Corpora: June Courses at The Tuscan Word Centre

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    Courses at The Tuscan Word Centre 2002

    17th-20th June HOW TO USE CORPORA IN LANGUAGE WORK

    24th-27th June HOW TO USE CORPORA IN LANGUAGE TEACHING

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    Still a chance to come on one or both of these courses.
    If you are interested, please contact John Sinclair at:

    mailto:jms@twc.it

    as soon as possible.
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    HOW TO USE CORPORA IN LANGUAGE WORK
    17th-20th June inclusive (arrive 16th, depart 21st)
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    TWC runs such a course every year; it is open to advanced students and
    researchers, and workers in the language industries, and it is relevant to
    all who are interested in the present state of corpus work and the
    potential for the future.

    Topic Leaders:

    Prof Göran Kjellmer, University of Gothenburg
    Mr Frank Mueller, University of Tuebingen
    Dr Pernilla Daniellson, University of Birmingham
    Prof Elena Tognini Bonelli, University of Lecce
    Prof John Sinclair, The Tuscan Word Centre

    Topics include:

    Syntax studies with annotated and unannotated corpora
    Syntactic class differences as mirrored in corpora.
    Corpora in a historical perspective
    Functionally-complete Units in a contextual theory of meaning
    Corpus-based and corpus-driven linguistics
    Shallow parsing:how it's done and what you can do with it
    Linguistic data structures in language corpora
    Software for corpus access and analysis
    Annotation and corpus interrogation
    Multilingual and parallel corpora
    The lexical item
    Lexicogrammar and Phraseology

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    For further information about the course, about TWC,
    its superb location and facilities, refer to the website
    http://www.twc.it
    or send an e-mail to mailto:courses@twc.it

    The overall cost of this course, including participation, accommodation,
    all meals and local transport is 1500 euros.
    There is a strict limit on the number of places, so please apply early.

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    HOW TO USE CORPORA IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
    24th-27th June inclusive (arrive 23rd, depart 28th)
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    The Tuscan Word Centre

    Intensive Course June 17th-20th 2002 inclusive

    Corpora are already an important source of ideas, models, examples and
    descriptions for language teaching, and will gradually affect the work of
    all the teachers, and the managers, researchers and materials developers in
    the language teaching industry. Language teachers and their colleagues
    should be aware of the range of activities that are taking place all over
    the world, should be in command of the routines of access to corpora and
    the retrieval of useful results, and should be able to plan uses of corpora
    in their own practice and in their own institutions.
    A very successful course on this theme was held at TWC in October 2001, and
    a book will shortly be published recording the main presentations that were
    made.

    Topic Leaders:

    Prof. Sylviane Granger, University of Louvain
    Dr. Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham
    Dott.ssa Silvia Bernardini, University of Forlě
    Dr. Pernilla Danielsson, University of Birmingham
    Prof.ssa Elena Tognini Bonelli, University of Lecce
    Prof. John Sinclair, The Tuscan Word Centre

    Topics include:

    Learner Corpora: design, analysis and applications
    Annotation, part-of-speech tagging and error tagging
    Pedagogical and NLP applications

    The use of corpus evidence
    Phraseology, pattern, and meaning
    Corpus evidence applied to a text
    Paradigm and syntagm in language
    Technology serves pedagogic needs?

    Corpora in the classroom:
    - in the acquisition of new languages
    - in the training of translators
    data-driven learning
    meaning-focused learning tasks

    Corpus, text and discourse in LSP
    Discourse of subject areas:
    Monolingual economics
    Bilingual - tourism.

    Software for corpus access and analysis
    Parallel corpora
    Annotation, phrase building
    Text-oriented programming

    New priorities in theory
    Facts and observation
    The sheltered classroom and the big wide world

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    For further information about the course, about TWC,
    its superb location and facilities, refer to the website
    http://www.twc.it
    or send an e-mail to mailto:courses@twc.it

    The overall cost of this course, including participation, accommodation,
    all meals and local transport is 1500 euros.
    There is a strict limit on the number of places, so please apply early.



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