We are happy to inform you that Dr. Paul Thompson, Reader in Applied Corpus Linguistics Deputy Director, Centre for Corpus Research, University of Birmingham, will be speaking at ELT Summit 2021. He will deliver a plenary session on ‘Corpora in language teaching and teaching about language‘.
About Paul Thompson
Paul Thompson is acting director of the Centre for Corpus Research, and a Reader in Applied Corpus Linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK. He was a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2009-2018, and recently founded a new journal, Applied Corpus Linguistics, with Eric Friginal. He has been active in corpus development, training and research since the late nineties, and has worked on a number of projects that explore academic discourses. He is interested in the potential for using corpus evidence in learning about language, and has supervised several doctoral projects on uses of corpora in language teaching. From 2013 to 2015 he led an ESRC-funded project on ‘Investigating Interdisciplinary Research Discourse’ and he co-authored with Susan Hunston ‘Interdisciplinary Research Discourse: Corpus investigations into environment journals’ (published in 2019 by Elsevier).
