The Summer School is meant as an introduction to the field of Learner Corpus Research and will feature the following activities :
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Learner Corpus Colloquium
Participants will have the opportunity to give a brief presentation of their project at the Learner Corpus Colloquium which will take place on the first day.
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Lectures on the following topics
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Learner corpus design/compilation
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Learner corpus annotation (including error annotation)
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Learner corpus analysis (including data coding, Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis, Integrated Contrastive Model, introduction to statistics for learner corpus research)
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Interpreting learner corpus data
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Applications of learner corpus research
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Hands-on sessions in a computer lab
The hands-on sessions will help participants familiarize themselves with a range of software tools for linguistic analysis and native and learner corpora, in particular the International Corpus of Learner English and the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage.
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One-to-one sessions with members of the CECL team
The Summer School will also feature one-to-one sessions with members of the CECL team to answer questions related to the design of individual projects.
A detailed programme will be available closer to the event.