Category: corpus linguistics

500 Words 2019: the biggest short-story writing competition for kids & Sketch Engine

500 Words 2019

The world’s biggest short-story writing competition for kids has returned.

Dates for your diary

All entries must be received by Friday 8th March at 7pm.

This year’s 500 Words Final will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 from Windsor Castle, on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, on Friday 14th June.

A corpus of stories written by children

500 Words is an open invitation to the wide world of imagination, so it’s time to get those creative cogs turning!

BBC, Oxford University Press, 500 Words and Sketch Engine – what’s the connection? BBC and Oxford University Press organize the world’s biggest short-story writing competition for kids.

After the winners are announced, the stories are processed by Sketch Engine into the Oxford Children’s Corpus, a 340-million-word database used by linguists and lexicographers to learn how children use English. 

Read previous research “Oxford Children’s Corpus: a Corpus of Children’s Writing, Reading, and Education (PDF)

Source: BBC website

El pensamiento computacional, segunda edición

En este trabajo se aborda el pensamiento computacional desde la perspectiva de la enseñanza y del aprendizaje en todos los niveles educativos, pero básicamente en los niveles anteriores a la universidad. En él se plantea que el pensamiento computacional constituye una competencia clave en la nueva alfabetización digital. De manera que las habilidades que son propias de los programadores deben ser desarrolladas desde las primeras etapas y son igualmente útiles para la resolución de problemas en otros ámbitos de la vida profesional y personal. Son habilidades que permiten a los individuos desarrollar las funciones de comunicación, representación y proceso de la información propios de la nueva cultura, la de la Sociedad del Conocimiento. Los contenidos tratan de lenguajes de patrones específicos del pensamiento computacional, de las componentes que, según el análisis que se hace, lo constituyen y lo definen, de experiencias concretas de implementación en currículos oficiales. Y por último del pensamiento computacional en las primeras etapas de desarrollo de los niños, sin ordenadores y sin pantallas: El pensamiento computacional desenchufado.Este libro es útil para profesores, técnicos en diseño y organización educativa e investigadores en computación, educación y teoría del aprendizaje entre otros.

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#CFP Corpus Linguistics Conference 2019 deadline approaching

14th January 2019 – deadline for abstract submission

14th February 2019 – earlybird registration opens
14th February 2019 – all abstract review outcomes will be returned by this date

21st April 2019 – end of earlybird registration (rates rise)
23rd June 2019 – end of main registration (late registration not guaranteed, though we’ll try)
23rd June 2019 – final deadline for cancellation with refund of registration fees 22nd July 2019 – pre-conference workshop day
23rd to 26th July 2019 – main conference

Website: http://www.cl2019.org

Deadline approaching ICAME40 Université de Neuchâtel June 1–5, 2019

ICAME40 at the Université de Neuchâtel June 1–5, 2019

Switzerland

December 15 deadline

Language in Time, Time in Language

In addition to contributions to the main conference, we are also inviting submissions for four exciting pre-conference workshops, to be held on June 1 (see website for descriptions):

* Big data and the study of language and culture: Parliamentary discourse across time and space (Convenors: Jukka Tyrkkö, Minna Korhonen & Haidee Kruger)

* Languages in time, time in languages: Phraseological perspectives (Convenors: Anna Čermáková, Hilde Hasselgård, Thomas Egan & Sylvi Rørvik)

* Register approaches to language variation and change in English(es) (Convenors: Elena Seoane & Douglas Biber)

* Corpus approaches to social media (Convenors: Sofia Rüdiger & Daria Dayter)

For more information on the call for papers, workshops, submission, keynote speakers, and updated conference practicals, please visit www.icame40.ch.

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