Presentations from last week’s TBLT conference are now being uploaded online. You can view them here.
Archive for November, 2011
Task-based language teaching conference presentations online
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011Second Life conference presentation now online
Thursday, November 24th, 2011I gave a plenary at the recent SLanguages conference in Second Life. The whole thing is now available for watching online here.
Iris research repository
Sunday, November 20th, 2011At the TBLT conference this weekend here in Auckland, New Zealand, a brief presentation was given about Iris, a research repository. This sounds like a very exciting project. You can read more about it here.
Corpus linguistics conference in Suzhoe
Friday, November 11th, 2011conference announcement
Conference theme Corpus linguistics: technologies for language research, teaching and learning
Abstract submission deadline: 1 March 2012
Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2012
Conference dates: 28-30 June 2012
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China
Plenary Speakers:
Professor Michael Hoey, Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Liverpool, UK; Director, Liverpool Confucius Institute; author of Lexical Priming: A New Theory of Words and Language (2005); chief advisor of Macmillan English Dictionary
Professor Mike Scott, Reader in Corpus Linguistics, Aston University, UK; author of Wordsmith Tools
Dr Adam Kilgariff, Director, Lexical Computing Ltd; designer of Sketch Engine; advisor of Macmillan English Dictionary
Professor Naixing Wei, Beihang University, President of the Corpus Linguistics Society of China
Professor Maocheng Liang, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Vice president of the Corpus Linguistics Society of China
Topics include, but are not confined to:
Corpora and CALL
Corpus construction and new technology
Corpora in language teaching and learning
Access to online corpora
Software development for corpus linguistics
Learner corpora
Multimedia corpora
Bilingual corpora
Corpora in translation studies
Corpora for grammar, vocabulary, and language skills
Submission dates and details of plenary speakers, etc. are available on the website: http://www.xjtlu.edu.cn/corpus.
