36.312, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics / Belgium

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Subject: 36.312, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics / Belgium

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Date: 22-Jan-2025
From: Gaëtanelle Gilquin [gaetanelle.gilquin at uclouvain.be]
Subject: Register and Task Variation in Learner Corpus Research


Full Title: Register and Task Variation in Learner Corpus Research
Short Title: VAR4LCR

Date: 07-Jul-2025 - 08-Jul-2025
Location: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Contact Person: Gaëtanelle Gilquin
Meeting Email: var4lcr at uclouvain.be

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics;
Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2025

2nd Call for Papers:
Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR),
Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025
***Please note that the deadline for abstract submission has been
extended to 31 January.***
To mark the end of a Hoover Seedfund collaborative project between the
Centre for English Corpus Linguistics at the University of Louvain
(UCLouvain) and the Department of English at Northern Arizona
University (NAU), a conference on Register and task variation in
Learner Corpus Research will be organized in Louvain-la-Neuve,
Belgium, on 7-8 July 2025 under the aegis of the Learner Corpus
Association. The conference will be an on-site event only.
We are pleased to announce that the following speakers have agreed to
give a keynote presentation at the conference:
- Prof. Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University)
- Prof. Marije Michel (University of Groningen)
- Prof. Shelley Staples (University of Arizona)
We welcome submissions which compare two or more registers or tasks in
corpora of learner language, using the methods of corpus linguistics /
learner corpus research, and which analyse the possible effects of
register/task on the linguistic features of learner language. The
learner registers/tasks may, in addition, be compared against some
reference corpus data such as native or expert language. Both
quantitative and qualitative approaches are welcome, with a focus on
any aspects of language (phraseology, grammatical complexity, fluency,
etc.).
We are particularly interested in submissions that
- use data representing different registers/tasks produced by the same
L2 learners;
- compare registers/tasks displaying different degrees of formality or
involving different degrees of communicative control;
- combine quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis;
- discuss the methodological issues related to the comparison of
registers/tasks in learner language;
- include under-researched registers/tasks/languages.
There will be three different categories of presentation:
- full paper
- work-in-progress report
- poster
Abstracts should be about 500 words (not including references) and
specify how the paper will contribute to the theme of the conference,
in particular by highlighting the registers/tasks that will be
compared and the corpora that will be used. They should also provide a
clear outline of the aim(s) of the paper, including clearly
articulated research questions, sufficient details about the
methodology and (preliminary) results.
Abstracts should be uploaded to OpenReview
(https://openreview.net/group?id=VAR4LCR/2025/Conference) no later
than 31 January 2025 at 23:59 UTC.
For more information, please check the conference website:
https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl/register-and-task-variation-in-learner-corpus-research.html.
We look forward to receiving your abstracts!



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