Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC) is the name of a biennial conference that focusses on data-driven language learning (DDL), an approach to language teaching and learning.

These conferences aim to promote classroom applications of language corpora, data-driven learning, as well as the creation of corpus-informed teaching materials and other resources, and foster discussion between practitioners, researchers and theorists from all over the world.

The use of corpora in language teaching has been growing steadily since Tim Johns's pioneering work at Birmingham University in the last two decades of the 20th century.

TaLC has been held at various European universities since the 1990s:

1994: Lancaster, UK

  • Hosted by
  • Publication: Wilson & McEnery. Corpora in language education and research [1]


1996: Lancaster, UK

  • Hosted by
  • Publication: Wichmann, Fligelstone, McEnery & Knowles. Proceedings of TaLC 1996. [2]


1998: Oxford, UK

  • Hosted by Lou Burnard
  • Publication: Burnard & McEnery. Rethinking language pedagogy from a corpus perspective. [3]


2000: Graz, Austria

  • Hosted by Bernhard Kettemann
  • Publication: Kettemann & Marko Teaching and learning by doing corpus analysis.[4]


2002: Bertinoro, Italy

  • Hosted by Guy Aston
  • Publication: Aston, Bernardini & Stewart[5]


2004: Granada, Spain

  • Hosted by
  • Publication: Hidalgo, Quereda & Santana. Corpora in the foreign language classroom.[6]


2006: Paris, France

  • Hosted by Natalie Kübler
  • Publication: Kübler Corpora, language, teaching, and resources: From theory to practice.[7]


2008: Lisbon, Portugal

  • Hosted by Ana Frankenberg-Garcia
  • Publication: Frankenberg-Garcia, Flowerdew & Aston New trends in corpora and language learning[8]


2010: Brno, Czech Republic

  • Hosted by James Thomas
  • Publication: Thomas & Boulton Input, process and product: Developments in teaching and language corpora.


2012: Warsaw, Poland

  • Hosted by Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska
  • Publication: Leńko-Szymańska & Boulton Multiple affordances of language corpora for data-driven learning.[9]


2014: Lancaster, UK

  • Hosted by Andrew Hardy
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2016: Giessen, Germany

  • Hosted by Sandra Götz
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2018: Cambridge, UK

  • Hosted by Pascual Pérez Paredes
  • Plenary speakers:
    • Alex Boulton, Université de Lorraine
    • Costas Gabrielatos, Edge Hill University
    • Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham
    • Anne O´Keeffe, Mary Immaculate College
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2020: Perpignan, France

  • Hosted by Henry Tyne


References

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  1. ^ Wilson, A. & T. McEnery (eds.) (1994). Corpora in language education and research. UCREL Technical Papers 4. Lancaster: University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language.
  2. ^ Wichmann, A., S. Fligelstone, T. McEnery & G. Knowles (eds.) (1997). Teaching and language corpora. Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman.
  3. ^ Burnard, L. & T. McEnery (eds.) (2000). Rethinking language pedagogy from a corpus perspective. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
  4. ^ Kettemann, B. & G. Marko (eds.) (2002). Teaching and learning by doing corpus analysis. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
  5. ^ Aston, G., S. Bernardini & D. Stewart (eds.) (2004). Corpora and language learners. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  6. ^ Hidalgo, E., L. Quereda & J. Santana (eds.) (2007). Corpora in the foreign language classroom. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
  7. ^ Kübler, N. (ed.) (2011). Corpora, language, teaching, and resources: From theory to practice. Bern: Peter Lang.
  8. ^ Frankenberg-Garcia, A., L. Flowerdew & G. Aston (eds.) (2011). New trends in corpora and language learning. London: Continuum.
  9. ^ Leńko-Szymańska, A. & A. Boulton (eds.) (2015). Multiple affordances of language corpora for data- driven learning. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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