as an innovative teaching technology;
- The National Russian Corpus in teaching Russian to foreign students;
- The National Russian Corpus in teaching Russian at schools and high schools;
- The use of the National Russian Corpus in writing new reference books and manuals;
- The role of the National Russian Corpus in determining the content of language teaching;
- The National Russian Corpus and compilation of modern dictionaries and reference books of Russian;
- The use of the National Russian Corpus in language tests;
- Creating specialized educational corpora.

Important dates

- The deadline for abstract submission is January 10, 2007.
- By February 15, 2007, the Organizing Committee will notify the applicants whether their abstracts were accepted or declined.

By way of exception, partial financial support for Russian participants is possible (travel and accommodation expenses). If you want to apply for such a support, please notify us in the letter with the abstract. 

To foreign participants, we provide visa support and help in finding accommodation. 

The abstracts are to be submitted electronically only, as an MSWord Attachment to the following address ndobrushina at hse.ru, with the subject line reading ''Corpus and teaching''. 

The abstract should not exceed two standard pages (or about 6500 characters),
in 12 pt Times New Roman, with each margin of 2,5 cm and single line spacing.

The header includes the following information
(each of the four elements constitutes its own paragraph):

--the title of the abstract; 
--the name of the author (or authors); 
--the institution the author is affiliated to; 
--his/her email.

All questions and suggestions please to be sent to ndobrushina at hse.ru with the subject line reading ''Corpus and teaching''.

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