Talks

Keynote talks

  • Learning to write for school and university: the emergence of academic language. Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC). Manchester, UK. July 2024. ppt
  • Corpora and Phraseology. PHRAME Conference. Perugia, Italy. November 2023. pdf
  • What does quantitative corpus linguistics tell us about written vocabulary development? BAAL VocabSIG Annual Conference. University of Sheffield, May 2021. pdf
  • Corpus research on the development of children’s school writing. Fifth International Conference on Writing Analytics: Data Mining and the Teaching of Writing. University of Southern Florida, USA. January 2018. pdf
  • Corpus research on the development of children’s writing in L1 English. Learner Corpus Research Conference. Bozen/Bolzano, Italy. October 2017. pdf
  • Phraseology and variation in student writing. Technology for Second Language Learning Conference: Data-driven approaches to learning phraseology and formulaic language. Iowa State University, USA, September 2015. pdf
  • Mapping student writing across the disciplines. BALEAP Professional Issues Meeting on EAP and Corpora. Coventry University, UK, June 2014.

Other invited talks and workshops

  • Text types and disciplinary literacy. Second disciplinary literacy symposium. University of Bath & Royal High School Bath. June 2025 ppt. 
  • Mapping text types in academic writing. Applied Linguistics Lunchtime Seminar. University of Oxford. February 2025. ppt
  • Tracing development in academic language with a corpus. Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication. Kings College London. November 2024. ppt
  • Understanding vocabulary development in L1 and L2 student writing. BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG Symposium: Exploring the Use of Corpus Linguistics Research Methods. March 2024. pdf
  • Understanding the roles of grammar in first, second, and foreign language teaching. UKRI symposium: Meeting Future Challenges in Language Teaching and Testing. Seoul, South Korea. July 2023.
  • Corpus insights into children’s writing development. Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE). London. June 2023.
  • Researching children’s writing development. UKRI symposium: Meeting Future Challenges in Language Teaching and Testing. Coventry University. July 2022.
  • Development of academic vocabulary. Lancaster Summer School in Corpus Linguistics, Guest Lecture. Lancaster University. June 2022.
  • Researching writing development with a corpus. Universidad de Murcia, Spain. October 2021. (video)
  • What can quantitative corpus methods tell us about writing proficiency? Lancaster Language Testing Research Group. Lancaster University. June 2021.
  • Researching vocabulary sophistication in children’s writing. Department of Languages and Literatures. University of Basel, Switzerland. May 2021.
  • Studying writing development with a corpus. Department of Foreign Language Education, Middle Eastern Technical University, Turkey, January 2021. pdf.
  • What can quantitative measures of formulaic language use tell us about language development? Formulaic Language Research Network webinar series, July 2020. (video)
  • Understanding development in children’s writing through corpus analysis. Department of English Language & Literature. Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, March 2019.
  • Language development in children’s writing from six to sixteen. Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK, June 2018. pdf
  • Investigating linguistic development in children’s writing: The Growth in Grammar project. School of English Studies, University of Nottingham, UK, March 2017. pdf
  • Growth in Grammar: A multi-dimensional analysis of student writing between 5 and 16. Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, May 2016. pdf
  • Revisiting Collocational Priming. Corpus data and psycholinguistics seminar. ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences, Lancaster University, UK, May 2016. pdf
  • Learner Corpus Research and Psycholinguistics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, February 2016. pdf
  • Formulaicity within Turkish Words. Corpus-based Word Frequency: Methods and Applications. Mersin University, Turkey, February 2015.
  • Rethinking EAP vocabulary needs. Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex, UK, February 2013.
  • Organizing vocabulary teaching in EAP. INTO, University of Exeter, UK, June 2012.

Conference papers (last three years)

  • Developing a multidimensional tool to characterise types of writing tasks across five languages at secondary level (with Ingrid Kristine Hasund, Larissa Goulart, Hildegunn Dirdal, & Eli-Marie Drange). VAR4LCR: Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research. UC Louvain, July 2025)
  • Evaluating a non-categorical approach to text types in school and university writing (with Ingrid Kristine Hasund, & Larissa Goulart). VAR4LCR: Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research. UC Louvain, July 2025.
  • Syntactic complexity across L1, L2 and L3 (with Hildegunn Dirdal, & Stine H. Johansen). Learner Corpus Research, University of Tartu, September 2024.
  • Exploring developmental patterns of adverbial linkers in children’s writing: Variation across disciplines, text types, and year groups (with Erdem Akbaş, Elif Barbaros, & Arwa Aldawood). TaLC Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, July, 2023. (handout)
  • Clause types in early L3 writing (with Hildegunn Dirdal & Stine Johansen). I NLTL Conference. University of Agder, September 2023.
  • Corpus linguistic approaches to school-aged children’s writing (panel, with Hildegunn Dirdal, Yaling Hsiao, Victorina Gonzolez-Diaz). Corpus Linguistics Conference, University of Lancaster, July 2023