conference announcement : talc 98 * * * * * call for registration : talc98 * * * * * * * * the 3rd international conference on teaching and language corpora will be held at keble college , oxford between 24 and 27 july 1998 . the use of large computer-held corpora of real language , no longer novel in linguistic research , is increasingly a focus of attention for language teachers . experiments in data driven learning and corpus-based methods are beginning to bear fruit in a wide range of language teaching environments . this international conference will bring together practitioners and theorists with a common interest in the usability of corpus data for such purposes as : * language teaching and learning * student-centred learning and investigation * cross-linguistic comparison * cultural and historical studies the conference programme includes : * a choice of pre-conference workshops classroom corpora ( chris tribble ) ; parallel corpora ( knut hofland ) ; the battle of the giants : boe vs . bnc ( jem clear and guy aston ) * invited lectures from jem clear ( cobuild ) , and from professsor jean aitchison ( oxford ) * about 40 formal papers * poster sessions * book and software exhibits full details of the speakers and the programme , including rates and registration forms , are available at the conference website : http : / / users . ox . ac . uk / ~ talc98 note registrations received before 29th may will qualify for a discount an additional registration fee will be charged for workshops workshop registration will close on 30 june ; places are limited