last update: 20/11/11

Konferenzen & Vorträge/Conferences & Presentations

2012

▪    March 8th-11th: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT 2012), Washington, DC; paper on "Measuring Speakers’ Knowledge of English Verb-Argument Constructions: Psycholinguistic Evidence from L1 and L2 Settings" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell and Nick Ellis)

▪    ?May 30th-June 3rd: ICAME 33 in Leuven, Belgium

▪     June 7th-8th: Keynote speaker at the Forum Academic Writing in Basel, Switzerland

▪    ?July 11th-14th: TaLC 10 in Warsaw, Poland

2011

▪    March 14th-21th: Japan trip: Invited lecture and workshop at the University of Miyazaki Medical School, Miyazaki; visit to Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) -- CANCELED bc of earthquake

▪     March 26th-29th: AAAL 2011 in Chicago, IL; paper on "How to uncover the phraseological profile of a text type"

▪    April 15th-17th: Alabama symposium on "Exploring the Boundaries and Applications of Corpus Linguistics", University of Alabama, AL; papers on "How to paragraph in academic writing: Insights from corpus analysis and EAP experts" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell) and "What do people know about verbs in constructions? Combining Corpus and Psycholinguistic Evidence" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell and Nick Ellis)

▪    May 4th-6th: AESLA conference in Salamanca, Spain; invited participant in AESLA Roundtable on "Corpus linguistics for 21st century language learning"; presentation on "Corpus linguistics and language teaching: Some recent developments and challenges for the 21st century"

▪    June 17th-21st: ISLE 2 conference in Boston, MA; papers on "Learning verb-argument constructions: New perspectives from corpus and psycholinguistic analyses" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell and Nick Ellis) and "The Phraseological Profile Model applied: New insights into academic speech and writing"

▪    July 20th-22nd: Corpus Linguistcs 2011 Conference in Birmingham, UK; paper on "Exploring Zipfian Distributions in English Verb Argument Constructions: Corpus and Psycholinguistic Evidence" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell and Nick Ellis) and pecha kucha presentation on "Looking at paragraphs in academic writing: Corpus and pedagogical perspectives" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell)

▪    October 7th-9th: AACL 2011 in Atlanta, GA; papers on "VACnet: Retrieving and analyzing verb-argument constructions at scale" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell and Nick Ellis) and "The Phraseological Profile Model applied: New insights into academic discourse"

▪    November 10th-12th: Plenary speaker at the 10th Brazilian Corpus Linguistics Meeting (X ELC 2011), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; presentation on "Corpora, phraseology and academic discourse"

2010

▪     March 6th-9th: AAAL 2010 in Atlanta, GA; paper on "Analyzing the disciplinary and textual distribution of phraseological items in a new corpus of proficient student writing" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell); poster on "The Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers (MICUSP): Collection, annotation, classification, and online distribution" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell)

▪    May 26th-30th: ICAME 31 in Giessen, Germany; paper on "Positional variation of n-grams and phrase-frames in a new corpus of proficient student writing" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell); poster on "How to uncover the phraseological profile of a text type"

▪   June 30th-July 3rd: TaLC 9 in Brno, Czech Republic; keynote lecture on "TaLC and academic writing: Exploring the pedagogical potential of MICUSP"

▪   November 17th: LTC Colloquium, University of North Texas; invited speaker; presentation on "Corpora and teaching academic writing"

▪   December 7th: Invited lecture on MICUSP and teaching academic writing at the Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication, IUPUI, Indiana

2009

▪     March 21st-24th: AAAL 2009 in Denver, CO; organization of a colloquium (with Stefanie Wulff) on "SLA and the inseparability of vocabulary and syntax"; paper on "Measuring the formulaicity of language" (with Nick Ellis, Matthew B. O'Donnell, Stefan Gries and Stefanie Wulff)

▪   May 22nd: Aston Corpus Symposium, Aston University, Birmingham, UK; invited speaker; presentation on "The use of phraseological items in apprentice academic writing: Does nativeness matter?"

▪    May 27th-31st: ICAME 30 in Lancaster, UK; organization of a pre-conference workshop (with Nick Ellis and Fanny Meunier) on "Corpora and SLA"; paper (with Annelie Ädel) on "Research on proficient student writing across disciplines and levels: Introducing MICUSP"; poster (with Matthew B. O'Donnell) on "From student hard drive to web corpus: The design, compilation, annotation and online distribution of the MICUSP corpus"; photos

▪  June 11th-13th: Fifth Conference on Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; paper on "What do linguists want? How corpus analysis can provide insights into the value system of a discourse community"; photos

▪    July 20th-23rd: Corpus Linguistics 2009 Conference in Liverpool, UK; papers  on "Establishing the phraseological profile of a text or text type" and (with Matthew B. O'Donnell) on "Exploring the variation and distribution of academic phrase-frames in MICUSP"

▪  October 8th-11th: AACL 2009, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; papers on "Phraseological items in apprentice academic writing: Does nativeness matter?" and "Positional variation of phrase-frames in a new corpus of proficient student writing" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell)

▪   October 29th - November 1st: SLRF 2009 (Second Language Research Forum), Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA; paper on "Examining formulaic sequences in corpora of second language writing" (with Matthew B. O'Donnell and Nick Ellis); photos

2008

▪    March 12th-15th: AACL 2008 at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT; presentations on "A neo-Firthian approach to academic writing: Uncovering local patterns and local meanings in the discourse of linguistics" and "Becoming a proficient academic writer: Shifting lexical dependencies in the use of the progressive" (with Stefanie Wulff); photos

▪    March 29th - April 1st: AAAL 2008 in Washington, DC; participation in a colloquium on "Second Language Construction Learning: Frequency, Form, and Function" (paper with Stefanie Wulff, Nick Ellis and Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig entitled "A constructional analysis of tense-aspect in spoken English"); photos

▪    July 3rd-6th: TaLC 8 in Lisbon, Portugal; pre-conference workshop (with Michael Barlow) on "Exploring and teaching the phraseology of academic discourse"; presentation (with Stefanie Wulff) on "The new MICASE online interface and its potential for EAP teaching"; photos

▪   August 24th-29th: AILA 2008 World Congress in Essen, Germany; paper entitled "The inseparability of lexis and grammar: Corpus linguistic perspectives" as part of a symposium on "Constructing a Second Language" (convenors: Nick Ellis and Teresa Cadierno); photos

▪    October 5th-8th: Anglistentag 2008 in Tübingen, Germany; convenor (with Rainer Schulze) of the linguistics panel on "Patterns in Language"; photos

▪     October 8th-11th: ISLE 1 in Freiburg, Germany; photos

▪   October 22-29: Japan lecture trip: Invited speaker and panelist at Kumamoto University International Symposium on "Corpora and English education: Exploring the interface between corpus research and English education", website, poster; visit to Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS); photos

▪  November 7th-9th: "Language as a complex adaptive system" conference, celebrating the 60th anniversary of Language Learning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; photos

2007

▪  January 25th: Workshop on corpus analysis and literary studies, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, University of Giessen

▪  February 19th: Invited talk at the University of Michigan English Language Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; some photos from the A2 trip

▪   May 4th: Aston Corpus Symposium, Aston University, Birmingham, UK; photos

▪   May 23th-27th: ICAME 28 conference in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK; presentation on "Corpora and academic discourse analysis: Providing insights into the lexicalgrammar of linguistic book reviews"; photos

▪    May 29th - June 4th: Visiting scholar at the University of Michigan English Language Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

▪   July 27th-30th: Corpus Linguistics 2007 Conference in Birmingham, UK; workshop on "Extracting collocations from specialised corpora" (with Michael Barlow); presentation on "Think local! On the need for text-type specific lexical grammars"; photos

▪   October 25th-27th: Invited speaker at a symposium on "Chunks in Corpus Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics. In Honour of John Sinclair", University of Erlangen, Germany; programme; photos

▪    November 6th-8th: Keynote speaker at the 1st International Conference on Corpus-based Approaches to ELT, University of Jaume I, Castellon, Spain; photos; more photos 

▪   December 7th: Presentation on "The new MICASE online interface" (with Stefanie Wulff), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

2006

▪   January 27th: Invited speaker at a symposium celebrating Bernhard Kettemann's 60th birthday; presentation on "The word is not enough! Searching for units of meaning in linguistic discourse"; photos

▪   May 9th: Lecture at the University of Hanover's 175th anniversary celebrations: "Getting your hands on real English - Entdecken von typischen Sprachmustern in der britischen Alltagskonversation", Hanover, Germany

▪     May 24th-28th: 27. ICAME 27 conference at the Hanasaari Cultural Centre, Helsinki, Finland; paper on "What linguists want: Exploring the language of a discourse community"; photos

▪   June 22nd: Guest lecture at the University of Gießen, Germany; graduate seminar on "The English Verb" (Professor Joybrato Mukherjee)

▪     July 1st-4th: TaLC 7 (Teaching and Language Corpora) Conference in Paris, France; photos 

▪   September 17th-20th: Anglistentag 2006 (Annual meeting of the German Association of University Teachers of English) in Halle/Saale, Germany; presentation on "Learner language and the norms in native corpora and EFL teaching materials - A case study of English conditionals" (panel on "Standards and norms in language description and language teaching"); abstract; photos

▪    October 5th-7th: Conference co-chair (with Rainer Schulze) of ELeGI 2006, an international conference on the topic "Exploring the Lexis-Grammar Interface", University of Hanover, Germany; photos

▪   October 16th: Invited speaker at the 3rd Teachers' Day on "Spoken Grammar", University of Saarbrücken, Germany

▪   October 27th-31st: Topic leader on a short intensive course on "Special and Varied Corpora", Tuscan Word Centre, Italy; course description; photos; more photos; even more photos; still more photos; yet more photos

2005

▪   February 2nd: Invited lecture as part of the LinguA lecture series, University of Hanover, Germany; presentation on "Make it real - Korpusanalyse und ihre Anwendung in Linguistik und Sprachvermittlung"

▪   February 18th-19th: Workshop on research funding programmes, organised by the German Association of University Teachers of English in collaboration with the German Research Foundation, University of Freiburg, Germany; photos 

▪    May 12th-15th: Joint ICAME 26 and AAACL 6 conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; paper on "Real language for real learners: Towards a new concept of teaching grammar"; abstract; photos

▪   June 11th: Invited speaker at "The scope and limits of corpus linguistics -- Empiricism in the description and analysis of English" workshop, Free University of Berlin, Germany; presentation on "Pedagogical applications of corpora: Some resources, their potential, and a wish list"; abstract; photos

▪   July 14th-17th: Corpus Linguistics 2005 Conference in Birmingham, UK; host of a colloquium on "Corpora and language teaching: The state-of-play and future perspectives in research and practice", co-panelists: Silvia Bernardini, Sylviane Granger, Susan Hunston; abstract; photos 

▪    July 22nd-23rd: Conference on Evaluation and Text Types, Augsburg, Germany; paper entitled "Evaluation everywhere! An attempt to identify and classify evaluative language in a corpus of book reviews"; abstract; photos

▪   September 18th-21st: Anglistentag 2005 (Annual meeting of the German Association of University Teachers of English) in Bamberg, Germany; photos

▪    October 13th-15th: Phraseology 2005 conference "The many faces of phraseology" in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium ; paper on "A phraseology-driven approach to identifying evaluation in a book review corpus"; extended abstract; photos

▪   December 1st-3rd: Invited speaker at a symposium on "Corpora in language teaching", University of Gothenburg, Sweden; paper on "Corpus, Coursebook, Classroom -- Can researchers help teachers, learners, and materials writers?"; photos

2004

▪   January 27th: Guest lecture at the University of Osnabrück, Germany: "Corpus analysis and lexicology"

▪   May 19th-23rd: ICAME 25 Conference in Verona, Italy, presentation on "Taking stock of progressives in spoken English: Where are the patterns?" (ICAME: International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English, http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/icame.html); abstract; photos

▪    July 6th-9th: TaLC 6 Conference in Granada, Spain, presentation on "A need for better descriptions: Teaching the truth about progressives"; abstract; photos  

▪     September 2nd-5th: International Conference on Language, Politeness and Gender - The Pragmatic Roots (CLPG) in Helsinki, Finland, presentation on "Academic discourse, gender, and politeness"; abstract; photos

▪    September 16th: Teacher's Day - "The textbook myth or real language in the classroom", University of Saarbrücken, Germany

▪   October 21st-23rd: International symposium - "Corpus linguistics - perspectives for the future", University of Heidelberg, Germany; photos

▪   December 10th-11th: First international onference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association on "Current Trends in Cognitive Linguistics", University of Hamburg, Germany

2003

▪   April 23rd-27th: ICAME 24 Conference in Guernsey, UK; work-in-progress report on "Looking at 'looking' - functions and contexts of progressives in spoken English and 'school' English"; abstract; photos

▪  June 14th-16th: "Evaluation in Academic Discourse" conference, Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, Italy; presentation on "'This seems somewhat counterintuitive, though...' - negative evaluation in linguistic book reviews by male and female authors"; abstract; photos

▪   September 4th-6th: 36th Annual BAAL Meeting (British Association for Applied Linguistics), University of Leeds, UK

▪    October 2nd-4th: International conference on "Reconciling 'Anglistik': Didactic strategies for an interdisciplinary approach to literature, linguistics, and cultural studies", presentation on "Corpus analysis in English Studies", University of Trier, Germany; abstract; photos

▪  November 14th: 1st Lower-Saxon Colloquium on English language didactics, University of Hanover, Germany, presentation on "Zum direkten und indirekten Einsatz von Korpora im Englischunterricht" 

2002

▪   March 6th: Guest lecture at the Centre for Corpus Linguistics (now Centre for Corpus Research, http://www.corpus.bham.ac.uk), University of Birmingham; colloquium on "New ideas in corpus linguistics"

▪  June 14th-15th: Presentation at the First International IVACS Conference on "Language in use and language in the classroom", University of Limerick, Ireland

▪    July 27th-31st: TaLC 5 Conference in Bertinoro, Italy; presentation on "Comparing real and ideal language learner input: The use of an EFL textbook corpus in corpus linguistics and language teaching"; abstract;  photos

▪   October 30th: Lecture on "Where the computer meets language and literature: An introduction to English corpus linguistics" as part of the interdisciplinary lecture series "New Perspectives in English Studies", University of Cologne, Germany

▪  November 13th: Lecture on "Corpus linguistics - a usage-based approach to language learning and teaching", University of Cologne, Germany

2001

▪    January 17th: Work-in-progress report on my PhD research, linguistics colloquium, English Department, University of Cologne, Germany 

▪   March 30th - April 2nd: Corpus Linguistics 2001 conference, University of Lancaster, UK

▪    April 17th-21st: 35th Annual IATEFL conference, Brighton, UK

▪  July 5th: Guest lecture on "Using corpora in linguistic research", University of Düsseldorf, Germany

▪   September 6th-8th: Modality in Contemporary English conference, Verona, Italy; presentation on "A corpus-driven approach to modal auxiliaries and their didactics"

▪   October 14th-20th: Presentation at "How to use corpora in language teaching", intensive course in corpus linguistics at the Tuscan Word Centre, Italy; info on course proceedings

2000

▪   April 24th-30th: Presentation at "How to use corpora in language work", intensive course in corpus linguistics at the Tuscan Word Centre, Italy (http://www.twc.it)

▪     July 19th-23rd: TaLC 4 (Teaching and Language Corpora) Conference in Graz, Austria

▪   November 3rd: 11th Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 11) conference, University of Tilburg, Netherlands

▪    November 15th-18th: International round table: The syntax of tense and aspect, University of Paris 7, France