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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 […]

Second round of the IRIS Replication Awa...

Second round of the IRIS Replication Award is now open.

£300 will be awarded every two years to a published (or accepted) self-labelled replication using materials held on IRIS. Direct, partial, and conceptual replications are all eligible. The study must self-label with the term ‘replication’ in the title and/or abstract. 2018 Winner: Suzuki, Y. (2017). The optimal distribution of practice for the acquisition of L2 […]

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 max. period of three years, starting 1 October 2019. 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 […]

PhD fellowship in Corpus Linguistics and...

PhD fellowship in Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (L2 French)

The Centre for English Corpus Linguistics has an opening for a PhD fellowship for a total period of four years, starting February – June 2018. The position is part of the FNRS-funded research project entitled Lexicogrammatical complexity in French as a Foreign Language: the impact of mode. The project is supervised by Magali Paquot (UCLouvain), […]

The IRIS Replication Award

£300 will be awarded annually to a published (or accepted) self-labelled replication* using materials held on IRIS. Submissions must include: i) the article/chapter (with evidence of ‘in press’ status if not already published); ii) the materials from IRIS and any adaptations of them (adaptations should also be uploaded to IRIS, with a Note to link […]