22 July 2011
Pearson recently attended the Corpus Linguistics Conference (CLC) from 20-22 July in Birmingham, England to present research drawn to validate their English language test, PTE Academic, as a measure of an international student’s ability to communicate in academic English for higher education opportunities and student visas.
CLC’s theme this year was: ‘Discourse and corpus linguistics’.
Presentations involving Pearson employees included:
- An Academic Collocation List – Kirsten Ackermann, Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray
- To Wordlist or Not to Wordlist: The Dilemma and Challenges for Second Language Learning and Testing – Yu-hua Chen
- The Pearson International Corpus of Academic English – Kirsten Ackermann, John H.A.L. de Jong, Adam Kilgarriff, David Tugwell
This is the CLC’s sixth conference in a series of international corpus linguistics conferences attended by research professionals from around the world.