Sylvie De Cock
SSH/FIAL Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Letters (FIAL)
SSH/FIAL/ELAL Ecole de langues et lettres (ELAL)
SSH/ILC Institut Langage et Communication (IL&C)
SSH/ILC/PLIN Pôle de recherche en linguistique (PLIN)
De Cock, Sylvie ; De Meyere, Damien ; Degand, Liesbeth ; François, Thomas ; Gilquin, Gaëtanelle ; Granger, Sylviane ; Huang, Danqing ; Lefer, Marie-Aude ; Naets, Hubert ; Paquot, Magali ; Van Goethem, Kristel ; Watrin, Patrick ; Souza Wilkens, Rodrigo. CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Learner Corpora. Learner Corpus Research 2024 (University of Tartu, Estonia, du 26/09/2024 au 28/09/2024).
De Cock, Sylvie ; Gilquin, Gaëtanelle ; Granger, Sylviane ; Jadoulle, Pauline ; Paquot, Magali. Different registers, same learners: Towards a multi-register corpus of learner English. CLARIN Annual Conference 2024 (Barcelona, du 15/10/2024 au 17/10/2024).
De Cock, Sylvie. Review of William J. Crawford (ed.), Multiple Perspectives on Learner Interaction. The Corpus of Collaborative Oral Tasks. In: International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, Vol. 9, no. 2, p. 283-8 (2023).
De Cock, Sylvie. Defying the Q&A format in interviews? Exploring interrogatives in learner interviewee speech. BAAHE 2022 (ULiège, 02/12/2022).
De Cock, Sylvie. Do you love me: Interrogatives in learner speech in LINDSEI and in the Trinity Lancaster Corpus . 6th Learner Corpus Research Conference 2022 (Padova (Italie), du 22/09/2022 au 24/09/2022).
Baudoin, Noémie ; De Cock, Sylvie ; Degrave, Pauline ; Hamaide, Bertrand ; Hiligsmann, Philippe ; März, Virginie ; Van Drooghenbroeck, Sébastien. English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) : diversité des conceptions et des pratiques des enseignants universitaires. Congrès international d’Actualité de la Recherche en Éducation et en Formation (AREF) (Lausanne, du 13/09/2022 au 15/09/2022).
De Cock, Sylvie. Preferred ways of writing things in press releases. Boosting business communication teaching and learning material with DDL activities. Teaching and Language Corpora Conference - TaLC 2022 (University of Limerick and Mary Immaculate College, du 13/07/2022 au 16/07/2022).
Hiligsmann, Philippe ; Baudoin, Noémie ; De Cock, Sylvie ; Degrave, Pauline ; Hamaide, Bertrand ; März, Virginie ; Van Drooghenbroeck, Sébastien. Apprentissage et enseignement multilingues dans l’enseignement supérieur en Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (), 2022. 162 p.
De Cock, Sylvie ; Granger, Sylviane. Press releases vs business news: A lexical bundle approach. In: Text & Talk : an interdisciplinary journal of language, discourse & communication studies, Vol. 41, no. 5-6, p. 691-713 (2021). doi:10.1515/text-2020-0040.
De Cock, Sylvie. Review of Sandra Götz and Joybrato Mukherjee (eds.). Learner corpora and language teaching (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 92). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2019. iv+267 pp. ISBN 978 90 272 0236 9. In: ICAME Journal, Vol. 45, no.1, p. 215-222 (2021). doi:10.2478/icame-2021-0008.
De Cock, Sylvie ; Granger, Sylviane. Typical features of press releases vs business news reports in the lexical bundle spotlight. Corpus Linguistics International Conference 2021 (University of Limerick and Mary Immaculate College, du 13/07/2021 au 16/07/2021).
De Cock, Sylvie ; Granger, Sylviane. Uncovering the typical phraseology of press releases and business news reports using a lexical bundle approach. EUROPHRAS 2021 (UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, du 06/09/2021 au 09/09/2021).
De Cock, Sylvie. Foreign words in EFL learner interviewee speech: lending learners a productive fluency helping hand?. In: Degand, L., Gilquin, G., Meurant, L. & Simon A-C, Fluency and Disfluency across Languages and Language Varieties (Corpora and Language in Use), Presses universitaires de Louvain: Louvain-la-Neuve, 2019. 978-2-87558-769-5.
De Cock, Sylvie ; Hiligsmann, Philippe. A slew of activities to explore quantity approximation in Dutch, English and French Introducing the APPROXI_FEN (Français, English, Nederlands) project. EUROCALL 2019 (Louvain-la-Neuve, du 28/08/2019 au 31/08/2019).
De Cock, Sylvie. Positive evaluative adjectives in promotion-oriented texts: an exploratory study using a translation corpus. Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (5th edition) (Louvain-la-Neuve, du 12/09/2018 au 14/09/2018).
Boulton Alex ; De Cock, Sylvie. Dictionaries as aids for language learning. In: P. Hanks & G-M de Schryver, International Handbook of Modern Lexis and Lexicography, Springer: New York, 2017. 978-3-642-45369-4. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-45369-4_25-1..
De Cock, Sylvie. 'Speaking in tongues': EFL learners' use of 'foreign words' in informal interviews. LCR 2017 (Bolzano (Italy), du 04/10/2017 au 07/10/2017).
De Cock, Sylvie. Fluency and the use of foreign words in interviews with EFL learners. International Conference Fluency & Disfluency across Langages and Language Varieties (Université catholique de Louvain, du 15/02/2017 au 17/02/2017).
Lucaccini, Ester ; De Cock, Sylvie. Language and Business Engineering Students' Attitudes to English as a Lingua Franca in Wallonia. GABC2017 (University of Antwerp, du 22/05/2017 au 24/05/2017).
De Cock, Sylvie. Students' use of English during internships in the Brussels area – a pilot study. English Spoken: The position of English in Brussels (Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles, du 30/05/2017 au 30/05/2017).
De Cock, Sylvie. 'Are you going to ask me a question?' The discourse/pragmatic functions of interrogatives in learner interviewee speech. ESSE2016 (Galway, du 22/08/2016 au 26/11/2016).
De Cock, Sylvie. An exploration of the use of foreign words in interviews with EFL learners: a(n) (effective) communication strategy?. Third Learner Corpus Research Conference (Radboud University, Nijmegen , du 11/09/2015 au 13/09/2015).
De Cock, Sylvie. Foreign words in interviews with EFL learners: bridging lexical gaps?. ICAME36 (Trier Universität, du 27/05/2015 au 31/05/2015).
De Cock, Sylvie. Involvement profiles in interviews with native speakers and EFL learners: a corpus-based analysis. Third learner corpus research conference (Radboud University, Nijmegen, du 11/09/2015 au 13/09/2015).
Dumont, Amandine ; De Cock, Sylvie ; Gilquin, Gaëtanelle ; Granger, Sylviane. The French component of LINDSEI. LINDSEI workshop on the POS-tagging of spoken interlanguage (Nijmegen, 11/09/2015).
De Cock, Sylvie ; Tyne, Henry. Corpus d'apprenants et acquisition des langues. In: Recherches en didactique des langues et des cultures: Les cahiers de l'Acedele, Vol. 11, no.1, p. 137-167 (2014).
De Cock, Sylvie. Investigating typical features of spoken interactions in the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI). Attitudinal stance in the spotlight.. Corpus Linguistics Group (University of Oslo, 03/02/2014).
De Cock, Sylvie. ‘What else did we do’. Interrogatives in (learner) interviewee speech. ICAME35 (University of Nottingham (Great Britain), du 30/04/2014 au 04/05/2014).
Gilquin, Gaëtanelle ; De Cock, Sylvie. Errors and disfluencies in spoken corpora: Setting the scene. In: Gaëtanelle Gilquin & Sylvie De Cock, Errors and Disfluencies in Spoken Corpora (Benjamins Current Topics; 52), John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2013, 1-32. 978-9-0272-0271-0. doi:10.1075/ijcl.16.2.01gil.
De Cock, Sylvie ; Goossens, Diane. Quantity approximation in English and French business news reporting: More or less the same?. In: Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg, Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics. Studies in honour of Stig Johansson (Studies in Corpus Linguistics; 54), John Benjamins: Amsterdam, 2013, p. 139-156. 978 90 272 0359 5.
De Cock, Sylvie. Key skills and competencies in internship evaluation sheets. Global Advances in Business Communication - 5th Tricontinental Conference (Universiteit Antwerpen, du 29/05/2013 au 31/05/2013).
De Cock, Sylvie. Que nous montrent les corpus d’apprenants en termes de développement langagier?. Notions en Questions: Corpus (Université de Lorraine, Nancy (France), 13/11/2013).
Goossens, Diane ; De Cock, Sylvie. Around Numbers: Combinations of Approximators and Numbers in Business News Reporting and in Academic Business English. In: P. Heynderickx, S. Dieltjens, G. Jacobs, P. Gillaerts and E. de Groot., The Language Factor in International Business, Peter Lang: Bern, 2012. 978-3-0343-0687-4.
De Cock, Sylvie. Evaluative sentential relative clauses in native and learner speech and a corpus of textbook materials. TALC 2012 - 10th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference (Warsaw , du 11 juillet au 14 juillet).
De Cock, Sylvie. Intercultural communication in general business English textbooks. 11th European Conference of the Association of Business Communication (ABC Europe) (Nijmegen, Netherland, du 30/05/2012 au 02/06/2012).
De Cock, Sylvie ; Goossens, Diane. The treatment of quantity approximation in reference grammars and business English textbooks. TaLC10 (Warsaw, du 12/07/2012 au 14/07/2012).
Errors and Disfluencies in Spoken Corpora : Special issue of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 16.2. In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Vol. 16, no. 2, p. 158 pp. (2011).
Gilquin, Gaëtanelle ; De Cock, Sylvie. Errors and disfluencies in spoken corpora: Setting the scene. In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Vol. 16, no. 2, p. 141-172 (2011). doi:10.1075/ijcl.16.2.01gil.
De Cock, Sylvie. Preferred patterns of use of positive and negative evaluative adjectives in native and learner speech: an ELT perspective.. In: Frankenberg-Garcia, A. Flowerdew, L. Aston, G., New Trends in Corpora and Language Learning., Continuum: London, New York, 2011, p. 198-212.
Gilquin, Gaëtanelle ; Meunier, Fanny ; De Cock, Sylvie ; Paquot, Magali. Putting Corpora to good uses: A guided tour. In: Meunier F.; Gilquin G.; Paquot M., A Taste for Corpora. In Honour of Sylviane Granger (Studies in Corpus Linguistics; 45), John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam, Philadelphia, 2011, 1-6. 978-90-272-0350-2. doi:10.1075/scl.45.04coc.
De Cock, Sylvie ; Goossens, Diane. Approximating devices in English and French business news reporting: more or less the same?. International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) 31 (Oslo, du 01/06/2011 au 05/06/2011).
De Cock, Sylvie. Contracted forms in LINDSEI and LOCNEC. 20 years of Learner Corpus Research: looking back, moving ahead (Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), du 15/09/2011 au 17/09/2011).
De Cock, Sylvie. Spoken learner corpora and EFL teaching. In: Campoy, M.C. Bellés-Fortuno, B. Gea-Valor, M.L., Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching, Continuum: London, New York, 2010, 123-137.
De Cock, Sylvie ; Paquot, Magali. The monolingual learners' dictionary as a productive tool: the contribution of learner corpora. In: Campoy M. C.; Belles-Fortuno B.; Gea-Valor M.-L., Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching (Corpus and Discourse), Continuum: London, New York, 2010, 195-204.
Goossens, Diane ; De Cock, Sylvie ; Hiligsmann, Philippe. Around numbers: Collocational patterns involving numbers in Business English. Combinations of numbers and approximators.. Joint 10th Association for Business Communication (ABC) Europe convention and 2nd Global Advances in Business Communication (GABC) conference (Lessius University College, Antwerp, du 27/05/2010 au 29/05/2010).
De Cock, Sylvie ; Hiligsmann, Philippe. Master in multilingual communication. Looking back, looking ahead. Languages in Business Education (University College Brussels (Belgium), du 24/06/2010 au 26/06/2010).
Goossens, Diane ; De Cock, Sylvie ; Hiligsmann, Philippe. Quantification and approximation in business language. A contrastive approach (Dutch, English, French). Joint 10th Association for Business Communication (ABC) Europe convention and 2nd Global Advances in Business Communication (GABC) conference (Lessius University College, Antwerp, du 27/05/2010 au 29/05/2010).
De Cock, Sylvie ; Gilquin, Gaëtanelle. Errors and disfluencies in spoken corpora. Setting the scene. Errors and disfluencies in spoken corpora workshop (27/05/2009), 30th Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) (Lancaster University (UK), du 27/05/2009 au 31/05/2009).
De Cock, Sylvie ; Gilquin, Gaëtanelle ; Granger, Sylviane. Introducing LINDSEI, ICLE's talkative sister. 30th Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) (Lancaster University (UK), du 27/05/2009 au 31/05/2009).
De Cock, Sylvie. And yeah, it was really good! Positive stance in native and learner speech. Spoken Learner Corpus Colloquium (Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), du 24/01/2008 au 25/01/2008).
De Cock, Sylvie. Positive and negative evaluation in native and learner speech. Adjectives in the spotlight. 8th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference. In: 8th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference (TALC 2008), Associação de Estudos de Investigação Científica do ISLA-Lisboa: Lisboa, 2008, 106-110.
De Cock, Sylvie. To contract or not to contract: Contracted forms in native and learner speech and writing. BAAHE Conference 2008. From Theory to Application (and back again) (Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur (Belgium), 22/11/2008).
De Cock, Sylvie ; Gilquin, Gaëtanelle ; Granger, Sylviane ; Lefer, Marie-Aude ; Paquot, Magali ; Ricketts, Suzanne. Improve your writing skills. In: Rundell Michael, Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners (second edition), Macmillan Education: Oxford, 2007, IW1-IW50.
De Cock, Sylvie. Routinized Building Blocks in Native Speaker and Learner Speech: Clausal Sequences in the Spotlight. In: Campoy, M. C. Luzón, M. J., Spoken Corpora in Applied Linguistics, Peter Lang: Bern, 2007, p. 217-233.
De Cock, Sylvie. Contracted forms in native speaker and learner speech and writing. International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 28) (Stratford-upon-Avon (UK), du 23/05/2007 au 27/05/2007).
De Cock, Sylvie. Spoken learner corpora and EFL teaching. 1st International Conference on corpus-based approaches to ELT (Universitat Jaume I, Castelló (Spain), du 06/11/2007 au 07/11/2007). In: Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching, Continuum: London, New York, 2007, p. 123-137.
De Cock, Sylvie ; Paquot, Magali. The monolingual learners' dictionary as a productive tool: the contribution of learner corpora. 1st International Conference on corpus-based approaches to ELT (Universitat Jaume I, Castelló (Spain), du 06/11/2007 au 07/11/2007). In: Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching (Corpus and Discourse), Continuum: London, New York, 2007, p. 195-204.
De Cock, Sylvie. Getting down to Business: Monolingual Learners' Dictionaries and Business English. In: Corino, E. Marello, C. Onesti, C., Proceedings XII European Association for Lexicography (EURALEX) International Congress, Edizioni dell'Orso: Alessandria, 2006, p. 819-824.
De Cock, Sylvie. Getting down to Business: Monolingual Learners' Dictionaries and Business English. XII European Association for Lexicography (EURALEX) International Congress (Torino (Italy), du 06/09/2006 au 09/09/2006). In: Proceedings XII EURALEX International Congress, Edizioni dell'Orso: Alessandria, 2006, 819-824.
De Cock, Sylvie. Non-native Students and Users of Business English: in Search of the Ideal Dictionary. Language and the Business world - Dynamic strategies, dynamic synergy (Brussels (Belgium), du 17/11/2006 au 18/11/2006).
De Cock, Sylvie ; Granger, Sylviane. Computer Learner Corpora and Monolingual Learners' Dictionaries: the Perfect Match. In: Lexicographica, Vol. 20, p. 72-86 (2005).
De Cock, Sylvie. Learners and phrasal verbs. In: Rundell, M., Macmillan Phrasal Verbs Plus, Macmillan Education: Oxford, 2005.
De Cock, Sylvie. Linguistique de corpus et lexique. Séminaire des Sciences du Langage des Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis (Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis (SESLA), Brussels (Belgium), 17/11/2005).
De Cock, Sylvie. The routine aspects of speech and writing: a comparative corpus-driven study of native and non native performance data. The Many Faces of Phraseology: an interdisciplinary conference (Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), du 13/10/2005 au 15/10/2005).
De Cock, Sylvie. Preferred sequences of words in NS and NNS speech. In: BELL : Belgian journal of English language and literatures, p. 225-246 (2004).
De Cock, Sylvie ; Granger, Sylviane. High Frequency Words: The Bête Noire of Lexicographers and Learners Alike. A close look at the verb ‘make’ in five advanced learners’ dictionaries of English. In: Williams, G. Vessier, S., Proceedings of the Eleventh EURALEX International Congress. Lorient, 2004, p. 233-243.
De Cock, Sylvie ; Granger, Sylviane. High Frequency Words: the Bête Noire of Lexicographers and Learners Alike. A close look at the verb 'make' in five monolingual learners dictionaries of English. XI Euralex International Congress (Université de Bretagne-Sud: Lorient, 2004). In: Proceedings of the Eleventh EURALEX International Congress, 2004, p. 233-243.
De Cock, Sylvie. Phraseology, corpora and ELT. Application of Corpus Linguistics for EFL Education (School of Foreign Studies, South China Normal University, Guangzhou (Canton, China), du 11/10/2004 au 13/10/2004).
De Cock, Sylvie. Recurrent Sequences of Words in Native Speaker and Advanced Learner Speech and Writing. BAAHE Annual Conference (Universiteit Gent (Belgium), 22/11/2003).
De Cock, Sylvie. Pragmatic Prefabs in Learners’ Dictionaries. In: Braasch, A. Povlsen, C., Proceedings of the Tenth EURALEX International Congress, EURALEX 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 13-17 2002, Center for Sprogteknologi: Copenhagen, 2002, p. 471-481.
De Cock, Sylvie. Pragmatic Prefabs in Learners' Dictionaries. X EURALEX International Congress (EURALEX 2002) (Center for Spogteknologi, Copenhagen (Denmark), du 13/08/2002 au 17/08/2002). In: Proceedings of the Tenth EURALEX International Congress, EURALEX 2002, Center for Sprogteknologi: Copenhagen, 2002, p. 471-481.
De Cock, Sylvie. Recurrence and Phraseology in Learner and Native Corpora of Speech and Writing. ICAME 2001 - Future Challenges for Corpus Linguistics (Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), du 16/05/2001 au 20/05/2001).
De Cock, Sylvie. Book review. Patterns and meanings: Using Corpora for English Language Research and Teaching. In: System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, Vol. 29, no. 2, p. 303-306 (2000).
De Cock, Sylvie. Repetitive Phrasal Chunkiness and Advanced EFL Speech and Writing. In: Mair, C. Hundt, M., Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. Papers from the Twentieth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 20), Freiburg im Breisgau 1999, Rodopi: Amsterdam, Atlanta, 2000, 51-68.
De Cock, Sylvie. Recurrent word combinations and formulaic expressions in learner speech. Word combinations in language seminar (Lund University, English department (Sweden), 25/01/1999).
De Cock, Sylvie. Repetitive Phrasal Chunkiness and Advanced EFL Speech and Writing. 20th Annual Meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) - Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (Freiburg-im-Breisgau (Germany), du 26/05/1999 au 30/05/1999). In: Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. Papers from the Twentieth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 20), Rodopi: Amsterdam, Atlanta, 1999, p. 51-68.
De Cock, Sylvie. Word Combinations in Corpora of Learner Speech and ELT. Linguistics seminar (Göteborg University, English department (Sweden), 14/01/1999).
De Cock, Sylvie. A Recurrent Word Combination Approach to the Study of Formulae in the Speech of Native and Non-Native Speakers of English. In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Vol. 3, no. 1, p. 59-80 (1998). doi:10.1075/ijcl.3.1.04dec.
De Cock, Sylvie ; Granger, Sylviane ; Leech, Geoffrey ; McEnery, Tony. An automated approach to the phrasicon of EFL learners. In: Granger S., Learner English on Computer, Addison Wesley Longman: London and New York, 1998, p. 67-79.
De Cock, Sylvie. Corpora of Learner Speech and Writing and ELT. International Conference on Germanic and Baltic Linguistic Studies and Translation (University of Vilnius (Lithuania), du 22/04/1998 au 24/04/1998). In: Proceedings from the International Conference on Germanic and Baltic Linguistic Studies and Translation, Homo Liber: Vilnius, 1998, p. 56-66.