8th TEACHING AND LANGUAGE CORPORA CONFERENCE

3 July 2008 (pre-conference tutorials and workshops)
4-6 July 2008 (main conference)



Following the previous seven and highly successful TaLC conferences in Lancaster (1994 and 1996), Oxford (1998), Graz (2000), Bertinoro (2002), Granada (2004) and Paris (2006), the 8th international Teaching and Language Corpora conference is going to be held at the Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração, Lisbon, and will bring together practitioners and theorists with a common interest in the use of corpora for:

- first and second language teaching and learning
- language awareness raising
- teaching languages for specific purposes
- student-centered linguistic investigation
- interpreting and translation studies
- cultural and historical studies
- teaching literature
- developing pedagogic grammars and learner dictionaries