LINGUIST List 23.218 Thu Jan 12 2012 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: 11-Jan-2012 From: Agnieszka Lenko <talc10uw.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 2nd Call for Papers: This is just a gentle reminder that 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 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. For all information please consult the conference site at http://talc10.ils.uw.edu.pl or contact the conference organizer Agnieszka Lenko at talc10uw.edu.pl. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 12-Jan-2012       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.