CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
EASTER SCHOOL
Learner Corpus Research: Theory and Applications
3-7 April 2006
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Organised by the
Centre for English Corpus Linguistics
University of Louvain
We still have a few places available for the
Easter School on learner corpus research that
will take place at the Centre for English Corpus
Linguistics, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), from 3 to 7 April 2006.
The aim of the Easter School is to introduce
learner corpus research through a series of
lectures, workshops and hands-on sessions. It is
intended both for researchers who have recently
embarked on a learner corpus project and those
who simply want to know more about this new field of research.
COURSE DIRECTOR: Professor Sylviane Granger,
Director of the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics
LECTURERS: Sylviane Granger, Fanny Meunier, Gaėtanelle Gilquin
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: English
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: c. 25
VENUE: University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve
TOPICS COVERED IN THE LECTURES:
- Learner corpus collection (written and spoken
data): corpus design criteria and markup
- Learner corpus annotation (POS-tagging and error tagging)
- Computer-aided analysis of lexis, grammar and discourse
- Learner corpora and Second Language Acquisition research
- Pedagogical applications of learner corpora
(dictionaries, teaching materials, CALL programs, testing)
PARALLEL WORKSHOPS:
- Automated extraction and analysis of phraseological units
- Relevance of corpus-based contrastive studies for learner corpus research
- PERL programming
HANDS-ON IN COMPUTER LAB:
- International Corpus of Learner English CD-ROM
- University of Louvain Error Editor
- Text retrieval software programs (concordancers)
More information, including registration form, on
http://cecl.fltr.ucl.ac.be/EasterSchool2006/welcome.html
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