08:45 – 09:15        Registration

09:15 – 09:30        Introduction Prof. Bruna Di Sabato

09:30 – 10:15        Prof. Anne O’Keeffe – “The Importance of Corpus Based Materials”

10:15 – 11:00        Prof. Annette Capel – “Making sense of words: the English Profile wordlist project”

11:00 – 11:30        Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:15        Prof. Anne O’Keeffe – “Using a Corpus to design grammar materials”

12:15 – 13:00        Prof. Annette Capel – “Words that really matter: improving written performance

                            by effective use of vocabulary”

13:00                    Certificates

Annette Capel has been involved in the Cambridge ESOL exams as an item writer and examiner since 1990. She has written textbooks for all five levels of the exams and dedicates much of her time to researching the Cambridge Learner Corpus (a 30 million word electronic collection of candidates’ scripts) for various writing projects. Her particular interests in ELT are testing and corpus lexicography, She holds an MA in Applied Linguistics and a Second MA in Italian Studies. Annette Capel is jointly sponsored by Cambridge University Press and Cambridge ESOL.

Anne O’Keeffe is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English Language and Literature, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. She has eighteen years’ experience as a teacher of English, teacher trainer and lecturer in Applied Linguistics. She is also an author with Cambridge University Press. She is currently working on grammar materials for Cambridge. She is an expert in corpus linguistics and corpus-based materials. In 2007, she published From Corpus to Classroom: language use and language teaching, with Ronald Carter and Michael McCarthy,(Cambridge University Press). Other books she has published are Investigating Media Discourse (2006, Routledge) and The Vocabulary Matrix (2009, Heinle). She has published a number of papers in edited volumes and international journals including, TESOL Quarterly, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Language Awareness and she has guest edited the journal Language Awareness and the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics.