So the ELT conference flavor is upon us in addition to I've but spent the Easter weekend at my desk finalizing 3 conference sessions I'm going to endure presenting inward the side past times side distich of weeks; ii at IATEFL inward Manchester, in addition to i the next weekend at the BALEAP conference inward Leicester.
I've been colour-coding my sessions to campaign in addition to maintain them dissever inward my ain head, thence here's what's coming up:
Date: x April
Event: MaWSIG PCE, IATEFL Manchester
Room: Exchange 11
Time: 15.00 - 15.30
Colour coding: orangish (to endure publisher-neutral!)
Outline: With a background inward lexicography, I’m real familiar amongst corpus tools in addition to discovery them invaluable when I’m writing all kinds of ELT materials. This session volition focus on practical ways inward which corpus tools tin endure useful to an ELT materials writer. It volition expect at things similar finding authentic examples, finding answers to tricky linguistic communication problems, checking collocations, complementation patterns etc. in addition to but looking for inspiration. It volition also accept a brief expect at dissimilar types of corpora (those owned past times publishers, publicly available, specialist in addition to build-your- own) in addition to how writers tin access them.
Date: eleven April
Event: IATEFL Manchester
Room: Charter 1
Time: 15.05 - 15.35
Colour coding: scarlet (for Collins) in addition to turquoise (for the COBUILD dictionary)
Outline: As modern learner's dictionaries maintain to evolve, nosotros postulate to maintain our referencing skills up-to-date. This session provides practical ideas for learners in addition to teachers to fully exploit the latest COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary, online in addition to digital dictionaries to help vocabulary learning in addition to introduces the novel Collins Corpus, a unique reference tool for teachers in addition to root of authetic examples.
Looking forwards to catching upwards amongst lots of folks inward Manchester!
I'll post details of my BALEAP session (green in addition to pink!) side past times side calendar week ...
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