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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 17d

One for the calendars 📅 #IVACS2026 will take place in Malta, July 1-3 2026! I'm honoured to be among the plenary speakers. More details on the conference and call for papers here: www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs...

Details on conference call for papers, available at the link.

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Phil Durrant @phil-durrant.bsky.social · 28d

I am seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the ESRC-funded project 'Writing Tasks at School and University'.
The post is full-time and will run from 1st November 2025 to 31st January 2029. See below for a brief overview of the project.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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Phil Durrant @phil-durrant.bsky.social · May 24

In case anyone needs some weekend reading, my contribution to a special issue of Applied Corpus Linguistics, dedicated to corpus research into children's writing, is now available open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What can a corpus tell us about school writing? Findings, challenges, and future directions

Much child corpus research has focused on the language of school writing. In the first part of this paper, I discuss what this work can contribute to …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Paweł Szudarski @pawelszudarski.bsky.social · Feb 15

Happy to share my review of 'Vocabulary, Corpus and Language Teaching', just out in ELT Journal.

#artificialintelligence #ChatGPT #elt

academic.oup.com/eltj/advance...

Vocabulary, corpus and language teaching. A machine-generated literature overview

The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 can be classified as a pivotal moment, one that compels us to pause and consider some fundamental questions related

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Paweł Szudarski @pawelszudarski.bsky.social · Feb 9

Call for papers: BAAL SIG Vocabulary Studies Annual Conference 2025

Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Vocabulary in Multilingual Contexts, 28-30 May 2025, University of Edinburgh, UK

A title and a 300-word abstract should be submitted tinyurl.com/BAALVOCABSIG... by the 19th of February 2025.

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Phil Durrant @phil-durrant.bsky.social · Feb 5

Thank you!

Phil Durrant @phil-durrant.bsky.social · Jan 29

Our recent webinar for those interested in applying for a Hornby scholarship is now available online...https://youtu.be/yEQq1iqaYq0?si=RMoQrEzqjOlBvL8j

Phil Durrant @phil-durrant.bsky.social · Jan 20

Hornby Scholarships for international ELT professionals from middle- and low-income countries to study MEd TESOL at Exeter University.

For more information and guidance, you are welcome to attend a webinar 28 Jan 1200-1300 (UK time). Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Phil Durrant @phil-durrant.bsky.social · Jan 28

My recent inaugural lecture on corpus research into academic language is now available on YouTube... youtu.be/hlonWrFVgQo?...

Professor Philip Durrant's Inaugural Lecture

YouTube video by University of Exeter

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Jan 27

Newcastle shrinks ‘unfunded’ research time under £30m cuts.

University tells staff to reduce research activity without external funding, amid potential for 300 redundancies

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Newcastle shrinks ‘unfunded’ research time under £30m cuts - Research Professional News

University tells staff to reduce research activity without external funding, amid potential for 300 redundancies

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Tove Larsson @tovelarsson.bsky.social · Jan 26

Deadline extended until Jan 31!

Tove Larsson @tovelarsson.bsky.social · Nov 27

📣CALL FOR PAPERS📣 Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025:

uclouvain.be/en/research-...

Call for papers

To mark the end of a Hoover Seedfund collaborative project between the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and the Department of English at Northern Arizona ...

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danagablas.bsky.social @danagablas.bsky.social · Jan 20

We are delighted to announce that the applications for the free Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics 2025 are now open! Join us this summer at @lancasteruni.bsky.social to learn more about corpora and their applications.

16-20 June 2025

More information: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...

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Phil Durrant @phil-durrant.bsky.social · Jan 20

Hornby Scholarships for international ELT professionals from middle- and low-income countries to study MEd TESOL at Exeter University.

For more information and guidance, you are welcome to attend a webinar 28 Jan 1200-1300 (UK time). Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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SylvGranger @sylvgranger.bsky.social · Jan 18

Deadline extension: Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025: Final deadline 31 January 2024. Conference website: uclouvain.be/en/research-...

Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR)

This conference, to be held on 7 and 8 July 2025 in Louvain-la-Neuve, will mark the closing of the Hoover Seedfund project on "Learner Corpus Research and Register Variation", a collaborative initiati...

uclouvain.be

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Graham Hall @ghinwhitleybay.bsky.social · Jan 14

A.S. Hornby Trust:

The Trust is pleased to be offering 10 Hornby Scholarships to study for the Master’s degree in TESOL at the University of Exeter, UK, for the 2025-26 academic year.
(deadline 26th Feb)

www.hornby-trust.org.uk/ma-tesol-sch...

MEd TESOL Scholarships - Hornby Trust

www.hornby-trust.org.uk

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Phil Durrant @phil-durrant.bsky.social · Jan 14

very interesting. Is there a link to the data this was based on?

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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · Jan 14

Both training course & symposium are *free* to attend!

Help us spread the word!

#digitalhumanities #corpuslinguistics #concordancetools

@lanthony.bsky.social @schtepf.bsky.social
@anteangaeile.bsky.social @proftaylor.bsky.social
@violawiegand.bsky.social

DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · Jan 10

Join us for the Reading Concordances Symposium and Training Day in Erlangen, 19-21 March 2025!
We're offering a one-day course on concordance analysis and a two-day event with invited speakers and a poster session.

See here for more:
go.fau.de/1beba

@rc21project.bsky.social

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FreeTxt @freetxt.bsky.social · Jan 10

FreeTxt supports the analysis and visualisation of free-text data in both English and Welsh (e.g. data from surveys, questionnaires, feedback fora): freetxt.app

TestunRhydd/FreeTxt

freetxt.app

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Robbie Love @robbielove.org · Jan 10

One week left to submit abstracts / proposals for #CL2025!

Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025 @cl2025.co.uk · Jan 2

📢 Call for Papers: Corpus Linguistics 2025 📢

#CL2025 • Birmingham, UK • Monday 30th June - Thursday 3rd July 2025

Submissions are open for paper presentations, poster presentations, thematic panels, and pre-conference workshops: www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-pap...

Submission deadline: 17th January

CL2025 - Call for papers

Abstract submission is now open here

www.cl2025.co.uk

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Phil Durrant @phil-durrant.bsky.social · Jan 10

Call for Papers: Applied Corpus Linguistics special issue on corpus research into children's writing.

For details, see phildurrant.net/special-issu...

If you are interested in contributing, please send a 300-word abstract to me ([email protected]) by 31 January.

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Talia Isaacs @taliaisaacs.bsky.social · Dec 24

Are you an #appliedlinguist #SLA looking to make a career move as Associate or Full Prof? A rare opening at a prestigious #RussellGroup university in the charming West Country, a gorgeous part of the UK-much more affordable than London & Oxbridge. Deadline: Feb. 2 jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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Phil Durrant @phil-durrant.bsky.social · Dec 13

Our new paper out now in Applied Linguistics…

academic.oup.com/applij/advan...

Linking adverbials in children’s writing: Exploring variation across year groups, genres, and disciplines

Abstract. Linking adverbials is a crucial element in successful academic writing that is particularly challenging for both first and second-language learne

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Phil Durrant @phil-durrant.bsky.social · Dec 13

Adjective + noun collocations in L2 spoken English. How robust is the role of proficiency?

A great addition to the literature on collocation use and L2 proficiency.

www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Adjective + noun collocations in L2 spoken English | John Benjamins

Abstract This study explores the development of L2 phraseological knowledge, focusing on the relationship between L2 proficiency and the use of adjective-noun combinations from the perspective of coll...

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Tove Larsson @tovelarsson.bsky.social · Nov 27

📣CALL FOR PAPERS📣 Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025:

uclouvain.be/en/research-...

Call for papers

To mark the end of a Hoover Seedfund collaborative project between the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and the Department of English at Northern Arizona ...

uclouvain.be

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