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What's Hard in German?

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Structural Difficulties, Research Approaches and Pedagogic Solutions

WHiG Symposium, Monday-Tuesday, 18-19 July 2011

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Local Organisers

Astrid Ensslin and Cedric Krummes

How to get to Bangor

Location, Directions and Maps

Accommodation in Bangor

Management Centre (24/7 reception)

Costs

no conference fee
complimentary breakfasts, lunches, dinner, and refreshments
free WiFi
£50 accommodation per night

Aims of the Symposium

introduction to our corpora WHiG and Falko
introduction to our corpus annotation
introduction to the corpus search platform Annis
reflecting on corpus-informed DaF materials

Programme

Day One - Monday, 18 July 2011

Time		Session Description
0900		Meet & greet, tea & coffee
0930	Astrid Ensslin	Welcome and introduction
0945	Astrid Ensslin	Falko and WHiG: Introducing our learner corpora
1015	Anke Lüdeling	Overuse-underuse on syntactic annotation of Falko
1045		Tea, coffee, and biscuits
1115	Cedric Krummes & Marc Reznicek	Hands-on session: Annotation of the learner data in the Falko corpus
1300		Lunch
1400	Hagen Hirschmann	Hands-on session: Linguistic searches in annotated Falko learner data
1600		Tea, coffee, and biscuits
1630	Astrid Ensslin (moderator)	Feedback from tutors and discussion: Student needs and applications
1730		Downtime for delegates
1900		Dinner

Day Two - Tuesday, 19 July 2011

Time		Session Description
0900	Detmar Meurers	On Annotating Learner Corpora: Why? Which kind of annotations? How?
1015		Tea, coffee, and biscuits
1030	Sylvia Jaworska & Astrid Ensslin (moderators)	Developing German L&T materials from WHiG and Falko
1200		Lunch

Photogallery from the Symposium

Organisation: Cedric Krummes

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