TaLC 2024

16th Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC) Conference

July 7th to 10th 2024

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

The 16th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference will take place at the Manchester Metropolitan University, hosted by the Department of Languages, Information and Communications and the Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics at the Manchester Metropolitan University Business School. Full details on travel and accommodation here.

The Call for Papers is closed.

Check out the workshops and plenaries we have in store at TaLC 2024.

Registration is open! Register here!

Plenary speakers:

  • Prof. Silvia Bernardini, University of Bologna
  • Prof. Philip Durrant, University of Exeter
  • Prof. Fiona Farr, University of Limerick
  • Prof. Bethany Gray, Iowa State University
  • Prof. Tony McEnery, Lancaster University

Further details are available here.

The programme will consist of full papers, pre-conference workshops, poster sessions, as well as invited plenary talks. Papers related to the use of corpora for the learning of any language are welcome.

The programme starts with pre-conference workshops on Sunday 7th July; the main conference will start on Monday morning (8th July) and finish on Wednesday (10th July).

Topics that are within the scope of TaLC include, but are not necessarily limited to, corpus-based approaches to language learning, teaching and assessment in the following areas:

  • Teaching first and second languages (including data-driven learning materials and student-centred linguistic investigation)
  • Research on second language acquisition and learner corpus research
  • Learner language
  • Teaching languages for specific purposes, professional purposes, workplaces, business, etc.
  • Using corpora across the curriculum (including all pedagogic contexts)
  • Teaching interpreting and translation 
  • Teaching literature, culture and history 
  • Teaching intercultural communication 
  • Developing pedagogic grammars and learner dictionaries
  • Developing corpora/tools/resources for language learning and teaching
  • Teacher education
  • Teaching of corpus methods to students and researchers
  • Mobile language learning/teaching and corpora
  • Corpora for English-medium instruction
  • Corpus linguistics, digital pedagogy, and learning technologies

IMPORTANT DATES:

Abstract submission opens: 10th November 2023

Updated abstract submission closes: 31st January 2024 at 11pm UTC.

Updated Notification of acceptance of papers: 12th February 2024

Registration details and fees will be posted in March 2024