Intergedi representation at the IVACS conference

 

Our three PhD candidates, Ana E. Sancho Ortiz, Paula Wood Borque and Luis Martínez-Kleiser, participated in the 11th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Biennial Conference, which took place at the University of Cambridge (UK) during the 16th and 17th of July 2024. IVACS is an international research centre and network that mainly focuses on the topics of corpus linguistics and applied linguistics, which were the focal points of this year’s conference.

On the first day, Paula Wood Borque presented a paper titled “Development of materials for the English as Foreign Language classroom: Compilation and analysis of a multimodal corpus”. In it, she presented her corpus CAMELLS and the multimodal analytical framework she uses to analyse the scenes from said corpus. You can find more information about her talk here.

Later that day, Luis Martínez-Kleiser presented a poster titled “Online dissemination of scientific content for educational purposes: recontextualising texts for teenage audiences”. In his poster, he shared the results obtained from the analysis of different recontextualisation strategies used in 10 texts in the “Science Journal for Teens” site.  Find out more information about Luis’ poster here.

The next day Ana E. Sancho Ortiz presented her paper, “Methodological challenges in working with digitally mediated data: The compilation of the SciDis database”, in which she presented our SciDis project and focused on the methodological challenges faced during the compilation of our database. We are very proud to announce that Ana received one of the awards for the best presentations in the conference! For more information about her talk, click here.

This was a great opportunity for our PhD candidates to share their research in a specialised event and to foster relationships with other researchers in the field. We are looking forward to the next edition!