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PhD fellowship at the intersection of co...

PhD fellowship at the intersection of corpus linguistics, second language acquisition and language testing

The Centre for English Corpus Linguistics (CECL, UCLouvain, Belgium) has an opening for a PhD fellowship in linguistics. The main objective of the PhD project will be to use the method of Comparative Judgment to explore whether the theoretical construct of ‘phraseological complexity’ (Paquot, 2019) is reflective of collective understandings of the linguistic phenomena we […]

IRIS replication award

IRIS replication award

£300 will be awarded every two years to a published (or accepted) self-labelled replication* using materials held on IRIS. Call for submissions 2022: Submissions must include: i) the article or chapter (with evidence of accepted or ‘in press’ status if not already published); ii) the materials from IRIS and any adaptations of them (adaptations should […]

Postdoctoral researcher – teaching argum

Postdoctoral researcher – teaching argumentation to enrich exchanges in educational platform forums

UCLouvain is looking for a post-doctoral researcher in linguistics, communication or education Full-time (100%) post-doctoral fellowship for one year, renewable once (max. 2 years) Start date: October 2022 at the latest This proposal for a postdoctoral position is part of the multidisciplinary project MOOCresearch2.0. « A mixed and multi-disciplinary approach to socio-cognitive conflicts in online learning […]

Learner Corpus Research Meets Second Lan...

Coming soon (January 2021) EDITORS: Bert Le Bruyn, UIL-OTS, Utrecht University Magali Paquot, FNRS – Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, UCLouvain View all contributors PUBLICATION PLANNED FOR: January 2021 AVAILABILITY: Not yet published – available from December 2020 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781108442299 Advances in Learner Corpus Research (LCR) and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) have brought these two fast-moving fields significantly closer […]

The Routledge Handbook of Second Languag...

Published 16 December 2020 The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Corpora is a state-of-the-art collection of cutting-edge scholarship at the intersection of second language acquisition and learner corpus research. It draws on data-driven, statistical analysis to outline the background, methods, and outcomes of language learning, with a range of global experts providing detailed guidelines […]

Research assistant in Natural Language P...

Research assistant in Natural Language Processing (part-time)

The Institute for Language and Communication (https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc) has an opening for a research assistant (part-time 50%) in Natural Language Processing for a period of one year, starting 1 October 2020. The position is part of a large multidisciplinary project that aims to investigate socio-cognitive conflicts in online educational platforms: “MOOCresearch2.0: A mixed-method and multidisciplinary approach to […]

Launching the Crowdsourcing Language Ass...

Launching the Crowdsourcing Language Assessment Project (CLAP)

Dear colleagues, Many of us are working with learner texts for which we would like to have valid and reliable proficiency measures. However, getting a learner corpus assessed by several trained raters is extremely costly. The aim of the Crowdsourcing Language Assessment Project (CLAP) is to investigate whether crowdsourcing can offer practical solutions to the […]