Programme and registration here: https://canva.link/c1krqkbedmlymlt Plenary Speaker - Professor Phil Hubbard, Stanford University USA (Integrating Generative AI into Second Language Listening: Explorations in Professional Development) Professor Phil Hubbard, PhD, is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the Stanford University Language Center. Working in the field of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) since the early 1980s, he has published in the areas of CALL theory, research, methodology

Join us this coming week for the 2026 Research Incubator of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics! Consult the program for the largest and most thematically-rich Incubator line-up ever: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3420 Thirteen (13!!!) exciting international projects in Historical Sociolinguistics across four sessions, plus our annual Meta-Discussion panel! The event is fully online and free for NARNiHS members. Not yet a NARNiHS member? Membership is free:

Description: The second edition of the DM meets Nano workshop, to be held at the Masaryk University (Brno) on July 7-9, 2026, aims to bring together researchers working within Distributed Morphology and Nanosyntax, inviting them to share recent developments and findings in their respective frameworks and/or to examine (key) phenomena from a comparative perspective, highlighting both the similarities and differences between the two approaches. This way, the conference wants to encourage dialog

SUMMARY Alexis Michaud's Tone in Yongning Na: Lexical tones and morphotonology first appeared in 2017 and has since become a key reference for the description of the tone system of Yongning Na (Mosuo), a Tibeto-Burman language of Southwest China. This second edition (2025) retains the core of the original — based on a decade of fieldwork (2006–2016), a systematic treatment of lexical tones and morphotonological patterns, and an autosegmental analytical framework — while incorporating several

2026. iii, 99 pp. Table of Contents Articles Whose needs are met? Navigating tensions in academic language support at a Vietnamese EMI university Phuong-Anh Pham (Ellie) pp. 1–26 Israeli engineering students’ perceptions of EMI: Needs and learning strategies Brigitta R. Schvarcz, Rachel Wohlfarth & Marta Aguilar-Pérez pp. 27–50 Emerging research on the employability of English-medium instruction (EMI) graduates: A scoping review Oliver Hadingham & Zheng Zhang pp. 51–76

2026. iii, 177 pp. Table of Contents Articles An attempt to identify language-universal and language-specific patterns in the use of filled pauses and prolongations: Evidence from monolingual and bilingual speakers of Russian, Hebrew, and Mandarin Chinese Marianna Beradze, Tatiana Verkhovtceva, Xiaoli Sun, Kristina Zaides, Natalia Bogdanova-Beglarian & Natalia Meir pp. 1–44 The effects of interleaving and blocking practice on L2 contextualized grammar learning Nicolas Buhot & Qi

2026. vi, 228 pp. Table of Contents Introduction Investigating children’s irony comprehension: Current trends, challenges, and perspectives Julia Fuchs-Kreiß pp. 1–11 Articles Attitude understanding and irony development: Methodological challenges Ana Milosavljevic & Diana Mazzarella pp. 12–33 LEIRO: A novel approach to assess irony comprehension in children Julia Fuchs-Kreiß & Cornelia Schulze pp. 34–55 Training studies provide new insights about mechanisms of iro

CorporaExpert is a web-based corpus analysis workbench designed for linguists and discourse researchers. It combines classic corpus linguistics tools (KWIC, collocations, n-grams, lexical diversity) with NLP-powered analysis (lemmatization, named entity recognition, topic modelling, sentiment) — all from a single browser interface, with no programming required. Developed as part of PhD research in Applied Linguistics (Universitat Politècnica de València), with a focus on Critical Discourse A

We are thrilled to announce that the 5th International Conference on Language Attrition and Bilingualism (ICLA5) will take place from October 7–9, 2026, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). ICLA 5 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world to advance our understanding of language attrition and its effects on bilingual development. Continuing the tradition of previous ICLA editions, the conference provides an international forum for in-depth

Focus: Driven by the rapid expansion of large-scale data ecosystems and Large Language Models (LLMs), research across the humanities and social sciences is undergoing a significant transformation. Traditional disciplines, including linguistics, literature, history, and philology, are increasingly adopting computational technologies to develop innovative, data-driven methodologies. Central to this methodological shift is the development of reliable data infrastructure built upon well-annotated

Among our confirmed speakers: - Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Ruben Martins, Carnegie Mellon University - Gordon Pennycook, Cornell University - Ian Pratt-Hartmann, University of Manchester - Christian Lebiere, Carnegie Mellon University - Hannah Rohde, University of Edinburgh - Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo The program is organized around five key themes in the field: - Psychology of reasoning (May, 27-28) - Linguistics (May, 29) - Logic (June, 2-3)

We are thrilled to announce that the 5th International Conference on Language Attrition and Bilingualism (ICLA5) will take place from October 7–9, 2026, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). ICLA 5 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world to advance our understanding of language attrition and its effects on bilingual development. Continuing the tradition of previous ICLA editions, the conference provides an international forum for in-depth

19th AATT Graduate Student Conference Friday, May 8th, 9:15 AM - 3:30 PM (EST) All times are Eastern Standard Time (EST) Zoom Link for Conference Platform: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/82039656599 Meeting ID: 820 3965 6599 Password: AATTGrad26 Conference Program: 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM Opening & Welcoming Remarks: İlknur Lider, University of Pittsburgh 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Session I 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM Coffee Break 11:15 AM - 12:45 PM Session II 12:45 PM - 1:15 PM

2026. v, 172 pp. Introduction Creole onomastics: Names and naming in and for creole languages Philipp Krämer, Eeva Sippola & Rachel Selbach pp. 1–26 Articles Names for contact languages: An historical overview of the evolution of terms in the field of pidgin and creole languages Peter Bakker pp. 27–58 Terminologies in crisis: Challenges and insights from multipolar metalinguistics Carsten Levisen pp. 59–80 Naming creole varieties on the Cape Verde Islands and in Upper

2026. iii, 148 pp. Table of Contents Articles The rhetorical structure of conference opening remarks: A corpus-based move analysis Yinyin Wu pp. 1–36 Volunteer conference interpreting: Its possible benefits and place in the training journey towards professional interpreting Fanny Chouc pp. 37–58 Framing the political: Paratextual interventions and the ideological shaping in the English translations of Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Buru Quartet Susi Septaviana Rakhmawati & Riccar

19th AATT Graduate Student Conference Friday, May 8th, 9:15 AM - 3:30 PM (EST) All times are Eastern Standard Time (EST) Zoom Link for Conference Platform: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/82039656599 Meeting ID: 820 3965 6599 Password: AATTGrad26 Conference Program: 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM Opening & Welcoming Remarks: İlknur Lider, University of Pittsburgh 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Session I 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM Coffee Break 11:15 AM - 12:45 PM Session II 12:45 PM - 1:15 PM

Topic page: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/80156/beyond-diagnostic-silos-specific-learning-difficulties-and-developmental-language-disorder-across-dsm-5-tr-and-icd-11 Background: When a child struggles to read, write, or learn mathematics, the role of language is too often overlooked. Specific learning difficulties remain among the most discussed yet inconsistently conceptualised neurodevelopmental conditions in education and clinical practice. In DSM-5-TR, Specific Learning D

Call for Papers: The second International Conference on Globalisation/Deglobalisation in Languages, Education, Culture and Communication (GLECC2026) is going to be held 28-30 July 2026, Manchester, UK. The past two decades have witnessed remarkable advancements in the studies into Education, Second and Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, Cultural Studies, and Communication. This growth, evident in both the number of active researchers and the volume of scholarly throughput and

Call for Papers: The research group Pragmatics. Discourse. Cognition (PraDiC), from the Centre for Humanistic Studies of the University of Minho (CEHUM), will organize an in-person international congress on Everyday Discourses on July 9–10, 2026. Everyday life is fundamentally made up of discourses. As beings of language, discourse sustains social experience. It encompasses varied ways of expression—oral, written, imagetic, and multimodal—typically formed through brief interactions that ar

Host: The Language Centre at the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences Location: 61 Kase St, Tallinn, Estonia Format: On-site (preferred) & online in English The field of Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) is undergoing a profound transformation. Shifting workplace dynamics, technological leaps, and the rise of generative AI are driving this change, bringing us to a pivotal crossroads in the way we teach and learn professional languages. We invite researchers, practitioners, and