CorpusCALL SIG

EUROCALL 2003 saw the renewal of interest in corpora and language learning and teaching in the association, with a pre-conference workshop organized by Martin Wynne and Ylva Berglund, Oxford Text Archive, and Pernilla Danielsson, University of Birmingham, a number of papers on corpora and language learning and teaching delivered in parallel sessions, and a plenary lecture on "Spoken corpora and methodology" by Professor Michael McCarthy, University of Nottingham. During the conference a meeting, chaired by Ylva Berglund and attended by approximately 17 people, was held to discuss the possibility of setting up a Special Interest Group. The application for the CORPUSCALL SIG was accepted by the Executive Committee at its meeting in Vienna in March 2004.

The aims of the SIG are:

To enable members to share information on applications of corpora in language learning and teaching.
To take advantage of the international membership of EUROCALL to share information on applications in as many languages as possible.
To gather information on work in progress, projects and products of members of the SIG and disseminate it via the website of the SIG.
To participate actively in EUROCALL conferences and contribute articles on this field to EUROCALL-related publications.
To organise EUROCALL pre-conference workshops.
To encourage invitations for members of the group to visit each other's institutions with a view to developing collaboration.
To develop joint funded projects.
To liaise with the BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG on matters of mutual interest.

A CorpusCALL discussion list has been set up on the JISCMAIL service.

For further information about the SIG, please contact the SIG chairperson Ylva Berglund, of the Oxford Text Archive, or the SIG secretary, Sabine Braun, of the Universität Tübingen.