Post-TaLC2024 walk through Manchester‘s Northern Quarter 🐝 #TaLC2024

The Manchester working bee is prominent as Niall Curry concludes a busy & rewarding - not to mention wonderfully organized! - TaLC2024 🐝 with 93 presentations, 130 participants, 5 workshops & 12 posters. Already looking forward to #TaLC2026 in Cáceres, Spain! 🎓🇪🇸😎 #TaLC2024

Institutions (levels, concerns, permissions, delays), disciplines (institutional practices, classification, (inter)disciplinary identity), construct of academic writing - Dana Gablasova discusses the challenges of building a corpus of EMI student writing 📚📋🎓 at TaLC2024 #TaLC2024

Managing expectation (actually), flow of information (yeah), rephrasing (well), reference (let me tell you) - Even an imagined interlocutor prompts speakers to use discourse features, as Dana Gablasova finds at TaLC2024 - and use increases with proficiency. Great stuff! 🗣️ #TaLC2024

Jasper Degraeuwe (Gent) compares corpus-based & AI-based sample sentences for Spanish language learning at TaLC2024 After tweaking the prompts, AI-generated sentences are rated higher than corpus examples, which perform better in specialist settings. Intriguing. 🎓📚🤖 #TaLC2024

So, why hasn’t corpus linguistics conquered the classroom yet? - Day 3 of TaLC 2024 starts with Tony McEnery looking back at the CL “revolution” from 1994’s minimum viable product over the Direct Revolution to today’s limited successful practices (uptake? impact?) 🎓📚 #TaLC2024

Creating learner corpora with ChatGPT? Yukio Tono (Tokyo UFS) applies & compares the AI results to his JEFLL corpus at TaLC2024 - Still (many) issues, but GPT-4o can correct (most) errors, (kinda) estimate CEFR level & (just possibly) create comparable texts. Wow. 😯🎓🤖 #TaLC2024

TPACK - Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge - the Holy Grail of teacher ed 🏆 But where does corpus linguistics fit in? In her plenary at TaLC2024 Fiona Farr presents a framework for integrating CL: corpus literacy, language pedagogy & reflective practice 🎓📚👨🏼‍🏫 #TaLC2024

Love the inscription on the reading room dome of the Manchester Central Library - seems like a fitting motto for corpus-based discovery learning… 🧭 at TaLC 2024 #TaLC2024 #wisdom

Après-TaLC2024 evening walk through Manchester’s Cathedral Quarter #TaLC2024

Talk done! ✅🎉 with Caroline Collet and Christina Juen-Czernia at TaLC 2024 Manchester #TaLC2024

A passionate argument for including the social dimension & multiple perspectives through corpus-assisted discourse analysis! The first session at TaLC 2024 concludes with Pascual Perez Paredes presenting how discourse analysis projects can enrich the language classroom 🗣️ #CADS #TaLC2024

Text types in language teaching are notoriously difficult to get right, because they are dynamic and may span several categories, as Phil Durrant points out at TaLC 2024 . He proposes a descriptor-based quantitative multidimensional profile after Biber, Goulart et al. #TaLC2024

Day 1 at TaLC 2024 starts off with Phil Durrant asking the WHY question: why do we need corpus linguistics in language teaching? We need explicit knowledge to address challenges, develop strategies, maximize opportunities & critique approaches. And we should be curious 🎓📚 #TaLC2024

First day of TaLC2024 is over, with a great selection of workshops on corpus tools, methods and classroom applications. Off to explore Manchester city & already looking forward to tomorrow! 😊🎓📚 #TaLC2024

Exploring Manchester’s Oxford road neighbourhood near the TaLC 2024 venue, with the wonderful University of Manchester campus and Manchester Museum just around the corner - and the weather holding up ⛅️🎓 #TaLC2024

Fourth workshop at TaLC 2024 - looking forward to Paula Tavares and Peter Crosthwaite presenting an applied perspective on corpus use & creating activities for multilingual language classes - complete with lesson plans, sample exercises & lots of ideas - can’t wait! 🎓📚💡 #TaLC2024

AI integration is a really intriguing feature of AntConc 4 presented by Laurence Anthony at TaLC 2024 - looking forward to testing search & corpus queries & the use of rolling context to summarize classroom discussions. Bit scary how well ChatGPT sums up the corpus... 📚🎓🤖 #AI #TaLC2024

Registered, coffee’d up, and ready to go for Laurence Anthony‘s workshop at TaLC 2024 on AntConc 4! 😊🎓☕️📚 #TaLC2024

Amazing foresight by the organizers to schedule TaLC 2024 so we could catch the penalties of yesterday’s England game in a Manchester pub! 😊⚽️ #footballiscominghome #TaLC2024

First time in Manchester, exploring the city and looking forward to TaLC2024 and presenting on multimodal corpora in the classroom with Varoline Collet and Christina Juen-Czernia #TaLC2024 🎓📚