Workshop on Profiling second language vocabulary and grammar

Språkbanken Texthttps://spraakbanken.gu.se/ and HumInfrahttps://www.huminfra.se/ are organizing a workshop on tools and resources aimed at research on profiling second language vocabulary and grammar, to take place on April 20-21, 2023 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Venue (hybrid mode): Gothenburg, Sweden -- University of Gothenburg, Humanistenhttps://www.gu.se/en/humanities;

Dates: 20-21 April, 2023

Deadline for registration (& abstract submissionhttps://forms.gle/jQ8UnBAp4dx5vEyC8): 10 March, 2023. (For online attendees without presentations, the registration is possible until April, 18.)

Participation is free. For registered onsite participants, lunches and coffee breaks will be offered free of charge.

Webpage: https://spraakbanken.gu.se/l2p-2023

We invite researchers and teachers working with or interested in profiling second language lexical, grammatical and other types of competencies to join our workshop. To participate, please, fill in this registration formhttps://forms.gle/jQ8UnBAp4dx5vEyC8 by March, 10, 2023. It is not obligatory, but possible to present your work during the workshop. In that case, please, add a short abstract (100-500 words), in the same registration form. We will come back to you with details shortly after March, 10.

Some of the topics of interest:

* descriptions of existing resources, work-in-progress or planned resources for profiling L2 competences * examples of practical use of such resources * lexical profiles * grammatical profiles * morphological profiles * word families * linguistic complexity studies based on L2 profiles * etc.

Some areas of interest:

* lexicography * teaching * (Second) Language Acquisition * language assessment * Intelligent Computer-Assisted language learning * Natural Language Processing * language learning app development * etc.

Invited speakers

* Aleksandrs Berdicevskishttps://sites.google.com/view/sasha-berdicevskis/, University of Gothenburg, Sweden: We need to know more about relative complexity and learnability * Jelena Kallashttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jelena-Kallas, Eesti Keele Instituut, Estonia: Aligning leaners' dictionaries with the CEFR: the case of Estonian Vocabulary and Grammar Profiles * Gabrielle Palottihttp://www.gabrielepallotti.it/engwho.html, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy: Profiling complexity: methodological issues and applications to L2 morphology * Geraldine Mark, Cardiff University, Wales: Building on insights from the English Grammar Profile: From really good to painfully obvious

Description

Efforts are made to create electronic resources that could help analyze learner language to feed into research and development projects within Teaching and Didactics, Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Assessment, Lexicography, Intelligent CALL applications, automatic analysis of learner language, automatic exercise generation, course book writing and various applied derivative products, such as learning apps. Such resources, called second language profiles, are research infrastructure components that often focus on second language (L2) learners, covering descriptions/listings of vocabulary, grammar and morphology learners acquire by level of proficiency. We witness the appearance of such resources, e.g. English Profilehttps://www.englishprofile.org/, Teacher's Toolshttps://sonaveeb.ee/teacher-tools/#/grammar for Estonian and Swedish L2 profilehttps://spraakbanken.gu.se/larkalabb/svlp, however, since such resources are quite few and, most importantly, new to users/researchers, we need a forum where we can discuss them, practically test them, explore their possibilities for research together and exchange experiences.

In this workshop, through presentations, discussions, demos and hands-on sessions, we intend:

(1) to establish some common practices, among others, how to use L2 profiles practically and how to apply them to different research questions

(2) to showcase scenarios for using them in research & teaching and outline benefits of their use

(3) to exchange experiences and lessons learnt between projects that have created such resources, reflecting on the ways to improve user-friendliness and identifying missing functionalities

(4) to inspire other languages to work on similar resources stimulating the creation of a new family of resources. Projects of that kind can hardly be “re-run” to fix errors that are discovered post-factum, and therefore planning such projects “right from the start” is a prerequisite. With the experiences from the L2 profile projects for Swedish, Estonian and English, we intend to offer our expertise (à la "advisory role") and help researchers in other countries set up their projects.

Organizers:

* Elena Volodina, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden * Therese Lindström Tiedemann, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland * David Alfter, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Contact:

* Elena Volodina < elena dot volodina at svenska dot gu dot se >

Feel free to distribute this call to your networks! Welcome!

___________________ Elena Volodina, PhD, Docent https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/about/staff/elena Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. Peace Pilgrim