Organizations, Conferences, Forums and Training

AAAL (The American Association for Applied Linguistics) is a professional organization of scholars who are interested in and actively contribute to the multi-disciplinary field of applied linguistics.

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ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) is a national organization dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction.

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ELRA(European Language Resources Association) was established as a non-profit organization in Luxembourg in February 1995 making available language resources for language engineering and to evaluate language engineering technologies. Included in its "Catalogue of Language Resources" are a variety of spoken, written, and multimodal corpus sources.

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EUROCALL The European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning) is an association of language teaching professionals from Europe and world-wide. Provides information and advice on all aspects of the use of technology for language learning, for those involved in education and training.

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ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) is an international organization of linguists and information scientists working with English machine-readable texts. There are details of its corpora, conferences and journals.

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IVACS (Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies Research Centre) brings together researchers whose goal it is to add to the description of language variation in context and to explore how the outcomes of this empirical research might apply to pedagogy.

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PALC(Practical Applications In Language Corpora) annual conferences. Go to 2009 conference site.

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TALC (Teaching and Language Corpora) annual conferences. Go to 2008 conference site.

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Web de la XED Xarxa d'Estudis del Discurs . Common website of a network of discourse research groups in Spain, France and Argentina. (in Catalan)

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Forums, newsletters and distribution lists

CALL-ED discussion list is a non-moderated e-mail discussion list created for teacher trainers and educators around the world to exchange information, share ideas, and discuss issues relative to Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL).

CORPORA list is open for information and questions about text corpora such as availability, aspects of compiling and using corpora, software, tagging, parsing, bibliography, etc. This page contains information about subscription etc., but was last updated in 2002.

EUROCALL online Newsletter is published quarterly and includes information about upcoming RECALL journals, reports from SIGs and book/article reviews.

Linguist List archives is a database of linguistics mailing list archives, which allows you to search for anything that interests you or just browse and gives you a chance to find a list that you want to join.

Courses and Further Study:

Workshops:
Summer workshops for foreign language educators at CALPER. See our professional development page for current information.

Online Tutorial:
Concordances and Corpora (both theory and paractice)
authored by Catherine N. Ball, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University

Introductory courses:
Corpus Linguistics
Tony McEnery and Andrew Wilson's course is based on their book, Corpus Linguistics (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996)

Developing Linguistic Corpora: a Guide to Good Practice
Edited by Martin Wynne.

Corpus Linguistics
W3C Corpus Linguistics site.

Intensive course:
Tuscan Word Centre (TWC) in Italy is a non-profit association devoted to promoting the scientific study of language. It conducts short intensive courses for language researchers and workers in the language industries, covering issues such as how to put a corpus together, how best to analyze it etc. Online applications are accepted.