Learner Corpora News

On February 29th, Elnaz Kia, in her role as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at L2TReC, delivered a well-received preconference workshop at the 2024 Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT) in Honolulu, HI. She was joined by L2TReC's esteemed former director, Fernando Rubio, and Valerie Sky, an assistant professor of applied linguistics at Cal Poly Pomona. Their collaborative effort was noted for its engagement and attendance, contributing positively to the conference.

L2TReC Research Assistant, Amanda Hoffmann, presents at the 2024 Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT) in Honolulu, Hawaii.

L2TReC Research Assistant, Miguel Hernández Alonso, presents at the 2024 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference in Houston, TX.

L2TReC's Postdoctoral Research Associate, Elnaz Kia and Research Assistant Lynn Ricks presented at the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Conference (AATSEEL). The AATSEEL Conference took place on February 15-18 and is centered around the various communicative aspects of the Russian language and Slavic culture.

This workshop aims to prepare current and future Dual Language Immersion (DLI) teachers to create authentic teaching materials for DLI classrooms using learner corpora (i.e., large collections of texts containing language data produced by L2 learners

This webinar aims to introduce language teachers to learner corpora (i.e., large collections of texts containing language data produced by L2 learners) as a source to create authentic pedagogical materials.

The purpose of the L2TReC Student Research Grants Program is to (1) enhance the research education of University of Utah students and (2) promote the research mission of L2TReC via support for student research projects. Application deadlines are October 15 and March 15 of each year; awarded funds must be used within one calendar year.

This workshop aims to prepare current and future Dual Language Immersion (DLI) teachers to create authentic teaching materials for DLI classrooms using learner corpora. The 6-hour in-person workshop will include lectures and practice sessions on the following topics: analyzing sample corpus-informed teaching materials in various languages; using corpus linguistic tools and techniques; developing corpus-informed activities based on corpus search results.

L2TReC is excited to announce that the Multilingual Corpus of Second Language Speech (MuSSeL) has been launched: https://l2trec.utah.edu/learner-corpora/mussel/

The purpose of this webinar is to help language teachers use learner corpora (i.e., large collections of texts containing language data produced by L2 learners) to create authentic materials.

This webinar is an introduction to corpus linguistics as a tool for language teaching. Corpus linguistics uses computer-based tools to analyze large collections of authentic spoken and written texts in an efficient way.