Phil Durrant
@phil-durrant.bsky.social
Professor of Applied Linguistics and Education, University of Exeter. https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/20179-phil-durrant
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One for the calendars 📅 #IVACS2026 will take place in Malta, July 1-3 2026! I'm honoured to be among the plenary speakers. More details on the conference and call for papers here: www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs...
September 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
One for the calendars 📅 #IVACS2026 will take place in Malta, July 1-3 2026! I'm honoured to be among the plenary speakers. More details on the conference and call for papers here: www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs...
I am seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the ESRC-funded project 'Writing Tasks at School and University'.
The post is full-time and will run from 1st November 2025 to 31st January 2029. See below for a brief overview of the project.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
The post is full-time and will run from 1st November 2025 to 31st January 2029. See below for a brief overview of the project.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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September 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I am seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the ESRC-funded project 'Writing Tasks at School and University'.
The post is full-time and will run from 1st November 2025 to 31st January 2029. See below for a brief overview of the project.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
The post is full-time and will run from 1st November 2025 to 31st January 2029. See below for a brief overview of the project.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
In case anyone needs some weekend reading, my contribution to a special issue of Applied Corpus Linguistics, dedicated to corpus research into children's writing, is now available open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
What can a corpus tell us about school writing? Findings, challenges, and future directions
Much child corpus research has focused on the language of school writing. In the first part of this paper, I discuss what this work can contribute to …
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May 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
In case anyone needs some weekend reading, my contribution to a special issue of Applied Corpus Linguistics, dedicated to corpus research into children's writing, is now available open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Happy to share my review of 'Vocabulary, Corpus and Language Teaching', just out in ELT Journal.
#artificialintelligence #ChatGPT #elt
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#artificialintelligence #ChatGPT #elt
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Vocabulary, corpus and language teaching. A machine-generated literature overview
The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 can be classified as a pivotal moment, one that compels us to pause and consider some fundamental questions related
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February 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Happy to share my review of 'Vocabulary, Corpus and Language Teaching', just out in ELT Journal.
#artificialintelligence #ChatGPT #elt
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#artificialintelligence #ChatGPT #elt
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Call for papers: BAAL SIG Vocabulary Studies Annual Conference 2025
Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Vocabulary in Multilingual Contexts, 28-30 May 2025, University of Edinburgh, UK
A title and a 300-word abstract should be submitted tinyurl.com/BAALVOCABSIG... by the 19th of February 2025.
Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Vocabulary in Multilingual Contexts, 28-30 May 2025, University of Edinburgh, UK
A title and a 300-word abstract should be submitted tinyurl.com/BAALVOCABSIG... by the 19th of February 2025.
February 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Call for papers: BAAL SIG Vocabulary Studies Annual Conference 2025
Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Vocabulary in Multilingual Contexts, 28-30 May 2025, University of Edinburgh, UK
A title and a 300-word abstract should be submitted tinyurl.com/BAALVOCABSIG... by the 19th of February 2025.
Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Vocabulary in Multilingual Contexts, 28-30 May 2025, University of Edinburgh, UK
A title and a 300-word abstract should be submitted tinyurl.com/BAALVOCABSIG... by the 19th of February 2025.
Our recent webinar for those interested in applying for a Hornby scholarship is now available online...https://youtu.be/yEQq1iqaYq0?si=RMoQrEzqjOlBvL8j
Hornby Scholarships for international ELT professionals from middle- and low-income countries to study MEd TESOL at Exeter University.
For more information and guidance, you are welcome to attend a webinar 28 Jan 1200-1300 (UK time). Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
For more information and guidance, you are welcome to attend a webinar 28 Jan 1200-1300 (UK time). Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
January 29, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Our recent webinar for those interested in applying for a Hornby scholarship is now available online...https://youtu.be/yEQq1iqaYq0?si=RMoQrEzqjOlBvL8j
My recent inaugural lecture on corpus research into academic language is now available on YouTube... youtu.be/hlonWrFVgQo?...
Professor Philip Durrant's Inaugural Lecture
YouTube video by University of Exeter
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January 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
My recent inaugural lecture on corpus research into academic language is now available on YouTube... youtu.be/hlonWrFVgQo?...
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Newcastle shrinks ‘unfunded’ research time under £30m cuts.
University tells staff to reduce research activity without external funding, amid potential for 300 redundancies
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
University tells staff to reduce research activity without external funding, amid potential for 300 redundancies
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Newcastle shrinks ‘unfunded’ research time under £30m cuts - Research Professional News
University tells staff to reduce research activity without external funding, amid potential for 300 redundancies
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January 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Newcastle shrinks ‘unfunded’ research time under £30m cuts.
University tells staff to reduce research activity without external funding, amid potential for 300 redundancies
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
University tells staff to reduce research activity without external funding, amid potential for 300 redundancies
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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Deadline extended until Jan 31!
📣CALL FOR PAPERS📣 Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025:
uclouvain.be/en/research-...
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Call for papers
To mark the end of a Hoover Seedfund collaborative project between the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and the Department of English at Northern Arizona ...
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January 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Deadline extended until Jan 31!
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We are delighted to announce that the applications for the free Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics 2025 are now open! Join us this summer at @lancasteruni.bsky.social to learn more about corpora and their applications.
16-20 June 2025
More information: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...
16-20 June 2025
More information: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...
January 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
We are delighted to announce that the applications for the free Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics 2025 are now open! Join us this summer at @lancasteruni.bsky.social to learn more about corpora and their applications.
16-20 June 2025
More information: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...
16-20 June 2025
More information: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...
Hornby Scholarships for international ELT professionals from middle- and low-income countries to study MEd TESOL at Exeter University.
For more information and guidance, you are welcome to attend a webinar 28 Jan 1200-1300 (UK time). Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
For more information and guidance, you are welcome to attend a webinar 28 Jan 1200-1300 (UK time). Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
January 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Hornby Scholarships for international ELT professionals from middle- and low-income countries to study MEd TESOL at Exeter University.
For more information and guidance, you are welcome to attend a webinar 28 Jan 1200-1300 (UK time). Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
For more information and guidance, you are welcome to attend a webinar 28 Jan 1200-1300 (UK time). Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Deadline extension: Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025: Final deadline 31 January 2024. Conference website: uclouvain.be/en/research-...
Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR)
This conference, to be held on 7 and 8 July 2025 in Louvain-la-Neuve, will mark the closing of the Hoover Seedfund project on "Learner Corpus Research and Register Variation", a collaborative initiati...
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January 18, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Deadline extension: Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025: Final deadline 31 January 2024. Conference website: uclouvain.be/en/research-...
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A.S. Hornby Trust:
The Trust is pleased to be offering 10 Hornby Scholarships to study for the Master’s degree in TESOL at the University of Exeter, UK, for the 2025-26 academic year.
(deadline 26th Feb)
www.hornby-trust.org.uk/ma-tesol-sch...
The Trust is pleased to be offering 10 Hornby Scholarships to study for the Master’s degree in TESOL at the University of Exeter, UK, for the 2025-26 academic year.
(deadline 26th Feb)
www.hornby-trust.org.uk/ma-tesol-sch...
MEd TESOL Scholarships - Hornby Trust
www.hornby-trust.org.uk
January 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A.S. Hornby Trust:
The Trust is pleased to be offering 10 Hornby Scholarships to study for the Master’s degree in TESOL at the University of Exeter, UK, for the 2025-26 academic year.
(deadline 26th Feb)
www.hornby-trust.org.uk/ma-tesol-sch...
The Trust is pleased to be offering 10 Hornby Scholarships to study for the Master’s degree in TESOL at the University of Exeter, UK, for the 2025-26 academic year.
(deadline 26th Feb)
www.hornby-trust.org.uk/ma-tesol-sch...
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Both training course & symposium are *free* to attend!
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Join us for the Reading Concordances Symposium and Training Day in Erlangen, 19-21 March 2025!
We're offering a one-day course on concordance analysis and a two-day event with invited speakers and a poster session.
See here for more:
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We're offering a one-day course on concordance analysis and a two-day event with invited speakers and a poster session.
See here for more:
go.fau.de/1beba
@rc21project.bsky.social
January 14, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Both training course & symposium are *free* to attend!
Help us spread the word!
#digitalhumanities #corpuslinguistics #concordancetools
@lanthony.bsky.social @schtepf.bsky.social
@anteangaeile.bsky.social @proftaylor.bsky.social
@violawiegand.bsky.social
Help us spread the word!
#digitalhumanities #corpuslinguistics #concordancetools
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FreeTxt supports the analysis and visualisation of free-text data in both English and Welsh (e.g. data from surveys, questionnaires, feedback fora): freetxt.app
TestunRhydd/FreeTxt
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January 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
FreeTxt supports the analysis and visualisation of free-text data in both English and Welsh (e.g. data from surveys, questionnaires, feedback fora): freetxt.app
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One week left to submit abstracts / proposals for #CL2025!
📢 Call for Papers: Corpus Linguistics 2025 📢
#CL2025 • Birmingham, UK • Monday 30th June - Thursday 3rd July 2025
Submissions are open for paper presentations, poster presentations, thematic panels, and pre-conference workshops: www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-pap...
Submission deadline: 17th January
#CL2025 • Birmingham, UK • Monday 30th June - Thursday 3rd July 2025
Submissions are open for paper presentations, poster presentations, thematic panels, and pre-conference workshops: www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-pap...
Submission deadline: 17th January
CL2025 - Call for papers
Abstract submission is now open here
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January 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
One week left to submit abstracts / proposals for #CL2025!
Call for Papers: Applied Corpus Linguistics special issue on corpus research into children's writing.
For details, see phildurrant.net/special-issu...
If you are interested in contributing, please send a 300-word abstract to me ([email protected]) by 31 January.
For details, see phildurrant.net/special-issu...
If you are interested in contributing, please send a 300-word abstract to me ([email protected]) by 31 January.
January 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Call for Papers: Applied Corpus Linguistics special issue on corpus research into children's writing.
For details, see phildurrant.net/special-issu...
If you are interested in contributing, please send a 300-word abstract to me ([email protected]) by 31 January.
For details, see phildurrant.net/special-issu...
If you are interested in contributing, please send a 300-word abstract to me ([email protected]) by 31 January.
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Are you an #appliedlinguist #SLA looking to make a career move as Associate or Full Prof? A rare opening at a prestigious #RussellGroup university in the charming West Country, a gorgeous part of the UK-much more affordable than London & Oxbridge. Deadline: Feb. 2 jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
December 24, 2024 at 11:38 AM
Are you an #appliedlinguist #SLA looking to make a career move as Associate or Full Prof? A rare opening at a prestigious #RussellGroup university in the charming West Country, a gorgeous part of the UK-much more affordable than London & Oxbridge. Deadline: Feb. 2 jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Adjective + noun collocations in L2 spoken English. How robust is the role of proficiency?
A great addition to the literature on collocation use and L2 proficiency.
www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
A great addition to the literature on collocation use and L2 proficiency.
www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
Adjective + noun collocations in L2 spoken English | John Benjamins
Abstract
This study explores the development of L2 phraseological knowledge, focusing on the relationship between L2
proficiency and the use of adjective-noun combinations from the perspective of coll...
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December 13, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Adjective + noun collocations in L2 spoken English. How robust is the role of proficiency?
A great addition to the literature on collocation use and L2 proficiency.
www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
A great addition to the literature on collocation use and L2 proficiency.
www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
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📣CALL FOR PAPERS📣 Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025:
uclouvain.be/en/research-...
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Call for papers
To mark the end of a Hoover Seedfund collaborative project between the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and the Department of English at Northern Arizona ...
uclouvain.be
November 27, 2024 at 4:05 PM
📣CALL FOR PAPERS📣 Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025:
uclouvain.be/en/research-...
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