In Preparation of the CALPIU research Center (funding starts August 1, 2009), the CALPIU network will arrange a seminar on corpus design and collection on Friday, April 17, 9:00-13:00 at Roskilde University, Room 03.2.2 in Building 03.

About our future corpus:

"Within the multifaceted practice of a university we wish to examine four fields of practice, each of which represents a type of role relationship: The communicative practice and self-conception of the university as an “actor” in a multilingual world, Student-teacher relations, Student-student relations, and Student-Administrative staff interaction. Recordings of conversations within all four fields as well as other data material will be collected in a comprehensive electronic corpus which aims to be representative of the linguistic and cultural practices of the international university."

The data we hope to collect will consist of recordings and collections in the following languages:

"– Danish, both as the L1 of most students and the language of instruction in Danish universities since C18 (predominantly, and for a while exclusively)

– English as the international contact language and the second most important language of teaching besides Danish,

– other languages which play a (possibly diminishing) role in teaching and research dissemination, and

– the L1 of students that come to Denmark in larger cohorts (e.g. Chinese and several Central and Eastern European languages)."

For projects working outside Denmark, other languages can take the place of Danish, though.

If you want to read more, see:

Fabricius, Anne. (2008). When we build our corpus: Planning considerations for the future CALPIU Research Centre. In Hartmut Haberland, Janus Mortensen, Anne Fabricius, Bent Preisler, Karen Risager, Susanne Kjærbeck (eds.), Higher education in the global village. Roskilde: Department of Culture and Identity, Roskilde University. 175-182. ISBN 978-87-29024-14-5.

The Seminar will be chaired by Anne Fabricius and Johannes Wagner and will concentrate on two questions: What? and How?

We would like to see all 'stakeholders' in the CALPIU Center in Roskilde, and hope to be able to discuss the kind of data that their projects can contribute with and are dependent to be able to draw upon.

If you would like to attend, please contact the CALPIU Center Management by writing an email to calpiu@ruc.dk no later than 6 March 2009.