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11th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference, 2014 (TaLC 11):

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

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The next TaLC conference  will take place in 2014 at Lancaster

University, UK.

The TaLC series of conferences was inaugurated in 1994. For this 20th

anniversary event, we are delighted to welcome the eleventh TaLC back

to Lancaster, the original host institution.

TaLC 11 will run from Monday 21st to Wednesday 23rd July (inclusive),

with a pre-conference workshop day on Sunday 20th July.

We are pleased to announce that the following scholars have agreed to

give plenary talks at TaLC 11:

  * Laurence Anthony (Waseda University, Japan)

  * Nick Ellis (University of Michigan, USA)

  * Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska  (University of Warsaw, Poland)

  * Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham, UK)

  * Yukio Tono (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan)

With this announcement, we issue our CALL FOR PAPERS and our CALL FOR

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS.

This call can also be found on the conference website,

http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/talc2014.

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Call for papers

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We invite submissions on any topic, whether applied, descriptive or

theoretical, which brings together corpus data or corpus linguistic

methodology with language learning and teaching, broadly defined.

Topics that are within scope for TaLC include, but are not necessarily

limited to, corpus-based approaches to any of the following:

  * first and second language teaching and learning (including data

    driven learning materials and student-centred linguistic

        investigation)

  * language awareness raising

  * teaching languages for specific purposes

  * teaching interpreting and translation

  * teaching culture and history

  * teaching literature

  * teaching inter-cultural communication

  * developing pedagogic grammars and learner dictionaries

  * teacher education

  * research on second language acquisition

  * teaching of corpus methods to students and researchers in

    linguistics

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 welcome. We request abstracts of 750

words, not counting the reference list, for either type of presentation

- formatted according to the stylesheet provided on the conference

website, and submitted via our online system.

Submissions for poster presentations may be shorter (400-750 words

not counting references). Typically, we would suggest submission of a

poster abstract, rather than a paper presentation abstract, for: (a)

reports on research that is in its very earliest phases with no

intermediate or final results to report; (b) reports on new corpus

data resources.

We especially encourage submission of abstracts from early-career

researchers, including postgraduate research students and postdoctoral

researchers.

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Call for workshops

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We invite proposals for pre-conference workshops. Workshops should be

oriented towards developing participants' practical skills in some area

of corpus construction or analysis relevant to the overall themes of

the conference. They should be designed to be 2.5 to 3 hours long,

ideally involving some hands-on activities (which may or may not be

computer-lab-based, as per your preference, but please specify this!).

We anticipate that we will offer four to six workshops in total.

Proposals for workshops, formatted as you see best and up to 1 page in

extent, should be submitted by email to Andrew Hardie at

   a.hardie@lancaster.ac.uk

(not submitted via the regular online system).

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Key dates

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  * 31st October 2013 - abstract submission opens via conference

    website

  * 6th January 2014 - deadline for abstract submission (including

    pre-conference workshops)

  * 24th February 2014 - notification of the outcome of peer review;

    early-bird registration opens

  * 14th April 2014 - early bird registration closes

  * 29th June 2014 - final deadline for registration

  * 29th June 2014 - final deadline for cancellation with refund of

    registration fees

  * 20th / 21st July 2014 - pre-conference workshop day / main

    conference begins

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About TaLC 11

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This conference is hosted by the UCREL research centre

< http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk>, which brings together the Department of

Linguistics and English Language < http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk> with

the School of Computing and Communications < http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk>

at Lancaster University.

Email:      talc2014@lancaster.ac.uk

Web:        http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/talc2014

Organising committee:

  * Mark McGlashan

  * Andrew Hardie (chair)

  * Tony McEnery

Programme committee:

  * Guy Aston (University of Bologna, Italy)

  * Alex Boulton (Université de Lorraine, France)

  * Lynne Flowerdew (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)

  * Ana Frankenberg-Garcia (University of Surrey, UK)

  * Natalie Kübler (Université Paris Diderot, France)

  * Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska (University of Warsaw, Poland)

  * Ute Römer (Georgia State University, USA)

  * James Thomas (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)

  * Yukio Tono (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan)

  * Chris Tribble (King's College, London, UK)