VAR4LCR: Register and Task Variation in Learner Corpus Research

VAR4LCR 2025 is a focused scholarly workshop dedicated to the study of register and task variation within learner corpus research, sitting at the intersection of corpus linguistics, applied linguistics, and second language acquisition. The program examines how different communicative tasks, registers, and genres shape the language produced by learners, drawing on both quantitative corpus methods and qualitative discourse analysis to shed light on academic writing, register variation, and the progression of language learning across proficiency levels.

The workshop attracts corpus linguists, applied linguists, SLA researchers, and language teachers who work with learner language data and want to understand how task design and register demands influence learner output. Its focused scope makes it an ideal venue for presenting specialized empirical studies, exchanging methodological innovations in corpus construction and annotation, and building a community of researchers committed to rigorous data-driven approaches to language learning research.

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