Workshops
SLRF 2009 offers three workshops:
Learner Corpora (by Tom Cobb) - Saturday, October 31st, 8:15am - 10:15am
Grant Acquisition (by Linda White) - Sunday, November 1st, 11:00am - 12:30pm
How to get published in SLA (by Laura Collins, Canadian Modern Language Review; Charlene Polio, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics; Robert DeKeyser, Language Learning; Claire Renaud, Studies in Second Language Acquisition) - Friday October 30th, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Conducting Research with Learner Corpora
Thomas Cobb (University of Quebec at Montreal)
Dr. Cobb is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at UQAM and an adjunct Professor of Education at McGill University. His research investigates topics such as lexical acquisition, literacy development, CALL, internet programming, and technology transfer and integration. He is the developer of a lexical acquisition and corpus learning website for students, teachers, and researchers.
Dr. Cobb will provide a "crash course" in carrying out research using learner corpora and small teacher or researcher built corpora generally. He will lead a walk-through of a study he has conducted using corpus data and address the work that had to be done and issues to be resolved at each stage of the study, offering a behind-the-scenes look at how corpus research is carried out. In addition he will display some new and accessible online tools for corpus work, hoping to encourage instructors or researchers from other areas to get some hand-on experience in the learner corpus paradigm.
Preparing a successful grant application is a well planned, coordinated and executed initiative, no parts of which can be left to chance (or luck). This workshop will involve both didactic and interactive elements with attention to shared learning and designed for students and faculty. Several guest speakers will join the discussion to lend their expertise about areas of grant acquisition that have historically been challenging. The focus will be on:
- Pre-proposal preparation (considering the "building blocks" needed for a competitive submission).
- Finding funding (matching what you want to do with who can help you finance it)
- Writing a competitive proposal (including consideration to long-term sustainability)
- The grant submission process (regarding both internal - departmental, institutional requirements, etc. - and external application processes)
How to get published in SLA
Laura Collins, Canadian Modern Language Review
Charlene Polio, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
Robert DeKeyser, Language Learning
Claire Renaud, Studies in Second Language Acquisition
Editors of several journals will organize a forum to explain the publishing process to prospective authors in SLS journals. The editors will describe their policies, including submission and editorial guidelines, acceptance rates, reviewer criteria and the publication process. The floor will then be opened for questions and additional discussion.