[Corpora-List] Short course in Corpora and Language Teaching, 9th - 12th June 2003, University of Brighton

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    Corpora and Language Teaching

    A SHORT COURSE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON

    Monday 9th - Thursday 12th June 2003

    Taught by RAF SALKIE, MICHAEL RUNDELL and CHRIS TRIBBLE

    The Course
    Corpora and Language Teaching offers anyone with a professional or academic interest in language teaching a unique opportunity to consolidate their practical skills, learn about the latest developments, and develop their understanding of the relevant theoretical issues.

    It is especially aimed at language-teachers, directors of studies, teacher-trainers, applied linguists, materials writers, and anyone else in the language-teaching community.

    Objectives
    One of the chief goals of the course is to offer a rapid 'skills upgrade' in an intensive programme of seminars and hands-on practical work. During the course, you will work alongside other professionals, as well as with the full-time students taking our MSc in Lexical Computing and Lexicography.

    Content
    The topics include:
    · monolingual and multilingual corpora, and their relevance for language teaching and materials writing
    · other electronic resources and their potential
    · concordancers and other data-mining software for extracting pedagocially-relevant material
    · learner corpora and their relevance to teaching and testing materials
    · dictionaries for language learners: current developments and future possibilities

    Key issues and the theoretical ideas that help us to understand them better are first discussed before being further explored through practical exercises in data analysis and materials creation at the computer.

    Course Tutors
    Raphael Salkie is Professor of Language Studies at the University of Brighton. He has published widely in linguistics and translation. He is an expert on the use of parallel corpora in teaching and research, and runs the INTERSECT project at Brighton.

    Michael Rundell is a professional lexicographer, and has been closely involved in the 'corpus revolution' that has transformed ELT dictionaries and is beginning to have a similar impact in other areas of language teaching. He has edited several market-leading dictionaries, including the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, and he is Editor-in-Chief of the recently-published Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners, which was written using software developed at ITRI, University of Brighton.

    Chris Tribble - one of the best-known figures in this field - will also be joining us for a day to give us the benefit of his extensive experience in using corpora in the classroom.

    Date
    Monday 9th - Thursday 12th June, 2003

    Venue
    Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI), University of Brighton, U.K.

    Cost
    First delegate - £822.50 (including VAT)
    Second and subsequent delegates from the same institution - £646.25 (including VAT)

    Further Information and Enrolment
    Please visit:
    http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/courses/CPDLex/modules/LCM12.html
    or contact Tel: (44) 1273 643222 E-mail: itel@brighton.ac.uk

    Enrolment forms are avaliable for download at http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/courses/CPDLex/registration.html
    Please return the completed registration form either by fax to (44) 1273 643227 or by post to ITEL (Lexical Computing Short Courses), University of Brighton, Lewes Road, Brighton BN2 4AT, UK



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