- Have you begun research with corpora, but have been unsure what to do next?
- Have you heard about parsed corpora (treebanks) but wondered how you might use them in your research?
- Do you want a practical primer in statistics?
I’m pleased to announce the eleventh UCL Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics, our masterclass in research with parsed corpora, which is taking place online from 1-3 July. It is timed to run from 9:00 to 13:30 British Summer Time (GMT+1), to make it accessible for students across Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia.
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 £165 for early bookings made before 14 May, rising to £195 after.
This year we are innovating our programme, including a new session on World Englishes with Guyanne Wilson.
Aims and objectives of the course
Over the course of the three days, participants 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 should 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.
What it costs
- Attendance fee: £165 until May 14; £195 afterwards.
- Corpus and software:
- temporarily accessible for all participants (no separate purchase necessary)
- choice of free corpus to all students, £25 for both corpora
- Special Offer of 25% standard price for all attendees
This is a picture of our face-to-face teaching, which we would love to return to! But with Covid-19 a continuing threat worldwide, and for reasons of accessibility and cost, we decided to run the course online for another year.
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