A Workshop on: Corpus Linguistics

A Workshop on: Corpus Linguistics An overview of methods, research findings and applications Date & Time: October 26, 2015 | 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Location: EDT 450 Speakers: Randi Reppen (Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESL at Northern Arizona University) and Doug Biber (Regents’ Professor of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University). This session will combine lectures and workshops to provide an introduction to corpus analysis for linguistic research and language teaching. We will begin by introducing corpus linguistics as a research approach, providing case studies that illustrate the unexpected research findings that have emerged from corpus analyses, and discussing how those unexpected findings might directly influence practices in language instruction. We will then discuss case studies that have investigated particular linguistic research questions, showing again how corpus research often leads to unanticipated findings (related, for example, to the kinds of grammatical complexity found in conversation versus academic writing, or the kinds of phraseological chunks found in the professional writing of L1-English versus L2-English academics). Finally, we will provide the opportunity for hands-on practice working with corpora and corpus-analysis tools available for research and classroom applications. The workshop will provide ample opportunity for audience participation and questions. Please submit your registration HERE. For more information, please visit the LRC website.
Location:
EDT 450
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/workshop-corpus-linguistics