Date: Saturday 10th June, 13:00–15:30 (GMT, London)
Speaker:
Professor Yasunori Nishina (Professor at Kobe Gakuin University & Doshisha University, a visiting professor at Oxford University UK) <biography>
Participation: Online only (using Zoom)
Fee: Member £5, Non-member £10
Enrolment limit: 50
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Planned schedule: Following the seminar, there will be an optional social gathering on Zoom from 15:30

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<Seminar Overview>
This seminar will provide a historical overview of the benefits of corpora in language research and language education and introduce some of the case studies. The floor will also be given a hands-on opportunity to use several Japanese corpus search tools that are currently available free of charge, to see how useful and effective they are. In addition, the lecture will also provide an in-depth look at some of the standard linguistic features and teaching methods in corpus linguistics, such as Lexical Grammar, Discourse (Semantic) Prosody and Data Driven Learning, to make them useful for your daily Japanese language teaching and research.

He is currently a professor at Kobe Gakuin University (and Doshisha University) and a visiting professor at Oxford University, UK, after working as a joint researcher at Kyoto Prefectural University, a contract lecturer at Ritsumeikan University, a full-time lecturer at Meiji Gakuin University, a visiting exchange professor at Hope College in the USA and an associate professor at Kobe Gakuin University. He gained MA in Applied Translation, University of Exeter, UK, MPhil in Corpus Linguistics and Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham, UK. His publications include Parallel Corpus Linguistics (Kaitakusha), Frontiers of Linguistic Analysis (Kinseido), Frontiers of Applied Linguistics (Kinseido), Introduction to Global Communication Studies (Sanseido), Dictionary of Latest English Studies and Linguistics Terms (Kaitakusha), Comprehensive English Textbook with the Movie “Love Actually” (Shohakusha) and Hospitality Communication: Learning Omotenashi English in Practical Form (Sanshusha), Wisdom English-Japanese Dictionary, 3rd edition (Sanseido), Wisdom English-Japanese Dictionary, 4th edition (Sanseido), Daily Concise English-Japanese Dictionary, 9th edition (Sanseido), Evaluative Meanings and Disciplinary Values: A Corpus-Study of Adjective Patterns in Research Articles in Applied Linguistics and Business Studies (LAP), and many others.