Corpora: Conference Announcement: TALC 98

Teaching And Language Corpora 1998 (talc98@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk)
Fri, 15 May 1998 18:01:46 +0100 (BST)

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*****Call for registration: TALC98********

The 3rd international conference on TEACHING AND LANGUAGE CORPORA
will be held at Keble College, Oxford between 24 and 27 July 1998.

The use of large computer-held corpora of real language, no longer
novel in linguistic research, is increasingly a focus of attention for
language teachers. Experiments in data driven learning and
corpus-based methods are beginning to bear fruit in a wide range of
language teaching environments. This international conference will
bring together practitioners and theorists with a common interest in
the usability of corpus data for such purposes as:
* language teaching and learning
* student-centred learning and investigation
* cross-linguistic comparison
* cultural and historical studies

The conference programme includes:

* A choice of pre-conference Workshops
Classroom Corpora (Chris Tribble); Parallel Corpora (Knut Hofland);
and The Battle of the Giants: BoE vs. BNC (Jem Clear and Guy Aston)

* Invited lectures from Jem Clear (COBUILD), and from Professsor Jean
Aitchison (Oxford)

* About 40 formal papers

* Poster sessions

* Book and software exhibits

Full details of the speakers and the programme, including rates and
registration forms, are available at the conference website:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~talc98

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* Registrations received before 29th MAY will qualify for a discount *
* An additional registration fee will be charged for Workshops *
* Workshop Registration will close on 30 June; places are limited *
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