Presentation

The DOC project (Didactics, Oral, Corpus) aims to create a set of multilingual corpora for didactic purposes. It brings together data from verbal interactions in several languages (French, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian), accessible via the Ortolang platform (https://www.ortolang.fr/market/corpora/doc-stl). The project is led by Juliette Delahaie and Emmanuelle Canut, within the STL laboratory (Savoirs, Textes, Langage), and relies on the expertise of researchers in France and abroad.

Objective

The DOC seminar aims to foster exchanges between researchers and education professionals around the use of oral corpora in linguistics and language teaching. It particularly contributes to developing collective reflection on the analysis of interactional practices in first languages, in connection with didactic and methodological issues. It also provides a space for discussions on language comparison, by examining linguistic operations across various social, cultural, and communicative contexts.

Three main themes are proposed, which may be addressed during one or more sessions throughout the year:

Theme 1: Use of corpora for language didactics. This theme addresses the challenges related to the selection, use, and adaptation of corpora—whether based on native speakers or second language learners—for classroom use. Particular attention is paid to the benefits and limitations of corpora in developing linguistic and cultural competencies.

Theme 2: Methodology and tools for oral corpora. This theme focuses on the methodologies for creating and using oral corpora, in line with the specificities of the intended research (research questions, target audience, languages studied, etc.).

Theme 3: Comparative approaches in the study of oral interaction corpora. This theme explores comparative perspectives applied to the analysis of oral interactions. This approach can be deployed at two levels: interlinguistic and intralinguistic. The former allows exploration of linguistic universals, cultural specificities, and contact phenomena; the latter highlights variations (diaphasic, diatopic, diastratic, diageneric, diachronic) within a single language.

In addition to these scientific objectives, the seminar also aims to increase the visibility of the DOC project within the academic community, to promote exchanges between senior and early-career researchers, and to encourage the emergence of interdisciplinary collaborations around the study of oral corpora.

Organizers 2025–2026

BENACHI Camilo Restrepo, camilo.restrepo-benachi.etu@univ-lille.fr

CHEN Rou, chenroucecile@gmail.com

HU Huiyun, huiyun.hu@univ-lille.fr

Format

The seminar takes place once a month, on Thursdays from 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM, at the STL laboratory (Pont-de-Bois Campus, Villeneuve d’Ascq).

Sessions may be held in-person and/or online, depending on needs.

The seminar alternates between:

• Discussion and collaborative work sessions based on oral corpora (audio and/or video)

• Training sessions focused on a tool, a method of analysis, or a specific research practice.