Call for Papers


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 (TaLC 8) 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

TALC 8 invites proposals for position papers, reports of work in progress, case-histories of successful corpus applications, and introductions to relevant new resources. Proposals may be for 20-minute papers or posters or software demonstrations.

We also welcome proposals for pre-conference tutorials and workshops. This year, we would particularly like this to include hands-on workshops on the use of corpora to teach specific languages, especially English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish.

The official language of the main conference is English. Language-specific pre-conference workshops should be presented in the language being focused on.

Proposals should follow the guidelines supplied and be sent to:
t a l c 8 l i s b o n @ g m a i l . c o m

Proposals for papers, posters and software demos should be sent before 15 February 2008. Pre-conference tutorials and workshop proposals should be sent before 31 January 2008.

All proposals will be blind reviewed. Authors of those accepted for inclusion will be notified by 30 April.

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Authors of accepted proposals will be required to produce a short paper of 2000-3000 words for the Lisbon proceedings by 30 May. Camera-ready papers should conform to the proceedings guidelines supplied and sent to
t a l c 8 l i s b o n @ g m a i l . c o m . After the conference, subsequent publication of a volume with selected papers in a revised and longer form is also likely.