The conference, organized under the aegis of the Learner Corpus Association, aims  to  be  a  showcase  for  the  latest  developments  in  the  field  and  will  feature  full  paper presentations, work in progress reports, poster presentations, software demos and a book exhibition.

The theme of LCR 2017 is "Widening the Scope of Learner Corpus Research".

Conference web site: lcr2017.eurac.edu

Conference Venue: European Academy Bozen/Bolzano – EURAC Research

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Philip Durrant (University of Exeter, United Kingdom)
Stefan Th. Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.)
Stefania Spina (Università per Stranieri Perugia, Italy)
The  keynote  speakers will  adress the theme  of LCR 2017  in their respective  lectures  on  L1 writing
development and Learner Corpus Research, quantitative methods in Learner Corpus Research, and
Learner Corpus Research and Italian as L2. We welcome papers that address all aspects of Learner
Corpus Research, in particular the following ones:

* Corpora as pedagogical resources
* Corpus‐based transfer studies
* Data mining and other explorative approaches to learner corpora
* English as a Lingua Franca
* Error detection and correction of learner language
* Extracting language features from learner corpora
* Innovative annotations in learner corpora
* Language for academic/specific purposes
* Learner varieties
* Learner corpora for less commonly taught languages
* Learner Corpus Research and the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)
* Learner Corpus Research and Natural Language Processing
* Links between Learner Corpus Research and other research methodologies (e.g. experimental methods)
* Search engines for learner corpora
* Statistical methods in learner corpus studies
* Task and learner variables