I am pleased to announce the tenth annual UCL Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics, to be held online from 19-21 June.
The Summer School is a short three-day intensive course aimed at PhD-level students and researchers who wish to get to grips with Corpus Linguistics from the perspective of the ‘Survey Methodology’. It is offered at £125 for early bookings made before 14 May, rising to £150 after.
Each day begins with a theory lecture, followed by a guided hands-on workshop with corpora. It is timed to run from 9:00 to 13:00 British Summer Time (GMT+1), to make it accessible for students across Europe, Africa and Asia.
This is a picture of our face-to-face teaching on the course, which we would love to return to! But with Covid-19 a continuing threat worldwide, and for reasons of accessibility and cost, we have decided to run the course online for another year.
This year we are joined by Beth Malory, who will be running new sessions on discourse analysis and sociolinguistics research. More information and the provisional timetable are available on the Survey website.
Aims and objectives of the course
Over the three days, participants will learn about the following:
- the scope of Corpus Linguistics, and how we can use it to study the English Language;
- key issues in Corpus Linguistics methodology;
- how to use corpora to analyse issues in syntax and semantics;
- basic elements of statistics;
- how to navigate large and small corpora, particularly ICE-GB and DCPSE.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, participants will have:
- acquired a basic but solid knowledge of the terminology, concepts and methodologies used in English Corpus Linguistics;
- had practical experience working with two state-of-the-art corpora and a corpus exploration tool (ICECUP);
- have gained an understanding of the breadth of Corpus Linguistics and the potential application for projects;
- have learned about the fundamental concepts of inferential statistics and their practical application to Corpus Linguistics.
For more information, including costs, booking information, timetable, see the website.
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