Gaëtanelle Gilquin has officially opened the "Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research" #VAR4LCR conference @uclouvain_be.

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Gaëtanelle Gilquin has officially opened the "Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research" #VAR4LCR conference @uclouvain_be. We're in for a treat:

- 3 keynotes
- 15 full papers
- 13 WiP
- 4 posters

https://www.uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl/register-and-task-variation-in-learner-corpus-research

#linguistics #CorpusLinguistics @corpuslinguistics

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The opening keynote at #VAR4LCR is by none other than the master of register variation, Doug Biber, on "Grammatical complexity in L2 writing development: Contrasting oral versus literate complexity across registers and
developmental levels", himself introduced by the doyenne of learner corpus research, Sylviane Granger. Doug showed us lots of heat maps illustrating bottom-up patterns of co-occurrences of complexity features in English L2 writing based on recent work by himself, Tove Larsson and Greg Hancock, e.g., https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2025-0017.

@corpuslinguistics

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The first research talk #WoReLa1 is presented by Valentin Werner and Lisa-Christine Altendorf on "Register and task variation in young German learner English: A (quasi-)longitudinal look at complexity". Find out more about the project here: https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/research/young-german-learner-english @corpuslinguistics #EFL #SLA