LINGUIST List 22.4099 Thu Oct 20 2011 Calls: Applied Ling, Language Acquisition, Text/Corpus Ling/Poland Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Agnieszka Lenko , TaLC10 Teaching and Language Corpora Message 1: TaLC10 Teaching and Language Corpora Date: 19-Oct-2011 From: Agnieszka Lenko <a.lenkouw.edu.pl> Subject: TaLC10 Teaching and Language Corpora E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: TaLC10 Teaching and Language Corpora Short Title: TaLC10 Date: 11-Jul-2012 - 14-Jul-2012 Location: Warsaw, Poland Contact Person: Agnieszka Lenko Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://talc10.ils.uw.edu.pl Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2012 Meeting Description: The 10th bi-annual Teaching and Language Corpora Conference will take place in Warsaw, Poland on 12-14 July 2012. Pre-conference workshops and tutorials will be offered on 11 July. The conference will bring together practitioners and theorists with a common interest in the use of corpora for: - First and second language teaching and learning (including data-driven learning materials and student-centred linguistic investigation) - Language awareness raising - Teaching languages for specific purposes - Teaching interpreting and translation - Teaching culture and history - Teaching literature - Teaching inter-cultural communication - Developing pedagogic grammars and learner dictionaries - Teacher education - Research on second language acquisition The corpus resources include: - General corpora - LSP corpora - Written and spoken corpora - Multimodal corpora - Simplified corpora - Learner corpora - Web as a corpus The following speakers have kindly accepted our invitation to give a keynote presentation at the conference: Professor Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk University of Łódź, Poland Professor Randi Reppen North Arizona University, US Professor Barbara Seidlhofer University of Vienna, Austria Mr. James Thomas Masaryk University, Czech Republic Dr. Chris Tribble King's College, London, UK Call for Papers: TaLC 10 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 papers, posters, or software demonstrations. We also welcome proposals for pre-conference tutorials and workshops. The workshops should be 2.5 - 3 hours long and involve hands-on activities. The official language of the conference will be English. All proposals should be approximately 500 words, excluding references. Authors are requested to refrain from citing their own work to preserve anonymity. The proposals should be sent to the following address: talc10uw.edu.pl The deadline for submission of papers, posters and software demos is 31 January 2012. The deadline for submission of pre-conference workshops and tutorials is 29 February 2012. All proposals will be blind reviewed. Authors of those selected for presentation at the conference will be notified in the middle of April. The authors will be required to prepare written versions of their presentations in the form of short papers of 2500-3000 words to be submitted by 31 May 2011. The papers will be included in an unedited volume of the conference proceedings, which will be published on a CD and distributed to the all the participants during the conference. Selected full-length papers will be published in an edited volume with a leading international publisher after the conference. Conference Organizer: Agnieszka Lenko Institute of Applied Linguistics University of Warsaw Browarna 8/10 00-311 Warsaw, Poland Conference email: talc10uw.edu.pl Conference website: http://talc10.ils.uw.edu.pl Fax: +48 22 8261391 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 20-Oct-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.