What quantitative corpus linguistics has and hasn’t taught us about written vocabulary development. BAAL VocabSIG Annual Conference. University of Sheffield (currently postponed due to Covid-19 restrictions).
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 (last three years)
What can quantitative measures of formulaic language use tell us about language development? Formulaic Language Research Network webinar series, July 2020. (webinar)
Understanding development in children’s writing through corpus analysis. Department of English Language & Literature. Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, March 2019. (webinar)
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.
Conference papers (last three years)
Noun phrase development across genres in English children’s writing. International Corpus Linguistics Conference, Cardiff University, UK, July 2019.
Development in children’s written grammar from key stages one to four. BAAL Linguistics and Knowledge about Language in Education SIG. University of Oxford, UK, July 2019. pdf
Language development in children’s writing from six to sixteen. Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK, June 2018. pdfhandout
Lexical development in English school children’s writing from six to sixteen. AACL Conference. Georgia State University, USA, September 2018. pdf
Lexical development in English school children’s writing from six to sixteen. BAAL Vocab SIG. University College London, UK, July 2018. pdf
Lexical development in English school children’s writing from six to sixteen. IVACS International Biennial Conference. University of Malta, Malta, June 2018. pdf
Development in L1 written vocabulary between 6 and 14. BAAL Vocab SIG. University of Reading, UK, July 2017. pdf
Growth in Grammar: A multidimensional analysis of student writing between 5 and 16. International Conference on Writing Analytics. University of Southern Florida, USA, January 2017. pdf
Growth in Grammar: A multi-dimensional analysis of student writing between 5 and 16. The 37thICAME Conference. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, May 2016. pdf
Lexical Bundles and Disciplinary Variation in University Students’ Writing: Mapping the Territories. Biennial BALEAP Conference. University of Leicester, UK, April 2015. pdf