CLaC is delighted to welcome visiting scholar Betül Bal-Gezegin, who is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language Teaching at Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey. Betül earned her Bachelor’s and PhD degrees in Foreign Language Education from Middle East Technical University. Additionally, she holds a Master’s degree in Applied …
CLaC was delighted to welcome Mathias Russnes on 10 April to talk about his PhD research into ‘Semantic prosody, register and polysemy’. This was a very thought-provoking talk open to staff and students of the School of Humanities and associated research centres, the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities and …
Professor Wasima Shehzad from the Corpus Research Centre at AIR university in Islamabad recently visited Coventry University as part of the PAK Mobility project. CLaC has longstanding links with this Corpus Centre, with members of CLaC having visited, examined and being on advisory boards there. Wasima (on the right) is …
CLaC was delighted to host two well-attended talks on Wednesday 5 April. In the first of these, Benet Vincent talked about recurrent issues in N-gram / Lexical Bundle research, chief amongst them the confusion of method (lexical bundle analysis) with the phenomenon being investigated (phraseology, formulas). Benet aims to develop …
CLaC is delighted to welcome Dr Hülya Mısır for a two-week research training visit on corpora funded by an Erasmus grant from Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Türkiye. Hülya recently gained her doctorate from METU. She has also worked at Cappadocia University, Florida International University and Ufuk University. …
CLaC is delighted to welcome Aysel Şahin Kızıl from İzmir Bakırçay University, Turkey as a visiting researcher. Aysel is an experienced educator and researcher with research interests in two main areas, computer assisted language learning and the use of corpus linguistics in language teaching & learning. In the area of …
