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Forthcoming workshops

"The Acquisition of Tense, Aspect and Mood in L1 and L2"
Date et lieu: Aston University, Birmingham R.U. 9-10 février 2008

"The nature and development of L2 French"
Date et lieu: 7-8 juillet 2008, University of Southampton
For further details please see the website
The conference programme and poster are now available for download.

"Mise en scène des pratiques langagières: le cas du français"
Date et Lieu: 17-18 September 2008, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
The call for papers is now available and can be downloaded here.

 

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Past workshops

2006-2007

Computer-assisted Translation Tools Workshop – “CAT, Corpora and Concordancing” 

UWE, Bristol, 16/17 June 2007

This Hands-on Workshop aims to introduce participants to Computer-assisted Translation Tools, such as Trados, Metatexis and Paraconc and to studies based on parallel corpora.

 

Invited speaker: Dorothy Kenny, Dublin City University

 

Organiser: Kate Beeching

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“Les français des corpus 2”

UWE, Bristol, 13 January 2007

Focus on:

  • A reference corpus for French
  • Spoken corpora
  • Translation corpora
  • Learner corpora
  • Corpus-based studies of French

Invited speakers: Mireille Bilger, Florence Myles, Stefan Pfaender, Raphael Salkie

 

Organisers: Kate.Beeching and Harry Tyne

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2005-2006

Friday 9th – Saturday 10th June 2006

 

"Retour aux variétés avancées dans l’acquisition d’une langue seconde /
Revisiting advanced varieties in L2 learning"


Emmanuelle Labeau, Aston University, Birmingham (UK).

 

1st. September 2006

 

“Le conte”

Janice Carruthers (Dublin)

 

3-4 November 2006

 

Pragmatique comparée à la croisée des chemins: Cadres du discours et perceptions culturelles

http://www.llt.uea.ac.uk/news_events/crossculturalpragmatics.htm

 

Marie-Noelle Guillot, University of East Anglia.

 

Diachronie et sémantique du système verbal du français

11-13 September 2003, Aston University (Birmingham)
Emmanuelle Labeau (Aston University)
e.labeau@aston.ac.uk

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Second UK French Linguistics Day
THEME: Mélanges de langues: les conséquences du contact linguistique

15 March 2003, London Metropolitan University
Tim Pooley (London Metropolitan University)
t.pooley@londonmet.ac.uk

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Politeness and (business) communication across national borders

15 February 2003, University of the West of England, Bristol
Kate Beeching (University of the West of England)
Kate.Beeching@uwe.ac.uk

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Workshop for potential postgraduates in French Language Studies

1 February 2003, Birkbeck College, London
Aidan Coveney (University of Exeter)
a.b.coveney@ex.ac.uk

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Linguistic Development in French

18-19 July 2002, University of Southampton
Florence Myles (University of Southampton)
fjm@soton.ac.uk
Sarah Rule (University of Southampton)
sjr1@soton.ac.uk


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Les français des corpus

16 February 2002, University of the West of England, Bristol
Kate Beeching (University of the West of England)
Kate.Beeching@uwe.ac.uk

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Discourse

November 2001, Birkbeck College, London
Penny Sewell (Birkbeck College)
p.sewell@bbk.ac.uk

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Rencontres doctorales

6 May 2000, Institut Français, London
Christine Fiandino (Sheffield University)
c.fiandino@shef.ac.uk

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French Variation Forum

25 March 2000, London Guildhall University
Tim Pooley
pooley@lgu.ac.uk

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Lexis workshop

11 March 2000, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London
Hilary Wise

h.wise@qmw.ac.uk

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La langue des jeunes Français : droit de parole, droit de cité

19 juin 1999 : University of Bradford
Farid Aitsiselmi
(University of Bradford)
faitsise@bradford.ac.uk

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De la théorie à la pratique des théories de lénonciation
22 mai 1999 : University of Glasgow
Renée Birks (University of Glasgow)
r.birks@french.arts.gla.ac.uk

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Les temps du passé en français et leur enseignement

25 mars 1999, Aston University, Birmingham
Emmanuelle Labeau (Aston University)
E.Labeau@Aston.ac.uk

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Atelier/Rencontre : Doctorales de Sheffield

27 février 1999, Université de Sheffield
Christine Fiandino (Sheffield University)
C.fiandino@shef.ac.uk

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Discours masculin, Discours féminin

6 février 1999, Bristol
Kate Beeching, (University of the West of England, Bristol)
k-beeching@wpg.ac.uk

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Morphologie, syntaxe et sémantique du verbe français

28 novembre 1998, Maison Française d’Oxford
J.C. Smith (St Catherine
’s, Oxford)
johncharles.smith@st-catherines.oxford.ac.uk

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Les accents des Français: Variétés régionales et sociolectales

10 octobre 1998, London Guildhall University,
Marie-Anne Hintze (University of Leeds)
m.a.hintze@leeds.ac.uk

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1998 PG Day conference on Research and Research Methods

16th May 1998, Sheffield
Christine Fiandino (Sheffield University)
C.fiandino@shef.ac.uk

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Organising a workshop

Organising a workshop is easier in the age of electronic mail: you can reach large numbers of potential contributors with a call for papers via AFLS-news, and advertise the event itself widely through the same channel. Cahiers are here to help as well.
An atelier should be an enjoyable and fruitful occasion, both from an academic and a social perspective. Organising one can equally be rewarding and fun!
If you have an idea, please share it with the workshops coordinator whose function it is to help with such events!
This is:

Pascale Hadermann
Université de Gand
Département de Français
Blandijnberg 2
B-9000 Gand
Belgique
Tel: +32 9 264 40 55

Email:
pascale.hadermann@ugent.be

j.dewaele@bbk.ac.uk

The workshop checklist...

1. Are you planning a one day or a two day event? Many institutions now have a Conference Office which will help with finding accommodation and with catering, and which should offer good advice on the possibility of VAT exemption. In some cases, outside caterers can also offer a good deal for a buffet lunch. Finding out about possibilities need not take a lot of time or energy.

2. A call for papers via AFLS-news will help you to organise the programme. It is also a good way to get in touch with like-minded people.

3. You may like to invite a keynote speaker from France: your local BCLE, and the Service Culturel in London could meet most of the expenses involved if you make a strong case, either directly or through AFLS.

4. Decide what the workshop fee will be on the basis of estimated expenditure and cost. AFLS can provide a float to cover initial expenses, but workshops should be self-financing or make a profit for AFLS. Keeping a record of expenditure and income need not be a time-consuming and daunting task if you write up the accounts as you go along.

5. Publicize the event via AFLS-News, the Cahiers and any other journal or bulletin of your choice. The publicity officer will be able to help. For a mailshot to all AFLS members, you can get a list of current members and their addresses from Henry Tyne, the membership secretary. Your departmental secretary may also already have a set of addresses for all French departments in the country - if not, these can easily be produced from the directory published by The Service Culturel de l'Ambassade in London, generally available to all Departments.


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