Computational Linguistics and Language Teaching
- Date
- Friday 13 November 2020, 15:00 - 17:00
The recordings of this event are now available to view at: Part 1 and Part 2
You are cordially invited to this CELT online event which aims to bring together colleagues and postgraduate researchers who are involved in computational linguistics and/or language teaching. Developers of frequency and collocations lists are not always aware of how language teachers and learners use these tools. Similarly, not many language teachers are aware of how these lists are designed and how the context of the corpora they use can have an impact on language teaching. The event will start with ‘How corpora are designed’, then will move on to ‘How they are used for language pedagogical purposes’. We are delighted to have contributors who are academic staff and PG researchers from the School of Computing, the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies (LCS) and our Language Centre (LC) at the University of Leeds. Please see the event programme and come to share your experiences!
PROGRAMME
| 15:00 – 15:10 | Welcome | |
| 15:10 – 15:20 | Corpus-driven extraction of collocations: Experience from English and Arabic | Eric Atwell - Professor of Artificial Intelligence for Language – School of Computing |
| 15:20 – 15:35 | Frequency lists for language learning: why does your corpus matter? | Serge Sharoff - Associate Professor at the Centre for Translation Studies - LCS |
| 15:35 – 15:45 | Issues in designing a Chinese Learner Language Longitudinal Oral Corpus | Clare Wright - Lecturer in Linguistics & Language - LCS |
| 15:45 – 15:55 | Students building their own corpora | Milada Walkova - Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes – LC |
| 15:55 – 16:05 | BREAK | |
| 16:05 – 16:15 | Using Corpora in Teaching Media Arabic and Arabic Legal Translation | Hanem El-Farahaty - Lecturer in Arabic & Arabic/English Translation & Interpreting - LCS |
| 16:15 – 16:25 | How we use corpora tools on MODL5009M English for Translators | Pippa Dearns - Teaching Fellow in EAP and Translation Studies – LC |
| 16:25 – 16:35 | Using Frequency Lists of Connectors in Teaching Academic Writing | Amani Al Onayzan - PhD candidate in Linguistics - LCS |
| 16:35 – 17:00 | Q&As + Discussion |
If you are not a University of Leeds staff or student, please register your attendance no later than Thursday, 12th of November 17:00 at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/computational-linguistics-language-teaching-registration-128241583027
We will be in touch in due course with online joining details.