One for the calendars 📅 #IVACS2026 will take place in Malta, July 1-3 2026! I'm honoured to be among the plenary speakers. More details on the conference and call for papers here: www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs...
Phil Durrant
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Professor of Applied Linguistics and Education, University of Exeter. https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/20179-phil-durrant
I am seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the ESRC-funded project 'Writing Tasks at School and University'. The post is full-time and will run from 1st November 2025 to 31st January 2029. See below for a brief overview of the project. jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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In case anyone needs some weekend reading, my contribution to a special issue of Applied Corpus Linguistics, dedicated to corpus research into children's writing, is now available open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
What can a corpus tell us about school writing? Findings, challenges, and future directions
Much child corpus research has focused on the language of school writing. In the first part of this paper, I discuss what this work can contribute to …
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Happy to share my review of 'Vocabulary, Corpus and Language Teaching', just out in ELT Journal. #artificialintelligence #ChatGPT #elt academic.oup.com/eltj/advance...
Vocabulary, corpus and language teaching. A machine-generated literature overview
The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 can be classified as a pivotal moment, one that compels us to pause and consider some fundamental questions related
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Call for papers: BAAL SIG Vocabulary Studies Annual Conference 2025 Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Vocabulary in Multilingual Contexts, 28-30 May 2025, University of Edinburgh, UK A title and a 300-word abstract should be submitted tinyurl.com/BAALVOCABSIG... by the 19th of February 2025.
Our recent webinar for those interested in applying for a Hornby scholarship is now available online...https://youtu.be/yEQq1iqaYq0?si=RMoQrEzqjOlBvL8j
Phil Durrant@phil-durrant.bsky.social · 2y agoHornby Scholarships for international ELT professionals from middle- and low-income countries to study MEd TESOL at Exeter University. For more information and guidance, you are welcome to attend a webinar 28 Jan 1200-1300 (UK time). Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
My recent inaugural lecture on corpus research into academic language is now available on YouTube... youtu.be/hlonWrFVgQo?...
Professor Philip Durrant's Inaugural Lecture
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Newcastle shrinks ‘unfunded’ research time under £30m cuts. University tells staff to reduce research activity without external funding, amid potential for 300 redundancies www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Newcastle shrinks ‘unfunded’ research time under £30m cuts - Research Professional News
University tells staff to reduce research activity without external funding, amid potential for 300 redundancies
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We are delighted to announce that the applications for the free Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics 2025 are now open! Join us this summer at @lancasteruni.bsky.social to learn more about corpora and their applications. 16-20 June 2025 More information: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...
Hornby Scholarships for international ELT professionals from middle- and low-income countries to study MEd TESOL at Exeter University. For more information and guidance, you are welcome to attend a webinar 28 Jan 1200-1300 (UK time). Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Graham Hall@ghinwhitleybay.bsky.social · 2y agoA.S. Hornby Trust: The Trust is pleased to be offering 10 Hornby Scholarships to study for the Master’s degree in TESOL at the University of Exeter, UK, for the 2025-26 academic year. (deadline 26th Feb) www.hornby-trust.org.uk/ma-tesol-sch...
Deadline extension: Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025: Final deadline 31 January 2024. Conference website: uclouvain.be/en/research-...
Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR)
This conference, to be held on 7 and 8 July 2025 in Louvain-la-Neuve, will mark the closing of the Hoover Seedfund project on "Learner Corpus Research and Register Variation", a collaborative initiati...
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A.S. Hornby Trust: The Trust is pleased to be offering 10 Hornby Scholarships to study for the Master’s degree in TESOL at the University of Exeter, UK, for the 2025-26 academic year. (deadline 26th Feb) www.hornby-trust.org.uk/ma-tesol-sch...
MEd TESOL Scholarships - Hornby Trust
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Both training course & symposium are *free* to attend! Help us spread the word! #digitalhumanities #corpuslinguistics #concordancetools @lanthony.bsky.social @schtepf.bsky.social @anteangaeile.bsky.social @proftaylor.bsky.social @violawiegand.bsky.social
DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg@dhssfau.bsky.social · 2y agoJoin us for the Reading Concordances Symposium and Training Day in Erlangen, 19-21 March 2025! We're offering a one-day course on concordance analysis and a two-day event with invited speakers and a poster session. See here for more: go.fau.de/1beba @rc21project.bsky.social
FreeTxt supports the analysis and visualisation of free-text data in both English and Welsh (e.g. data from surveys, questionnaires, feedback fora): freetxt.app
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One week left to submit abstracts / proposals for #CL2025!
Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025@cl2025.co.uk · 2y ago📢 Call for Papers: Corpus Linguistics 2025 📢 #CL2025 • Birmingham, UK • Monday 30th June - Thursday 3rd July 2025 Submissions are open for paper presentations, poster presentations, thematic panels, and pre-conference workshops: www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-pap... Submission deadline: 17th January
Call for Papers: Applied Corpus Linguistics special issue on corpus research into children's writing. For details, see phildurrant.net/special-issu... If you are interested in contributing, please send a 300-word abstract to me (p.l.durrant@exeter.ac.uk) by 31 January.
Are you an #appliedlinguist #SLA looking to make a career move as Associate or Full Prof? A rare opening at a prestigious #RussellGroup university in the charming West Country, a gorgeous part of the UK-much more affordable than London & Oxbridge. Deadline: Feb. 2 jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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Our new paper out now in Applied Linguistics… academic.oup.com/applij/advan...
Linking adverbials in children’s writing: Exploring variation across year groups, genres, and disciplines
Abstract. Linking adverbials is a crucial element in successful academic writing that is particularly challenging for both first and second-language learne
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Adjective + noun collocations in L2 spoken English. How robust is the role of proficiency? A great addition to the literature on collocation use and L2 proficiency. www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
Adjective + noun collocations in L2 spoken English | John Benjamins
Abstract This study explores the development of L2 phraseological knowledge, focusing on the relationship between L2 proficiency and the use of adjective-noun combinations from the perspective of coll...
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📣CALL FOR PAPERS📣 Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025: uclouvain.be/en/research-...
Call for papers
To mark the end of a Hoover Seedfund collaborative project between the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and the Department of English at Northern Arizona ...
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