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January 16, 2023
A new stage in the Crowdsourcing Language Assessment project
In 2020, CECL members Magali Paquot, Rachel Rubin, and Nathan Vandeweert launched the “Crowdsourcing Language Acquisition” project (CLAP), which aimed to develop a novel method for generating fast and reliable assessments of texts in learner corpora.
The method is based upon an assessment...
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January 10, 2023
Elen Le Foll wins the Richard M. Hogg Prize !
Congratulations to Elen le Foll on winning the 2022 Richard M. Hogg Prize, with the paper “Schulenglisch: A multi-dimensional description of the variety of English taught in German schools”! This Prize is awarded by the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE).
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December 16, 2022
Learner Corpus Research Summer School
The Centre for English Corpus Linguistics (CECL) is organizing the fifth edition of its Learner Corpus Research Summer School, which will take place at the University of Louvain, Belgium, from 3 to 7 July 2023.
The aim of the Summer School is to introduce learner corpus research...
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July 06, 2022
Congratulations Dr. Vandeweerd!
Nathan Vandeweerd defended his PhD dissertation on Tuesday 5 July 2022!
His thesis entitled 'Phraseological complexity in L2 French: Investigating variation across modes' was supervised by Magali Paquot (UCLouvain) and Alex Housen (VUB).
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June 20, 2022
Nathan Vandeweerd's public defense
Nathan Vandeweerd will defend his PhD dissertation entitled ‘Phraseological complexity in L2 French: Investigating variation across modes’ on 5 July 2022.
The defense will be broadcasted live via Teams. The link will be given at this address:...
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