[Corpora-List] Conference Announcement: THE SIXTH TEACHING AND LANGUAGE CORPORA CONFERENCE (TaLC 2004)

From: Juan Santana Lario (jsantana@ugr.es)
Date: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 01:29:44 MET DST

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    THE SIXTH TEACHING AND LANGUAGE CORPORA CONFERENCE (TaLC 2004)
           
                                     Tuesday 6th - Friday 9th July 2004
                                     Granada, Spain

     Conference website: http://www.ugr.es/local/talc6
                     e-mail: talc6@ugr.es

     

     

           

    Following the highly successful conferences in Lancaster (TaLC 1994 and TaLC 1996), Oxford (TaLC 1998), Graz (TaLC 2000) and Bertinoro (TaLC2002), the sixth international TALC conference will bring together practitioners and theorists with a common interest in the use of corpus tools for such purposes as:

    - first and second language teaching and learning
    - language awareness raising
    - teaching languages for specific purposes
    - student-centered linguistic investigation
    - interpreting and translation studies
    - cultural and historical studies
    - teaching literature

     

    The conference will be held in Granada (Spain), beginning at 9 a.m. on July 6 and ending at 7 p.m on July 9. Pre-conference tutorials and workshops will be held on July 6. Invited speakers: to be announced.

     

    SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

    TaLC 2004 invites proposals for position papers, reports of work in progress, case-histories of successful corpus applications, and introductions to relevant new resources. Proposals may be for 20-minute plenary presentations, posters, or software demonstrations. We also welcome proposals for longer pre-conference tutorials and workshops.

    Abstracts (500 words) should reach Luis Quereda (talc6@ugr.es) before 15 February 2004 as a Word or pdf attachment; pre-conference workshop proposals before 31 January 2004. All proposals will be reviewed. Authors of those accepted for inclusion will be notified by 15 April, and the programme will be finalised during May 2004.

     

    Programme committee: Bernhard Kettermann (Graz), Chris Tribble (London), Francisco Marcos Marín (Madrid), Guillermo Rojo Sánchez (Santiago de Compostela), Guy Alston (Forlì), Lou Burnard (Oxford), Luis Quereda (Granada), Martin Wynne, Michael Barlow (Rice), Silvia Bernardini (Bolonia), Tony McEnery (Lancaster)

     

    Organisation: Department of English and German Languages, University of Granada, Spain.

     

    Organising committee: Luis Quereda, Juan Santana, Encarnación Hidalgo, Graeme Porte, Carlos Márquez, Alvaro Villegas, Pedro Ureña

     

    For further information, contact Luis Quereda at talc6@ugr.es or (34) 958 249903.



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