Call for Papers

All topics related to learner corpus research based on any language are welcome. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Language for Academic Purposes
• Language for Specific Purposes
• Language Teaching, Assessment and Testing
• Learner corpus-based SLA studies
• Corpora as pedagogical resources
• Multimodal learner corpora
• Software for learner corpus analysis
• Corpus-based translation studies
• English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI)
• English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)
• Data mining and other explorative approaches to learner corpora
• Statistical methods in learner corpus studies
• Discourse analysis and pragmatics
• Studies related to lexis: semantics, metaphor, etc.
• NLP approaches
• Complexity, accuracy and/or fluency (CAF) analysis

There will be four different categories of presentation:

1. Full paper (20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion)
2. Work in Progress (WiP) report (10 minutes + 5 minutes for discussion)
3. Corpus/software demonstration
4. Poster

The WiP reports and posters are intended to present research still at a preliminary stage and on which researchers would like to get feedback. The language of the conference is English.