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Posts by Phil Durrant

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

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

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

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

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...

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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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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 …

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...

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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

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

#artificialintelligence #ChatGPT #elt

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

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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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Thank you!

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

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Professor Philip Durrant's Inaugural Lecture
Professor Philip Durrant's Inaugural Lecture YouTube video by University of Exeter

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

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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

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...

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Deadline extended until Jan 31!

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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...

1 year ago 20 18 0 2

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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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...

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-...

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MEd TESOL Scholarships - Hornby Trust

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...

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

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

Help us spread the word!

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TestunRhydd/FreeTxt

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

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

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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 (p.l.durrant@exeter.ac.uk) by 31 January.

1 year ago 3 1 0 0
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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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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

Our new paper out now in Applied Linguistics…

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

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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...

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...

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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 ...

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

uclouvain.be/en/research-...

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