19.09.2019 Doctoral candidates at Department of English and American Studies win award for their presentations at international conference
Marburg doctoral candidates Tim Hoffmann und Steffen Schaub share the prize this year for the best presentation of a doctoral project at the international conference of the Learner Corpus Association.
The Learner Corpus Research Conference took place 12-14 September in Warsaw and drew researchers from all over the world, from the USA to Japan.
Hoffmann’s presentation on the topic “In search for a gold standard for error annotation: lexical errors” provides insight into his dissertation project on the analysis, evaluation and development of error annotation systems for learner language corpora. In his presentation titled “The longitudinal development of clausal and noun-phrasal complexity in German intermediate learners of English”, Schaub presented the results of his studies into the development of complexity in learner language. For their research, both doctoral candidates use the Marburg Corpus of Intermediate Learner English (MILE), which has been compiled and published under the direction of Prof. Dr. Rolf Kreyer (also the supervisor of both dissertation projects).