Conferences, talks & activity

Invited talks and activity 2025

Member of the scientific committee of the Association Française de Linguistique Appliquée – AFLA 2025 conference “The Natural and the Artificial in Applied Linguistics”, Nancy (France), 25 to 27 June 2025.

Invited talks and activity 2024

Member of the Advisory Board Applied Linguistics Press (ALP).

Keynote at 2nd EUt+ International Conference on Languages  EUt LC 2024 -Merging New Trends and Consolidating Good Practices in Languages for Specific Purposes – UPCT – June 19-21, 2024

International Doctoral Summer School in Applied Linguistics & TESOL (2024). University of Malta. 1-5 July 2024.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the 16th Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC) Conference, July 7th to 10th 2024, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Member of the Scientific Committee for 7th International Conference on Learner Corpus Research (LCR 2024). 26th – 28th of September 2024, University of Tartu. 

Member of the Advisory Committee 11th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS 2024). Cambridge, 16 & 17th July 2024.

Member of the Scientific Committee for the VII International Conference on 
English and ESP Lexicology and Lexicography. Universidad de Alicante , 9 -10 May 2024

Invited talks and activity 2023

Scientific Committee 2023 Corpus Linguistics Conference, Lancaster University. 3 – 6 July 2023

International Doctoral Summer School in Applied Linguistics & TESOL (2023). University of Malta. 3-7 July 2023.

Scientific committee. PACOR PArallel CORpora Conference. Universidad de León. November 2023. 

Scientific committee. 4th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge LDK 2023, Vienna, Austria Sep 13 2023 http://2023.ldk-conf.org/

Scientific committee. Graduate Student Conference in Learner Corpus Research 2023. Eurac Research (Bolzano, Italy) and the University for Foreigners of Perugia (Italy) 

Scientific committee. Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2023). Edge Hill University. 7-8 July 2023.

Member of Scientific Committee. 16th International American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference (AACL 2024) September 13-15th, 2024, University of Oregon.

Invited talks and activity 2022

Corpus Linguisguistics Workshop. Antconc: A corpus analysis toolkit for concordancing and text analysis. Instituto Interuniversitario de Lenguas Modernas Aplicadas de la Comunitat Valenciana- U. Jaume 1, 16 December 2022

Corpus Linguistics Strand Coordinator. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2022.

Scientific committee. Learner Corpus Research Conference (LCR 2022). University of Padua, Italy, 22 to 24 September 2022.

Organising committee. Teaching and Language Corpora Conference. University of Limerick, Ireland, July 2022.

Doing science in times of uncertainty: scientific blogging during the early days of the pandemic in Spain and the UKCritical. Discourse Studies and Social Change: Where are we at? Feb 16-17, Universidad de Granada

Interpreting the review process in applied linguistics research. With Alex Boulton and Cornerlia Tschichold. Feedback in Scholarly Peer Review Online Symposium (24 and 25 January 2022) .

Invited speaker. International Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics for Education 2022 Seminar Series. The University of Queensland, Australia.

Scientific committee. Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2022). Edge Hill University.

Member of Scientific Committee. 15th International American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference (AACL 2022). Northern Arizona University, September 9-11, 2022.

Invited talks and activity 2021

Invited expert. CorpusCast, Department of English, Languages and Applied Linguistics. Aston University, UK.

Invited speaker. Corpus linguistics approaches to discourse analysis. NETLANG: “The Language of Cyberbullying: Forms and Mechanisms of Online Prejudice and Discrimination in Annotated Comparable Corpora of Portuguese and English”. University of Minho, Portugal (PTDC/LLT-LIN/29304/2017). 10-14 November, 2021.

Invited speaker. EUROCALL 2021 Conference. Sorbone Université, 25-27 August. CorpusCALL Symposium: Professional cooperation for DDL and corpus-informed teaching. Collaboration between corpus linguists, language teachers, learners and computer engineers.

Programme committee member. Graduate Student Conference in Learner Corpus Research 2021.

Approaches to language, migration & identity 2021. University of Sussex, 9-11 June 2021. Where´s home? EU citizens as migrants. Pascual Pérez-Paredes & Elena Remigi,

University of Exeter Language & Education Network Research Seminar. Extending corpus linguistics methods to education research. February 2021.

Corpus Linguistics Strand American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2021. 20-23 March. Programme committee member.

Research Methods Strand American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2021. 20-23 March. Programme committee member.

Corpus Linguistics Conference 2021. Task type and complexity: a case study investigating Part-of-Speech sequence variability within B1 level exam data. Geraldine Mark, Anne O’Keeffe, Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Andrew Caines and Paula Buttery. Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies Conference 2020: Corpus Linguistics: Methods, Approaches, Applications . Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland. 24-27 June 2020.         

Corpus Linguistics Conference 2021. Constructing international students in UK universities after the Brexit referendum. Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Geraldine Mark and Anne O´Keeffe. Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies Conference 2020: Corpus Linguistics: Methods, Approaches, Applications . Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland. 24-27 June 2020.    

Corpus Linguistics Conference 2021. The Teacher-Student Chat Corpus: one-to-one dialogue between language teachers and students in an online chatroom. Andrew Caines, Helena Edmondson, Helen Allen, Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Helen Yannakoudakis, Bill Byrne and Paula Buttery. Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies Conference 2020: Corpus Linguistics: Methods, Approaches, Applications . Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland. 24-27 June 2020.   

Scientific committee. Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2021). Edge Hill University.

Invited talks and activity 2020

IDAES Graduate Day 2020. Inter-University Doctoral Programme in Advanced English Studies: Linguistics, Literature and Culture- Universities of A Coruña (UDC), Santiago de Compostela (USC) and Vigo (UVigo). Keynote: What is research anyway?  Some reflections on methodology and research questions at the crossroads of corpus linguistics research and L2 learning.

3rd International Doctoral Summer School in TESOL & Applied Linguistics. University of Malta Valletta Campus Centre for English Language Proficiency. MALTA: 15 – 18 June 2020.

Symposium on Incorporating Corpora in Teaching, 21-23 October 2020 in Sundsvall, Sweden. Inst. för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap / Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. Mittuniversitetet / Mid-Sweden University

Keynote. Mobile assisted language learning: scope, praxis and theory. XXI Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura. SEDLL. Universidad de Navarra, 25 -27 de Noviembre 2020.

Mesa redonda: Publicar investigaciones en revistas relevantes del área. XXI Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura. SEDLL. Universidad de Navarra, 25 -27 de Noviembre 2020. Con Idoia Elola, Pilar García Mayo , Pascual Pérez Paredes, Daniel Madrid Fernández & Noelia Ibarra Ríus.

Corpus Linguistics Strand American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2020. Denver, CO, 28-31 March. Programme committee member.

Research Methods Strand American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2020. Denver, CO, 28-31 March. Programme committee member.

Language & Technology Strand American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2020. Denver, CO, 28-31 March.Programme committee member.

Examining stance adverbs in learner language: a longitudinal perspective. MA in Applied Linguistics: Issues in Applied Linguistics Webinar Series. MIC, University of Limmerick.

Invited talks and activity 2019

KTU-Kaunas, Lithuania. March 2019.

English Language Corpora Workshop with Cambridge University Press (www) Cambridge Language Sciences.  14.00 on 28 February 2019. The Library (top floor), Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies

Invited Speaker. 4th Learner Corpus Studies in Asia and the World (LCSAW4) 29, September 2019, Kobe University Centennial Hall in Japan, ESRC-AHRC (PI Prof. Tony McEnery)

Doctoral Summer School. Centre for English Language Proficiency. University of Malta 11-14 June 2019.

Keynote. University of Malta. June 15th. Intersection between research and practice in TESOL and Applied Linguistics.

Invited speaker. Uses of “actually” in spoken learner corpora. Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2019) 22 June 2019. Edge Hill University.

Languaging diversity 6: Discourse and persuasion 3.0: identities in a hybrid and multimodal world. Keynote. Universidad de Zaragoza, 25 – 27 Septiembre 2019. (www)

Member of the Program Committee Learner Corpus Research Conference (LRC), Warsaw on 12-14 September 2019

Member of the Program Committee 2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019),  20-23 May, Leipzig. (URL)

Research Methods Strand American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2019. Atlanta, GA, 8-12 March.

Language & Technology Strand American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2019. Atlanta, GA, 8-12 March.

Core Verb Argument Constructions in L2 use: a front and rear view of development using a learner corpus. AAAL 2019: March 9-12, 2019, Atlanta, Georgia. With Anne O´Keeffe and Gel Mark. (URL)

Invited talks 2018

I Jornadas Vocational Guidance In Clil (VGCLIL). Universidad de Murcia. 23 January 2018. CLIL en contextos profesionales.

Universidad de Vigo. 4 May 2018. An overview of the research at the crossroads of corpus linguistics and language education. Inter university Doctoral Programme in advanced English Studies: Linguistics, Literature & Culture.

Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 7-8 May, 2018. III Edición del seminario “Retos y oportunidades del aula internacional“. “Rethinking the international institution: from multilingualism as a burden to the new normal”.

Keynote speaker. Education and learning research in the age of complexity and fragmentation. Oxford-Cambridge PhD students’ exchange seminar. Department of Education, University of Oxford. June 1, 2018.

Keynote speaker. Pensamiento computacional y aprendizaje de lenguas. Congreso Internacional De Tendencias En Innovación Educativa CITIE II. Universidad Nacional San Agustín De Arequipa, Perú.

Universidad Complutense de Madrid. May, 2018. Exploring research in Corpus Linguistics and Language Learning.

4th Santiago de Compostela International Workshop on Discourse Analysis (IWoDA’18). Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. 26-27 September 2018: Learner language research beyond contrastive interlanguage analysis: rethinking epistemology. See poster here.

Scientific Committee of the 2018 American Association of Corpus Linguistics Conference, University of Georgia St, Atlanta.

Conferences 2018

AAAL 2018 The English Grammar Profile: Investigating Patterns of Learner Grammar Development. Sat, March 24, 8:35 to 9:05am, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Mississippi Room. With Anne O´Keeffe and Geraldine Mark.

Invited talks and activity 2017

Scientific Committee. LCR 2017, the 4th international conference on learner corpus research, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, 5-7 October 2017.

Scientific Committee. Metadiscourse across Genres: Mapping out interactions in spoken and written discourses. Cyprus, 30 March – 1 April 2017. URL.

Invited talks and activity 2016

Noun Phrases in Spanish young learners of EFL: insights from the International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage (ICCI) 

Multilingualism seminar Lent Term.Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. University of Cambridge.

Thursday 28 January at 1-2.30, Room GR05 (English Faculty).
Native speaker and learner language data in Applied Linguistics: what’s next?

Monday 08 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS4.
University of Cambridge.

34 Congreso Internacional AESLA (AESLA 2016) Carlos OrdoñanaPilar AguadoPurificación Sánchez and Pascual Pérez-ParedesLanguage teachers’ uptake of Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) and language processing technologie URL

Conferences 2015

14th International AELFE Conference

Developments in professional/academic communication and implications for language education and research
Bucharest, Romania, 25 – 27 June 2015
co-organised by AELFE – the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes, QUEST Romania and the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE)

Featuring immigrants and citizens: A comparison between Spanish and English primary legislation and administration information texts (2007-2011)

P. Sánchez, P. Pérez-Paredes and P. Aguado.
Departamento de Filología Inglesa
Facultad de Letras
Universidad de Murcia (Spain)

VII Congreso Internacional de Lingüística del Corpus, Universidad de Valladolid – CILC 2015 ( 5-7 March)

Migrants in administrative language in the UK

Pascual Pérez-Paredes
Pilar Aguado Jiménez
Purificación Sánchez Hernández

AESLA 2015 – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (16-18 April)

Representación del inmigrante en el lenguaje de la administración en español: Estudio de corpus.

Pilar Aguado Jiménez
Purificación Sánchez Hernández
Pascual Pérez-Paredes

Corpus Linguistics 2015, Lancaster University, UK – 21st to 24th July 2015

Citizens and migrants: the representation of immigrants in the UK primary legislation and administration information texts (2007-2011)

Pascual Pérez-Paredes

Round tables 2015

AESLA 2015 – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (16-18 April)

Higher Education as a multilingual and multicultural space /La educación superior como espacio multilingüe y multicultural.

Co-chairs: Emma Dafouz &  Pascual Pérez-Paredes

U. Murcia, International Centum Week

Erasmus+. Good practices in KA1 and KA2

U. Murcia, Jornada para el impulso y consolidación de proyectos de Docencia Bilingüe CMN

Moderador: Experiencias en programas bilingüe CMN (UMU y UPCT) y otras universidades.

Invited talks 2015

Native & learner language in interviews, Universidad Jaume I, Castellón, 6 May, 2015.

Developing corpus-based resources for language learning: looking back in “hope”, Meliksah University, Turkey, 20 May, 2015.

V  Valencian Workshop on Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Telecollaboration and Social media, 13-14 November, 2015. Provisional site. Keynote: Normalising corpus use in the language classroom.