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electronically.\nKeynote Speakers\nChallenges of doing corpus linguistics in Africa\nAlexandra Esimaje\nLanguage research has become of pre-eminent importance now than it was decades ago when the relevance of language to society was less discernible. There are many societal problems whose origin bother on language whether directly or indirectly. The necessity of resolving such problems has put substantial burden on the conventional and introspective methods of language research. Corpus linguistics seems to be solving a great part of this problem by presenting itself as an alternative method of linguistic investigation; offering new perspectives on language related issues, new ways of engagements and producing significant results. Since its inception in the early 1990s, its effect has been nothing but phenomenal because it has enabled investigations at depths and speeds only imagined before now and its outcomes have proved themselves outstanding. This is why the corpus method has continued to hold sway in language academies in most parts of the global North where it originated. In those places, there are many established corpora which are relatively easily accessible, many software exist that are fairly commonly known and used by linguists across universities, and a great number of published outcomes of corpus research are found to be in application in many contexts, whether directly in the classrooms or applied in the real world.\nThis is not the case in the global South, especially in many parts of Africa, where corpus linguistics remains largely unknown and the knowledge it provides even more largely untapped. Given that online technologies such as the Internet have made considerable knowledge only a finger click away, the presumed unfamiliarity with corpus linguistics manifested by many language teachers/researchers in the South should be a valid concern for the global linguistic community. The state of corpus linguistics in Africa is therefore the prime interest of this address. It seeks to define and illustrate the extent of its knowledge, use, outcomes, and impact, and also to examine the challenges facing its growth as a field of study and adoption as a reliable method of linguistic enquiry. Through ethnographic surveys of corpus linguistics studies across the countries of: Nigeria and Ghana in West Africa; Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya in East Africa; Zimbabwe and South Africa in Southern Africa; and Cameroon in Central Africa, this paper provides some insights into the state of corpus research in Africa and reveals the challenges facing it. The conclusion that forces its way through is that in Africa, corpus linguistics may remain ‘relatively new’, not in terms of age nor in terms of its appropriateness but rather in terms of its feasibility or usability, due to the many limiting factors of underdevelopment and the management of higher education in the continent. This calls for collaborative interventions if the field is to be sustained and its impact globally recognized.\n\u000f\nCrossing Spaces in Learner Corpus Research\nSylviane Granger\nThe field of learner corpus research (LCR), which emerged in the late 1980s/early 1990s, aimed to add to corpus linguistics one variety that was not yet covered at the time, that of learner English, i.e. written and/or spoken data produced by foreign or second (L2) language learners. The objectives of this type of research were – and still are – to gain a better understanding of the process of learning a foreign or second language and to design more efficient language teaching and testing tools and methods. 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