conference 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.