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11th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference, 2014 (TaLC 11): 
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/talc2014

The next TaLC conference  will take place in July at Lancaster 
University, UK. 

The TaLC series of conferences was inaugurated in 1994. For this 20th 
anniversary event, we are delighted to welcome the eleventh TaLC back 
to Lancaster, the original host institution.

TaLC 11 will run from Monday 21st to Wednesday 23rd July (inclusive), 
with a pre-conference workshop day on Sunday 20th July.

With this announcement, we issue our CALL FOR PARTICIPATION. 

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Registration
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Online registration is now open. Please go to:

http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/talc2014/register.php

Discounted EARLY BIRD RATES are now available, until April 14th:

 - GBP 230 (normal rate)
 - GBP 155 (reduced student rate)
 
For full pricing details, see our website.

For any queries related to registration, email:

   talc2014@lancaster.ac.uk

On-campus accommodation can be booked when you register; see the 
website for full details.

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Invited speakers
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We are delighted to announce that the following scholars have agreed to 
give plenary talks at TaLC 11:

  * Laurence Anthony (Waseda University, Japan)
  * Nick Ellis (University of Michigan, USA)
  * Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska  (University of Warsaw, Poland)
  * Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham, UK)
  * Yukio Tono (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan)

  
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Conference programme
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A **draft** programme for the main conference is now available online:

  http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/talc2014/programme.php

Please note that all details in the draft programme are subject to 
change.


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Workshop day
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On the pre-conference workshop day, the following half-day workshops 
will be offered.

MORNING SESSION:

 - An introduction to working with written and spoken corpus data
   Led by: Chris Tribble and Guy Aston

 - Analysing English vocabulary with the New General Service List: 
   Pedagogical applications
   Led by: Vaclav Brezina

 - Unix for corpus-users: a beginner’s guide
   Led by: John Williams

AFTERNOON SESSION:

 - Helping L2 learners and translators find L1-L2 equivalence with 
   the help of corpora
   Led by: Ana Frankenberg-Garcia

 - Readability and vocabulary management
   Led by: George Weir and Laurence Anthony

 - Keyword and collocation statistics: under the hood of CQPweb
   Led by: Andrew Hardie

The additional registration fee for the workshop day is GBP 60 
(GBP for students). Attendees will have a separate choice of which 
workshop to attend in the morning and in the afternoon.

Short descriptions of the workshops are now available on the website:

   http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/talc2014/workshops.php
   
Fuller descriptions will be added online in due course.


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Key dates
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  * 14th April 2014 - early bird registration closes
  * 29th June 2014 - final deadline for registration
  * 29th June 2014 - final deadline for cancellation with refund of 
    registration fees
  * 20th / 21st July 2014 - pre-conference workshop day / main 
    conference begins


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About TaLC 11
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This conference is hosted by the UCREL research centre
<http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk>, which brings together the Department of 
Linguistics and English Language <http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk> with 
the School of Computing and Communications <http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk>
at Lancaster University.

Email:      talc2014@lancaster.ac.uk
Web:        http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/talc2014 

Organising committee:

  * Andrew Hardie (chair)
  * Tony McEnery
  * Paul Rayson
  
Programme committee:

  * Guy Aston (University of Bologna, Italy)
  * Alex Boulton (Université de Lorraine, France)
  * Lynne Flowerdew (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
  * Ana Frankenberg-Garcia (University of Surrey, UK)
  * Natalie Kübler (Université Paris Diderot, France)
  * Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska (University of Warsaw, Poland)
  * Ute Römer (Georgia State University, USA)
  * James Thomas (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
  * Yukio Tono (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
  * Chris Tribble (King's College, London, UK)