Research on young second language (L2) learners, as well as young learner (inter-)language specifically, has gained increasing attention in recent years, driven by calls for greater diversity and representativeness in both Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Learner Corpus Research (LCR). Although a growing number of learner corpora are available (Fernández & Davis, 2021), corpora representing young learner language, broadly defined, remain comparatively rare. While empirical findings from you

Since 2018, the UNED Language and Society Research Group has organised a series of biennial international conferences that have become a consolidated forum for scholarly debate on bilingualism and bilingual education. Building on previous editions that explored bilingualism and interculturality (2018), the relationship between bilingualism and migration (2020), the interplay between bilingualism, bilingual education, and their social contexts (2022), and how bilingualism and bilingual education

2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics 8th edition 07-09 May 2026 -- entirely online! Abstract Submission Deadline 23 March 2026, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time) The 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator is an entirely online event (**with free registration**). This event offers an opportunity for scholars in historical sociolinguistics from all over the world to participate in discussions of cutting-edge research without the limitations

Call for Papers: Each year, the Bonn Applied English Linguistics group hosts a conference aimed specifically at postgraduate, PhD, and post-doc students. This conference allows young linguists to showcase their empirical research projects in all areas of Applied Linguistics broadly defined. BAELc15 is a great opportunity to learn from each other, get feedback on your work and network with other researchers in the field. This year’s conference will focus on learner corpora, while maintainin

Since 2018, the UNED Language and Society Research Group has organised a series of biennial international conferences that have become a consolidated forum for scholarly debate on bilingualism and bilingual education. Building on previous editions that explored bilingualism and interculturality (2018), the relationship between bilingualism and migration (2020), the interplay between bilingualism, bilingual education, and their social contexts (2022), and how bilingualism and bilingual education

2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics 8th edition 07-09 May 2026 -- entirely online! Abstract Submission Deadline 23 March 2026, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time) The 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator is an entirely online event (**with free registration**). This event offers an opportunity for scholars in historical sociolinguistics from all over the world to participate in discussions of cutting-edge research without the limitations

We are pleased to announce that the International Congress of the International Society for Applied Linguistics (ISAPL) 2026 will take place in person at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP), Portugal, from June 11 to 13, 2026. As part of the scientific programme, the ISAPL Program Committee is now accepting, until February 25 proposals for Organized Symposia, to be held during the Congress. Organized symposia offer an excellent opportunity for individual re

We are pleased to announce that the 15th Workshop Formal Linguistics will be held at Federal University of Minas Gerais from May 25 to May 29. In its fifteenth edition, Workshop on Formal Linguistics is by now a consolidated event on Theoretical Linguistics in Brazil and abroad. In this edition, we aim this event to continue being a forum of discussion for high quality research in progress about natural languages using formal frameworks. This edition will also feature a special section abou

We are pleased to announce that the International Congress of the International Society for Applied Linguistics (ISAPL) 2026 will take place in person at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP), Portugal, from June 11 to 13, 2026. As part of the scientific programme, the ISAPL Program Committee is now accepting, until February 25 proposals for Organized Symposia, to be held during the Congress. Organized symposia offer an excellent opportunity for individual re

Topic Editors: Professor V. Makarova (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) Dr. V. Warditz (University of Cologne, Germany). The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many aspects of human life, including language use and interaction dynamics in vulnerable minority communities. Yet little research has examined its sociolinguistic consequences (e.g., Gao, 2022; Zaini et al., 2025), and existing findings remain inconclusive. Temporary closures of bilingual and heritage-language schools, social-distanc

We are pleased to announce that the 15th Workshop Formal Linguistics will be held at Federal University of Minas Gerais from May 25 to May 29. In its fifteenth edition, Workshop on Formal Linguistics is by now a consolidated event on Theoretical Linguistics in Brazil and abroad. In this edition, we aim this event to continue being a forum of discussion for high quality research in progress about natural languages using formal frameworks. This edition will also feature a special section abou

Institution/Organization: Northern Arizona University (NAU), Department of Global Languages and Cultures (GLC) Web Address: https://catalog.nau.edu/Catalog/details?plan=TSPAMAT Level: Master of Arts Specialty Areas: Teaching Spanish Required Language(s): Spanish (spa) Description: The Department of Global Languages and Cultures at Northern Arizona University is looking for highly motivated candidates for admission to the MAT Spanish program (https://legacy.nau.edu/global-languages/grad

Description: ProdiG Plus Fellow Lecturer - South Asian And South Asian American Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies Location: Stony Brook, NY Open Date: Feb 16, 2026 Deadline: Mar 20, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Description: The Department of Asian and Asian American Studies (AAAS) at Stony Brook University, New York, invites applications for a lecturer position in South Asian and South Asian American Studies, offered throug

Description: Boston College seeks a Visiting Assistant Professor in Linguistics for the academic year 2026–2027, renewable for a second year. This is a full-time, non-tenure-track appointment in Linguistics, an academic unit housed within the Department of Eastern, Slavic, and German Studies. The position entails a 2/3 teaching load, beginning July 1, 2026. Courses to be taught include: - A single-semester introduction to Linguistics, our gateway course into the Linguistics major and m

Focus: As a general rule, courses will be open to everyone of all education levels, though, for some courses, certain background knowledge is preferred. Please click on Course Information and Requirements to learn more. This summer school will be of interest to those in the fields of Historical Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Palaeography, Religious Studies, Buddhist Studies, (Asian) History, and Ancient Literature. The instructors will include scholars both from T

In this newsletter: LDC membership discounts expire March 2 Spring 2026 data scholarship recipient New publications: 2022 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation Test and Development Sets KAIROS Schema Learning Background Source Data LORELEI Russian Representative Language Pack ________________________________________ LDC membership discounts expire March 2 Time is running out to save on 2026 membership fees. Renew your LDC membership, rejoin the Consortium, or become a new member

Call for Papers: ALAPP aims to bring together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, especially language and communication research and professional domains (e.g., business, organization studies, education, banking, health care, therapy, journalism, law, social care and welfare, immigration and border control, police work, translation and interpreting) to share ideas and discuss innovations and interventions. Plenary Speakers: Claire Kramsch, University of California Berkeley,

Special Issue: The Language of Conflict Contemporary societies have to deal with conflict and its linguistic management from a variety of perspectives and domains, from journalistic prose to political communication, from social media dialogue to court trials. The umbrella-term “language of conflict” can describe the language of war, which can be analysed not only as the language used in military environments (Siegel et al. 2024), but also as the narration of war in journalism (Abbadi et al.

Final Call for Papers: The submission deadline for SALA-40 has been extended to Feb. 27, 2026. The central theme of this conference is Creative Interpretation of Variability, pertaining to the enrichment of intrinsic variation found in languages. We especially encourage submissions pertaining to this theme. We also invite submissions on any aspect of South Asian languages and Linguistics. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest is as follows: - Comparative and typological studies

Across cultures, historical periods, and media, islands have functioned as privileged sites of myth-making and imagination. Often perceived as bounded worlds, islands have generated narratives of origin and apocalypse, utopia and dystopia, exile and belonging, isolation and connection. From ancient mythologies to contemporary cultural production, from oral traditions to visual and digital media, and from colonial imaginaries to ecological discourses, islands have operated as narrative laboratori