July 2019, Digital Humanities Workshops at Cornell, USA
Loredana Bercuci attended three Digital Humanities workshops at Cornell University on 10, 17, 18 July 2019, Ithaca, SUA: „Text Analysis with Digital Methods,” „Introductions to Visualizing Networks,” „Scrivener for Academic Writing.” This workshop „Text Analysis with Digital Methods” introduced the attendees to two types of digital techniques: (1) counting and simple probability methods and (2) […]
July 2019, EATAW conference, Gothenburg, Sweden
Claudia Doroholschi participated in the EATAW 2019 Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, on 1-4 July 2019, and presented two papers: “‘Cross-Disciplinary Academic Genre Research: a corpus-based methodological model” (co-authored with Madalina Chitez, Loredana Bercuci and Daniel Luches) and “Writing encounters within the EU’s Erasmus+ student exchange program: challenges, solutions and implications”, co-authored with Cristina Baniceru. Presentation […]
June 2019, LEXICOM Europe workshop, Mikulov, Czech Republic
One of the ROGER team members attended the LEXICOM Europe training in lexicography and lexical computing, held in Mikulov, Czech Republic. The workshop gathered scholars from Czech Republic, Great Britain, USA, Canada, Norway, Bulgaria, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands, Russia, South Africa. Researchers in lexicography, lexical computing, compiling dictionary texts (Oxford Dictionaries, Macmillan Dictionary), translation consultants […]
June 2019, Summer school participation, Language learning teaching and testing Lancaster, England
Andreea Dincă attended the Language learning teaching and testing summer school, one of the three Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics 2019, organized at Lancaster University, England, on 24-27 June 2019. More details about the summer schools here: The summer schools offered lectures and practical sessions from leading experts in corpus linguistics, such as Professor Tony McEnery, Dr. Dana […]
May 2019, lecture from the event series Digital Linguistics Talks in Timișoara (DIGITT)
Between May 24-27, 2019, the series of lecture events Digital Linguistics Talks Events in Timisoara (DIGITT) was launched, being promoted by the ROGER project team (Academic genres at the crossroads of tradition and internationalization: Corpus-based interlanguage research on genre use in student writing at Romanian universities). The first lecture was delivered by experts in the field of […]
May 2019, BAS conference papers, Timișoara
At the International Annual Conference BAS (British and American Studies, 29th Edition), organized by the Department of English at the Faculty of Letters, History and Theology at UVT, from 16 to 18 May 2019, ROGER researchers presented the following papers on applied linguistics topics: Presentation (1) Title:Translation Patterns in Romanian Trainee Texts: A Corpus-Based Exploratory […]
May 2019, working group meeting in Romania of the QUALINT Network
In the period 9-10 May 2019, the QUALINT network (Partnership for Quality Improvement in Internationalization of Higher Education) working group meeting took place, an event organized by the ROGER research team. The event brought together partners from Switzerland, Austria and Spain. Together with UVT representatives, they discussed issues related to measuring and improving the quality […]
April 2019, Paper at GlobELT 2019, Kyrenia
Loredana Bercuci presented the paper titled “Argumentative Structures in English for Social Sciences Writing. A Corpus Analysis” (co-authored with Mădăline Chitez) at the GlobELT 2019 conference in Kyrenia Cyprus, 11-14 Aprilie 2019. AbstractOne of the challenges in ESP classroom is teaching writing genres, especially to students who come from fields that are taught in L1. […]
April 2019, ELN Training School on Text Quality Assessment, Winterthur, Switzerland
One of the ROGER team members attended the ELN Training School on Text Quality Assessment: Current Digital Methods and Rating Practices, held in Winterthur, Switzerland between April 10 – 12 2019. Because ROGER aims to develop a methodology for the analysis of academic writing genres at Romanian universities in a contrastive perspective, rating practices and text quality […]
April 2019, Lauch Project AWICNET
The AWICNET (Academic Writing Collection Network) project is subordinated to the ROGER project (Academic genres at the crossroads of tradition and internationalization: Corpus-based interlanguage research on genre use in student writing at Romanian universities), which is ongoing at the Faculty of Letters, History and Theology of West University of Timișoara and involves the creation of […]
