8th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference (TALC 8)
Dates
July 3 — 6, 2008
Venue
Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administrao, Lisbon, Portugal
Organizer
Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administrao
Keynote speakers
* Geoffrey Leech, emeritus professor of English linguistics, Lancaster University, UK
* Natalie Kübler, associate professor of linguistics, Université Paris 7, France
* Yukio Tono, professor of applied linguistics, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan
Call for papers
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
* Language awareness raising
* Teaching languages for specific purposes
* Student-centered linguistic investigation
* Interpreting and translation studies
* Cultural and historical studies
* Teaching literature
* Developing pedagogic grammars and learner dictionaries
TALC 8 invites proposals for position papers, reports of work in progress, case histories of successful corpus applications, and introductions to relevant new resources. Proposals may be for 20-minute papers or posters or software demonstrations.
Key dates
* May 30, 2008 — early-bird registration deadline and deadline for camera-ready proceedings paper
* July 3, 2008 — pre-conference tutorials and workshops
