Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to extend an invitation for the forthcoming International Conference for Learner Corpus Research (LCR) in 2024. Organized under the aegis of the Learner Corpus Association, this event brings together researchers, language instructors, and software developers who share an interest in using learner corpora for research. LCR 2024 in Tartu aspires to provide a favourable environment for dialogue and most recent research, allowing LCA members and other scholars in the field of LCR to share their latest ideas and findings.

Recognizing Estonia's unique position as the homeland of a lesser-known non-Indo-European language, we see it as suitable to prioritize corpus research that delves into the learning of smaller languages and by learners with less common L1 backgrounds. However, research focused on languages, even those extensively studied, is, as always, mostly welcomed.

Below, you will find the most essential details about the conference.

Keynote speakers:

Gaëtanelle Gilquin (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) Ilmari Ivaska (Turun Yliopisto, Finland) Cristóbal Lozano (Universidad de Granada, Spain)

Event Details:

Date: 26-28 September 2024 Location: Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures and the Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics. University of Tartu, Estonia. Categories: The conference will include keynote talks, paper presentations, work in progress reports, poster presentations and software demonstrations. Language: The language of the conference will be English. Topics: Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Language for academic purposes Language for specific purposes Language teaching, assessment and testing Learner corpus-based SLA studies Corpora as pedagogical resources Multimodal learner corpora Software for learner corpus analysis Corpus-based translation studies English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) Data mining and other explorative approaches to learner corpora Statistical methods in learner corpus studies Discourse analysis and pragmatics Studies related to lexis: semantics, metaphor, etc. NLP approaches Complexity, accuracy and/or fluency (CAF) analysis

Abstracts:

A short summary of the intended presentation, capturing the central idea along with the research questions, methods of research and the (possibly tentative) key conclusions, also citing any relevant previous work or theoretical background of the field On unpublished original research Complemented by 3-5 keywords Limited to 300 words, excluding keywords and references Anonymous: the abstract itself should hold no reference to the author or their affiliation

Further information is available at our webpage: https://lcr2024.ut.ee/main

Contact information: lcr2024@ut.ee

Looking forward to your valuable contributions.