01/22/2016 09:00
Conference room at the Tànger Building (55.309), Edifici Roc Boronat
Organized by Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada
Contact phone: 935422334
9.00 – 9.20
Welcome: Janet DeCesaris and Anne O'Keeffe
9.20 – 9.45
“That’s not true!” “Yes, it is!”: disagreement in Catalan in conversations among friends and family
Alba Milà-Garcia
9.45 – 10.10
“You know what I’m focking talking about”: Taboo Language in Paul Howard’s Fictionalized Irish English
Ana María Terrazas-Calero
10.10 – 10.35
“She’s done it again, silly cow”: structures from beneath the corpus radar
10.35 – 11.00
The lingua franca English of a community of speakers of other languages: corpus conclusions
Kieran Harrington
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee break
11.30 – 11.55
“I am exceedingly pleased at coming to this land of plenty”… Exploring happiness-like concepts in pre-Famine and Famine Irish emigrants’ personal correspondence
Nancy E. Avila-Ledesma, Jesús Romero-Trillo
11.55 – 12.20
Darker shades of grey: experiments in multi-dimensional error analysis
Paula Buttery, Andrew Caines, Michael McCarthy
12.20 – 12.45
Crowdsourcing a bilingual speech corpus
Andrew Caines, Christian Bentz, Calbert Graham, Paula Buttery
12.45 – 13.15
Issues in the Design and Transcription of Virtual Grammar Lessons
Abdullah Almuhaya
13.15 - 14.30
Lunch
14.30 – 14.55
Using corpus research methods to exploit language learning opportunities in the EAP classroom: questions raised and lessons learned
Jane Templeton
14.55 – 15.20
From making my homework to having twenty three years: A Corpus-Based diachronic analysis of ESOL Learner’s Spoken and Written Errors
Justin McNamara
15.20 – 15.45
Specifying specify: Corpus evidence for a discipline-specific multi-word approach to academic vocabulary selection
Geraint Rees
15.45 – 16.15
16.15 – 16.40
The English Grammar Profile – an online corpus-based grammar competency resource
Anne O’Keeffe, Geraldine Mark
16.40 – 17.05
Comparing the English Grammar Profile to typical grammar coverage in English Language Teaching materials: rationale for a research project
Graham Burton
17.05 – 17.30
Evolving senses in dictionaries and corpora: a case study avalanche, browse and flag
Janet DeCesaris, Anna Tudela
17.30
Closing remarks
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