CorpusCALL SIG Workshop

Practical demonstration workshop series on corpus use for language learning and teaching: #LancsBox

Webinar 19 April 2024 (Friday) 12pm-1pm (UK time)

LancsBox X for Applied linguistics: A practical introduction for researchers and educators

Dana Gablasova

Dana Gablasova is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University. Her research interests are in the development of L2 corpora and application of corpus methods to language learning, teaching and assessment, with particular attention to formulaic language and pragmatics. She is the director of the Corpus for Schools project.

This workshop will first introduce #LancsBox X, a software package designed for the ease of use in research and pedagogical contexts. It can be used with very large corpora and is therefore suitable for the exploration of general corpora representing a number of different genres/registers as well as specialised corpora. #LancsBox X offers an innovative architecture and user experience, which allows intuitive engagement with existing corpora as well as analysis of users’ own data. In the second part of the workshop, we will demonstrate different ways in which #LancsBox X can be employed in language teaching, with particular focus on using British National Corpus 2014 to teach about features of spoken English and genre-related differences in language use. The workshop does not presuppose any technical or statistical knowledge. #LancsBox X can be downloaded for free from https://lancsbox.lancs.ac.uk/

Vaclav Brezina

Vaclav Brezina is Professor of Corpus Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and English Language. His research interests are in corpus linguistics, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and statistics. He is the author of Statistics in Corpus Linguistics (CUP 2018) and co-author of Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics (CUP 2022) and A Frequency Dictionary of British English (2024).

Participation is free of charge. Registration link: https://link.infini.fr/lancsbox

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