Call for papers

Key dates

Call description

We welcome all contributions related to learner corpus research and strongly encourage authors to explore new directions, challenge existing paradigms, or apply innovative approaches to learner corpus data. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Language for Academic and Specific Purposes
• Language Teaching, Assessment, and Testing
• Learner Corpus-Based SLA Studies
• Corpora as Pedagogical Resources
• Multimodal Learner Corpora
• Software Tools for Learner Corpus Analysis
• Corpus-Based Translation Studies
• English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI)
• English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)
• Data Mining and Exploratory Methods
• Statistical and Quantitative Approaches
• Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics
• NLP Applications in Learner Corpus Research
• Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency (CAF) Measures

Presentation formats

We invite submissions for the following formats:

• Full paper (20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion)
• Work in progress (WIP) report (10 minutes + 5 minutes discussion)
• Corpus/Software demonstration
• Poster presentation
• Insight session (Insight sessions are intended primarily for PhD students and/or early-career researchers. The format allows for a 10-minute presentation followed by a 10-minute expert feedback follow-up. )

The WIP reports and posters are intended to present research still at a preliminary stage and on which researchers would like to get feedback.

The language of the conference is English.

Abstract submission

We invite submissions of abstracts in the range of 500 words (excluding references) for presentations in one of the categories listed above.

Please indicate the category of your submission (Full paper / WiP Report / Corpus / software demonstration / Poster presentation) at the beginning of your abstract.

Abstracts should include:

• A clearly articulated research question and an explanation of its relevance to learner corpus research
• A brief overview of the research approach, data, and methods used
• A summary of the main results and their interpretation

Submissions must be made via OpenReview (registration necessary, link TBA).

The working language of the conference is English. Please do not include author names or institutional affiliations in the submitted abstract.

For co-authored submissions, one author should register and upload the abstract, but each co-author must register individually for the conference.

Competitions

We are pleased to announce two competitions that will take place as part of the conference:

Best PhD student paper award

This award will be given for the best single-authored full paper presented by a PhD student. To be eligible, the presenter must be a member of the Learner Corpus Association (LCA). Information on how to become an LCA member is available here.

If you would like to participate, please indicate your interest when submitting your abstract via OpenReview (link TBA).

Best poster award

All poster presenters are invited to take part in the Best Poster Competition. If you are interested in entering, please indicate this during the abstract submission process in OpenReview.