Full Title: LCR Graduate Student Conference 2023
Short Title: LCRgradconf23

Date: 25-Oct-2023 - 27-Oct-2023
Location: Bozen, Italy
Contact Person: Olga Lopopolo
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://lt-dev.eurac.edu/lcrgc23/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2023

Meeting Description:

We are very proud and happy to announce that the Graduate Student Conference in Learner Corpus Research 2023 will be hosted by the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Eurac Research (Bolzano, Italy) and will take place virtually on 25-26-27 October 2023 under the aegis of the Learner Corpus Association.
The Learner Corpus Association is an international association which aims to promote the field of learner corpus research and provide an interdisciplinary forum for all the researchers and professionals who are actively involved in the field or simply want to know more about it. 

After the great success of the first edition hosted by the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (INN) in 2021, an enthusiastic group of PhD students and researchers from Eurac Research and the University for Foreigners of Perugia (Italy) have joined forces to organize the second edition of the Conference!
The main aim of the Conference is to offer a space for MA and PhD students to discuss their ongoing projects and receive feedback from early career researchers as well as senior researchers in the field of Learner Corpus Research, while expanding their professional networks.

The central theme of this year’s Conference is called “Bridging Borders”: borders are intended here as physical, ideological and theoretical-methodological barriers, as well as professional boundaries between young and senior researchers.

Call for Papers:

We welcome submissions from MA and PhD students, as well as students who have earned their Master’s degree prior to the Conference, regardless of their current formal student status. Researchers who already hold a doctoral degree are welcome and strongly encouraged to attend as non-presenting delegates, helping to ensure the high quality of the event and to foster the careers of students within the field of LCR.
The language of the Conference is English, the conference platform will be Zoom, and there will be no conference fee.

Submissions Guidelines

All topics related to  Learner Corpus Research based on any language and from any perspective are welcome, including but not restricted to the following areas of interest:

first and second language acquisition;

learner corpora and psycholinguistics;

learner corpus annotation, corpus statistics and corpus analysis tools;

multimodal and/or multilingual learner corpora;

learner corpus design and methodological innovations or applications in fields including foreign language teaching, translation studies, language testing and Natural Language Processing.

Abstracts should provide the following:

title;

clearly articulated research question(s) and its/their relevance to LCR;

the most essential details about research approach, data and methods;

if possible, (preliminary) results and their interpretation.

You may apply for one of the following:

Digital poster presentation: 1 poster plus 3-minute video

Paper: 20 minutes plus 5-10 minutes discussion

You are welcome to submit more than one contribution, but please note that you can be the first author of only one contribution.

Digital posters are to be created in PowerPoint and submitted with a short video (max. 3 minutes) prior to the start of the conference. They will be made available throughout the conference for asynchronous comments and questions.

A paper is a 20-minute talk, given live. Presenters will have the possibility to share a PowerPoint (or similar) presentation from their own computer. A Q&A session of 5-10 minutes will follow each talk.

Instructions for poster and paper presenters, along with deadlines, will be sent out upon acceptance. We will also set up an accessible ‘Help Center’ to provide support with the digital platform, including the technical aspects of ‘sharing’ a presentation online.

Abstracts should be submitted through ConfTool. If you do not have a ConfTool account yet, you will be required to create one. To submit use the following link: https://lt.eurac.edu/lcrgc23/conftool/

Abstract submission deadline: 31 March 2023

Word limit for abstracts: 300 words excluding references. Please copy your abstract and paste it in the Abstract field in ConfTool. Do not include your name or affiliation in the abstract. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by our Scientific Committee. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by end of June 2023.

For further information:

Contact us via e-mail: [email protected]
Check the latest updates on the Conference website: https://lt-dev.eurac.edu/lcrgc23/
Find us on Twitter: @LCRgradconf
About the Learner Corpus Association (and how to join!): https://www.learnercorpusassociation.org/

The Organising Committee

Olga Lopopolo, Arianna Bienati, Elena Ferrato, Jennifer-Carmen Frey, Aivars Glaznieks, Marta Guarda, Egon Stemle, Fabio Zanda