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SUMMER SCHOOL
LEARNER CORPUS RESEARCH: THEORY AND
APPLICATIONS
13-17 September 2004
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Organised by the
Centre for
English Corpus Linguistics
University of Louvain
Course description
Learner corpora are electronic collections of texts produced
by foreign/second language learners. This new resource has a lot to offer
both to theoreticians interested in the process of second language
acquisition and to practitioners keen to produce more efficient teaching
and learning tools and classroom methodologies.
Interest in this new resource is growing fast and a great many learner
corpora are being collected and analysed internationally by academics and
publishers. While researchers can rely to a large extent on the methods
and tools developed by corpus linguists working on native data, they need
to be aware that learner corpora are special corpora, which differ in
significant ways from native corpora and therefore call for their own
methods of analysis and software tools.
The aim of the summer school is to introduce learner corpus research
through a series of lectures, hands-on sessions and individual tutoring.
It is intended both for researchers who have recently embarked on a
learner corpus project and those who simply want to know more about this
new field of research.
Course Director: Professor Sylviane Granger, Director of the
Centre for English Corpus Linguistics
Lecturers: Sylvie De Cock, Sylviane Granger, Fanny
Meunier
The three lecturers have been involved in the collection and analysis of
written and spoken learner corpora for over a decade. They are attached
to the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics at the University of Louvain
which coordinates two international learner corpus projects: the
International Corpus of Learner English and the Louvain
International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage.
Language of instruction: English
Number of participants: 25
Venue: University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (30 km south of
Brussels, direct train connection)
http://www.ucl.ac.be
(French version)
http://www.ucl.ac.be/en/intro.html (English version)
Topics covered in the lectures
Learner corpus collection (written and spoken data): corpus design criteria and markup
Learner corpus annotation (POS-tagging and error tagging)
Computer-aided analysis of lexis, grammar and discourse
Learner corpora and Second Language Acquisition research
Pedagogical applications of learner corpora(dictionaries, teaching materials, CALL programs)
Hands-on in computer lab
International Corpus of Learner English CD-ROM (S. Granger, E. Dagneaux & F. Meunier eds, 2002)
University of Louvain Error Editor
Text retrieval software programs (concordancers)
Tutoring
Individual guidance on participants’ projects
Schedule
9.15 am - 12.15 pm
1.30 pm - 4.30 pm
Enrolment fee
600 Euro. Reduced price for full-time students (upon presentation of official documentary evidence): 450 Euro.
The enrolment fee includes tuition, morning and afternoon refreshments and a course dinner.
Upon acceptance of registration, a non-refundable deposit of 75 Euro will be required.
Accommodation
Rooms have been pre-booked at the university guesthouse (http://www.relais.ucl.ac.be/eng/accueil.htm). Price single room (breakfast included): 30 Euro (shared bathroom) or 46 Euro (en-suite).
Meals
Lunch and dinner can be taken at the many snack bars and restaurants on campus.
Application
If you are interested in taking part in the summer school, please fill in the attached form and send it to Sylviane Granger <granger@lige.ucl.ac.be>.
The deadline for applications is 15 April, 2004. Written confirmation of acceptance will be sent no later than 30 April, 2004. Upon confirmation, a non-refundable deposit will be required. Do not send any money before you receive confirmation that your application has been accepted.
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