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Konferenzen & Vorträge/

Conferences & Presentations

2010  

▪     ?6.-9. März/March 6st-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 Brook O'Donnell); poster on "The Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers (MICUSP): Collection, annotation, classification, and online distribution" (with Matthew Brook O'Donnell)

▪    26.-30. Mai/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 Brook O'Donnell); poster on "How to uncover the phraseological profile of a text type"

▪   30. Juni-3. Juli/June 30th-July 3rd: TaLC 9 in Brno, Czech Republic; plenary speaker

2009

▪      21.-24. März/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 Brook O'Donnell, Stefan Gries and Stefanie Wulff)

▪    22. Mai/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?"

▪      27.-31. Mai/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 Brook O'Donnell) on "From student hard drive to web corpus: The design, compilation, annotation and online distribution of the MICUSP corpus"; photos

▪   11.-13. Juni/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

▪      20.-23. Juli/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 Brook O'Donnell) on "Exploring the variation and distribution of academic phrase-frames in MICUSP"

▪    8.-11. Oktober/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 Brook O'Donnell)

▪     29. Oktober - 1. November/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 Brook O'Donnell and Nick Ellis); photos

2008

▪      12.-15. März/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

▪      29. März - 1. April/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

▪       3.-6. Juli/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

▪      24.-29. August/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

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

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

▪      22-29 Oktober/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 at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS); photos

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

2007

▪     25. Januar/January 25th: Leitung eines Workshops zum Thema "Korpusanalyse in der Literaturwissenschaft", Gießener Graduiertenzentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen/Workshop on corpus analysis and literary studies, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, University of Giessen

▪      19. Februar/February 19th: Gastvortrag am English Language Institute der University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, USA/Invited talk at the University of Michigan English Language Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; some photos from the A2 trip

▪ 4. Mai/May 4th: Aston Corpus Symposium, Aston University, Birmingham (http://corpus.aston.ac.uk/symposium.html)/Aston Corpus Symposium in Birmingham, UK; photos

▪ 23.-27. Mai/May 23th-27th: 28. ICAME Konferenz in Stratford-upon-Avon (http://rdues.uce.ac.uk/icame/); Vortrag zum Thema "Corpora and academic discourse analysis: Providing insights into the lexicalgrammar of linguistic book reviews"/ICAME 28 conference in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK; photos

▪       29. Mai - 4. Juni/May 29th - June 4th: Gastforscherin am English Language Institute der University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, USA/Visiting Researcher at the University of Michigan English Language Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

▪    27.-30. Juli/July 27th-30th: Internationale Corpus Linguistics 2007 Konferenz in Birmingham (http://www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/conference2007/index.htm); Workshop zum Thema "Extracting collocations from specialised corpora" (mit Michael Barlow); Vortrag zum Thema "Think local! On the need for text-type specific lexical grammars"/Corpus Linguistics 2007 Conference in Birmingham, UK; photos

▪      25.-27. Oktober/October 25th-27th: Vortrag anlässlich eines Symposiums zum Thema "Chunks in Corpus Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics" in Erlangen (auf Einladung von Prof. Dr. Thomas Herbst)/Invited lecture at a symposium on "Chunks in Corpus Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics", University of Erlangen, Germany; programme; photos

▪      6.-8. November/November 6th-8th: Keynote speaker bei einer internationalen Konferenz zum Thema "Corpus-based approaches to ELT", Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spanien /Keynote speaker at the 1st International Conference on Corpus-based Approaches to ELT, University of Jaume I, Castellon, Spain; photos; more photos 

▪      7. Dezember/December 7th: Präsentation zum neuen MICASE online interface (mit Stefanie Wulff), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA/Presentation on "The new MICASE online interface" (with Stefanie Wulff), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

2006

▪       27. Januar/January 27th: Vortrag anlässlich eines Symposiums zu Bernhard Kettemanns 60. Geburtstag, Meerscheinschloss, Graz; Vortragstitel: "The word is not enough! Searching for units of meaning in linguistic discourse" /Invited lecture at a symposium celebrating Bernhard Kettemann's 60th birthday; presentation entitled "The word is not enough! Searching for units of meaning in linguistic discourse"; photos

▪       9. Mai/May 9th: Vortrag anlässlich der 175-Jahrfeier der Universität Hannover: "Getting your hands on real English - Entdecken von typischen Sprachmustern in der britischen Alltags-konversation"/Lecture at the University of Hanover's 175th anniversary celebrations: "Getting your hands on real English - Entdecken von typischen Sprachmustern in der britischen Alltagskonversation"

▪       24.-28. Mai/May 24th-28th: 27. ICAME Konferenz in Helsinki;  Vortrag mit dem Titel: "What linguists want: Exploring the language of a discourse community" (http://www.eng.helsinki.fi/varieng/icame/)/ICAME 27 conference at the Hanasaari Cultural Centre, Helsinki, Finland; paper entitled "What linguists want: Exploring the language of a discourse community"; abstract; photos

▪      22. Juni/June 22nd: Gastvortrag an der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen im Rahmen eines Hauptseminars zum Thema "The English Verb" (Prof. Joybrato Mukherjee)/Guest lecture at the University of Gießen, Germany

▪      1.-4. Juli/July 1st-4th: 7. TaLC Konferenz (Teaching and Language Corpora) in Paris (http://talc7.eila.jussieu.fr/welcome.en.shtml)/TaLC 7 Conference in Paris, France; photos

▪   17.-20. September/September 17th-20th: Anglistentag 2006 in Halle an der Saale; Mitwirkung in der Sektion "Standards and norms in language description and language teaching"; Vortrag: "Learner language and the norms in native corpora and EFL teaching materials - A case study of English conditionals"; http://anglistentag.anglistik.uni-halle.de//Anglistentag 2006 (Annual meeting of the German Association of University Teachers of English) in Halle/Saale, Germany; abstract; photos

▪   5.-7. Oktober/October 5th-7th: Organisation (mit Rainer Schulze) einer internationalen Konferenz zum Thema "Exploring the Lexis-Grammar Interface" (ELeGI), Universität Hannover; http://www.elegi-2006.com/Organisation of ELeGI 2006, an international conference on the topic "Exploring the Lexis-Grammar Interface", University of Hanover, Germany; photos

▪      16. Oktober/October 16th: Referentin beim 3. Teachers' Day zum Thema "Spoken Grammar" an der Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken/Invited speaker at the 3rd Teachers' Day on "Spoken Grammar", University of Saarbrücken, Germany

▪      27.-31. Oktober/October 27th-31st: 'Topic leader' bei einem Korpuslinguistik-Intensivkurs zum Thema "Special and Varied Corpora", Tuscan Word Centre, Italien/Topic leader on a short intensive course on the topic "Special and Varied Corpora", Tuscan Word Centre, Italy; course description; location; photos; more photos; even more photos; still more photos; yet more photos

2005

▪       2. Februar/February 2nd: Vortrag im Rahmen der LinguA-Reihe (Linguistischer Arbeitskreis, http://www.fbls.uni-hannover.de/LinguA/) an der Universität Hannover: "Make it real - Korpusanalyse und ihre Anwendung in Linguistik und Sprachvermittlung"/Invited lecture as part of the LinguA lecture series, University of Hanover, Germany: "Make it real - Corpus analysis and its applications in linguistics and language teaching"

▪       18.-19. Februar/February 18th-19th: Workshop des Deutschen Anglistenverbandes und der DFG zum Thema "Fördermöglichkeiten für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs aus der Anglistik" in Freiburg (http://www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/institut/lskorte/dfgworkshop.html)/ 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 

▪       12.-15. Mai/May 12th-15th: 26. ICAME Konferenz in Ann Arbor, Michigan (in Kombination mit der 6. Jahrestagung der American Association of Applied Corpus Linguistics, AAACL) conference website; Vortrag mit dem Titel "Real language for real learners: Towards a new concept of teaching grammar"/Joint ICAME 26 and AAACL 6 conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; paper entitled "Real language for real learners: Towards a new concept of teaching grammar"; abstract; photos

▪    11. Juni/June 11th: Einladung zu einem Vortrag anlässlich des Korpuslinguistik-Workshops "The scope and limits of corpus linguistics -- Empiricism in the description and analysis of English" in Berlin, Freie Universität (http://www.philologie.fu-berlin.de/~gast/corpusling/); Vortrag mit dem Titel: "Pedagogical applications of corpora: Some resources, their potential, and a wish list"/Invited paper at "The scope and limits of corpus linguistics -- Empiricism in the description and analysis of English" workshop, Free University of Berlin, Germany; abstract; photos

▪    14.-17. Juli/July 14th-17th: Internationale Corpus Linguistics 2005 Konferenz in Birmingham (http://www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/conference2005/index.htm) ; Organisation eines Kolloquiums zum Thema "Corpora and language teaching: The state-of-play and future perspectives in research and practice"/Corpus Linguistics 2005 Conference in Birmingham, UK; 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 

▪   22.-23. Juli/July 22nd-23rd: Konferenz zu Evaluation und Textsorten in Augsburg; Vortrag mit dem Titel: "Evaluation everywhere! An attempt to identify and classify evaluative language in a corpus of book reviews"/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; conference website; photos

▪   18.-21. September/September 18th-21st: Anglistentag 2005 (Jahrestagung des Deutschen Anglistenverbandes) in Bamberg/Anglistentag 2005 (Annual meeting of the German Association of University Teachers of English) in Bamberg, Germany; http://www.uni-bamberg.de/split/englit/pages/anglistentag.htm; photos

▪    13.-15. Oktober/October 13th-15th: Phraseology 2005 Konferenz in Louvain-la-Neuve (http://cecl.fltr.ucl.ac.be/PHRASEO/phraseology2005.html); Vortrag mit dem Titel "A phraseology-driven approach to identifying evaluation in a book review corpus"/Phraseology 2005 conference "The many faces of phraseology" in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium ; paper entitled "A phraseology-driven approach to identifying evaluation in a book review corpus"; extended abstract: photos

▪    1.-3. Dezember/December 1st-3rd: Einladung zu einem Vortrag anlässlich eines Symposiums zum Thema "Corpora in language teaching", organisiert von Karin Aijmer, Universität Göteborg; Vortragstitel: "Corpus, Coursebook, Classroom -- Can researchers help teachers, learners, and materials writers?"/Invited paper at a symposium on "Corpora in language teaching", entitled "Corpus, Coursebook, Classroom -- Can researchers help teachers, learners, and materials writers?", University of Gothenburg, Sweden; photos

2004

▪      27. Januar/January 27th: Gastvortrag an der Universität Osnabrück: "Corpus analysis and lexicology"/Guest lecture at the University of Osnabrück, Germany: "Corpus analysis and lexicology"

▪      19.-23. Mai/May 19th-23rd: 25. ICAME Konferenz in Verona, Vortrag mit dem Titel "Taking stock of progressives in spoken English: Where are the patterns?"/ICAME 25 Conference in Verona, Italy, presentation entitled "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

▪      6.-9. Juli/July 6th-9th: 6. TaLC Konferenz (Teaching and Language Corpora) in Granada (http://www.ugr.es/~talc6), Vortrag mit dem Titel "A need for better descriptions: Teaching the truth about progressives"/TaLC 6 Conference in Granada, Spain, presentation entitled "A need for better descriptions: Teaching the truth about progressives"; abstract; photos  

▪     2.-5. September/September 2nd-5th: Internationale "Language, Politeness and Gender" Konferenz in Helsinki (http://www.nord.helsinki.fi/clpg/CLPG/), Vortrag mit dem Titel "Academic discourse, gender, and politeness"/International Conference on Language, Politeness and Gender - The Pragmatic Roots (CLPG) in Helsinki, Finland, presentation entitled "Academic discourse, gender, and politeness"; abstract at http://www.nord.helsinki.fi/clpg/CLPG/Ute%20Romer.pdf; photos

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

▪      21.-23. Oktober/October 21st-23rd: Internationales Symposium zum Thema "Corpus linguistics - perspectives for the future", Universität Heidelberg/International symposium - "Corpus linguistics - perspectives for the future", University of Heidelberg, Germany; information on the symposium; photos

▪      10.-11. Dezember/December 10th-11th: Internationale Konferenz - "Current Trends in Cognitive Linguistics", Universität Hamburg/International conference - "Current Trends in Cognitive Linguistics", University of Hamburg, Germany (http://webapp.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/~DGKL/DGKL_04/index.shtml)

2003

▪      23.-27. April/April 23rd-27th: 24. ICAME Konferenz in Guernsey, Vortrag mit dem Titel "Looking at 'looking' - functions and contexts of progressives in spoken English and 'school' English"/ICAME 24 Conference in Guernsey, UK, work-in-progress report entitled "Looking at 'looking' - functions and contexts of progressives in spoken English and 'school' English" (ICAME: International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English, http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/icame.html); abstract; photos

▪      14.-16. Juni/June 14th-16th: "Evaluation in Academic Discourse" Konferenz, Certosa di Pontignano, Siena (http://www.unisi.it/eventi/ead/index.htm), Vortrag mit dem Titel "'This seems somewhat counterintuitive, though...' - negative evaluation in linguistic book reviews by male and female authors"/"Evaluation in Academic Discourse" conference, Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, Italy, presentation entitled "'This seems somewhat counterintuitive, though...' - negative evaluation in linguistic book reviews by male and female authors"; abstract at http://www.unisi.it/eventi/ead/romer.pdf; photos

▪      4.-6. September/September 4th-6th: 36. Jahrestagung der British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL), Universität Leeds/36th Annual BAAL Meeting, University of Leeds, UK (http://www.baal.org.uk/baal03call.htm)

▪      2.-4. Oktober/October 2nd-4th: Internationale Konferenz - "Reconciling 'Anglistik': Didactic strategies for an interdisciplinary approach to literature, linguistics, and cultural studies", Universität Trier, Vortrag zum Thema "Corpus analysis in English Studies"/International conference - "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

▪      14. November/November 14th: 1. Niedersächsisches Kolloquium "Didaktik des Englischen" (NiKolDi), Universität Hannover, Vortrag mit dem Titel "Zum direkten und indirekten Einsatz von Korpora im Englischunterricht"/1st Lower-Saxon Colloquium on English language didactics, University of Hanover, Germany, presentation on the direct and indirect use of corpora in English language teaching

2002

▪      6. März/March 6th: Gastvortrag im Rahmen des Kolloquiums "New ideas in corpus linguistics" am Centre for Corpus Linguistics an der Universität Birmingham (http://www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/ccl/)/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"

▪      14.-15. Juni/June 14th-15th: Vortrag anlässlich der ersten IVACS Konferenz (Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies group) zu "Language in use and language in the classroom", Universität Limerick (http://www.mic.ul.ie/ivacs/)/Presentation at the First International IVACS Conference on "Language in use and language in the classroom", University of Limerick, Ireland

▪      27.-31. Juli/July 27th-31st: 5. TaLC Konferenz (Teaching and Language Corpora) in Bertinoro, Vortrag mit dem Titel "Comparing real and ideal language learner input: The use of an EFL textbook corpus in corpus linguistics and language teaching"/TaLC 5 Conference in Bertinoro, Italy, presentation entitled "Comparing real and ideal language learner input: The use of an EFL textbook corpus in corpus linguistics and language teaching"; abstract; info on proceedings; photos

▪      30. Oktober/October 30th: Vortrag mit dem Titel "Where the computer meets language and literature: An introduction to English corpus linguistics" im Rahmen der interdisziplinären Ringvorlesung "New Perspectives in English Studies", Universität zu Köln/Lecture entitled "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

▪      13. November/November 13th: Vortrag mit dem Titel "Corpus linguistics - a usage-based approach to language learning and teaching", Universität zu Köln/Lecture entitled "Corpus linguistics - a usage-based approach to language learning and teaching", University of Cologne, Germany

2001

▪      17. Januar/January 17th: Work-in-progress-Präsentation zu meinem Promotionsprojekt im Rahmen des Linguistikkolloquiums am Englischen Seminar der Universität zu Köln/Work-in-progress report on my PhD research, linguistics colloquium, English Department, University of Cologne, Germany 

▪      30. März - 2. April/March 30th - April 2nd: Teilnahme an der internationalen "Corpus Linguistics 2001" Konferenz, Universität Lancaster/"Corpus Linguistics 2001" conference, University of Lancaster, UK; (http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2001.html)

▪      17.-21. April/April 17th-21st: Teilnahme an der 35. Jahrestagung der International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), Brighton/35th Annual IATEFL conference, Brighton, UK; (http://www.iatefl.org/)

▪      5. Juli/July 5th: Gastvortrag zum Thema "Using corpora in linguistic research" am Englischen Seminar der Universität Düsseldorf/Guest lecture on "Using corpora in linguistic research", University of Düsseldorf, Germany

▪      6.-8. September/September 6th-8th: "Modality in Contemporary English" Konferenz, Verona, Vortrag mit dem Titel "A corpus-driven approach to modal auxiliaries and their didactics"/"Modality in Contemporary English" conference, Verona, Italy, presentation entitled "A corpus-driven approach to modal auxiliaries and their didactics"

▪    14.-20. Oktober/October 14th-20th: Vortrag im Rahmen eines Korpuslinguistik-Intensivkurses zum Thema "How to use corpora in language teaching", Tuscan Word Centre, Italien/Presentation at "How to use corpora in language teaching", intensive course in corpus linguistics at the Tuscan Word Centre, Italy (http://www.twc.it); info on course proceedings

2000

▪      24.-30. April/April 24th-30th: Vortrag im Rahmen eines Korpuslinguistik-Intensivkurses unter Leitung von John Sinclair und Elena Tognini-Bonelli zum Thema "How to use corpora in language work", Tuscan Word Centre, Italien/Presentation at "How to use corpora in language work", intensive course in corpus linguistics at the Tuscan Word Centre, Italy (http://www.twc.it)

▪      19.-23. Juli/July 19th-23rd: Teilnahme an der 4. TaLC Konferenz (Teaching and Language Corpora) in Graz/TaLC 4 Conference in Graz, Austria (http://www-gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at/talc2000/)

▪      3. November/November 3rd: Teilnahme an der 11. "Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands" (CLIN) Konferenz, Universität Tilburg/"Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands" (CLIN) conference, University of Tilburg, the Netherlands (http://ilk.kub.nl/clin2000/)

▪      15.-18. November/November 15th-18th: Teilnahme am "International round table: The syntax of tense and aspect", Universität Paris 7/"International round table: The syntax of tense and aspect", University of Paris 7, France (http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/TA.html)