Language Learning is inviting proposals for a 2027 special issue from prospective guest editors.
We welcome proposals that will engage Language Learning鈥檚 international readership and advance scholarly understanding of language learning. We are especially interested in special issue themes that highlight work in areas of inquiry, theoretical approaches, and methodological tools in language learning that are underrepresented and/or represent cutting-edge developments in the wider interdiscipli
The GReLA research group and the Departament de Filologia Anglesa i German铆stica at Universitat Aut貌noma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain is pleased to announce the 2nd ELLRA (Early Language Learning Research Association) Conference to be held at the UAB from 3 to 5 June 2026 https://webs.uab.cat/ellra-conference-2026/
The theme of the conference is Exploring Multilingualism and Diversity in Formal Early Language Learning Contexts, and we invite proposals for oral presentations, posters and organize
AG7 of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society: https://www.uni-trier.de/universitaet/fachbereiche-faecher/fachbereich-ii/forschung-und-zentren/dgfs2026
Organized by: Jana H盲ussler (Uni Bielefeld), Thomas Weskott (Uni G枚ttingen), Sarah Zobel (Uni Hannover / HU Berlin)
Linguistic acceptability is one of the major tools to detect patterns in language: our intuitions about whether a sentence is "good" or "bad" are a source of evidence that is readily accessible and easy to communica
We are delighted to announce that the 4th International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics will take place online from October 17 to 19, 2025. This year鈥檚 theme, 鈥淒iscourse Pragmatics, Online Interaction, and the Age of AI,鈥� responds to the urgent need to understand how digital technologies and algorithmic mediation are reshaping the conditions of human communication in profound ways.
As digital platforms, social media, and AI-driven interfaces become central to everyday interaction, question
The GReLA research group and the Departament de Filologia Anglesa i German铆stica at Universitat Aut貌noma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain is pleased to announce the 2nd ELLRA (Early Language Learning Research Association) Conference to be held at the UAB from 3 to 5 June 2026 https://webs.uab.cat/ellra-conference-2026/
The theme of the conference is Exploring Multilingualism and Diversity in Formal Early Language Learning Contexts, and we invite proposals for oral presentations, posters and organize
AG7 of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society: https://www.uni-trier.de/universitaet/fachbereiche-faecher/fachbereich-ii/forschung-und-zentren/dgfs2026
Organized by: Jana H盲ussler (Uni Bielefeld), Thomas Weskott (Uni G枚ttingen), Sarah Zobel (Uni Hannover / HU Berlin)
Linguistic acceptability is one of the major tools to detect patterns in language: our intuitions about whether a sentence is "good" or "bad" are a source of evidence that is readily accessible and easy to communica
We are delighted to announce that the 4th International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics will take place online from October 17 to 19, 2025. This year鈥檚 theme, 鈥淒iscourse Pragmatics, Online Interaction, and the Age of AI,鈥� responds to the urgent need to understand how digital technologies and algorithmic mediation are reshaping the conditions of human communication in profound ways.
As digital platforms, social media, and AI-driven interfaces become central to everyday interaction, question
2025. iii, 116 pp.
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Redefining faculty preparedness in English-medium instruction: Impact from an innovative professional development initiative in Taiwan
Meredith Doran, Jacob Rieker & Yunhua Yang
pp.鈥�145鈥�165
Importance marking in EMI and L1 lectures: A case of similarities and idiolect
Katrien L.鈥疊. Deroey & Jane Helen Johnson
pp.鈥�166鈥�188
Ideological tensions in identity construction of Chinese medical teachers and students in EMI
Paiwei Qin, Mai
2025. iii, 169 pp.
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International players鈥� perceptions of localization in their gameplay experiences: An explorative study with Steam user game reviews
Hao Hsu & Minako O鈥橦agan
pp.鈥�1鈥�24
Narratives in film title translation: A study of films by Zhang Yimou and Jia Zhangke
Qi Zhang & Caitr铆ona Osborne
pp.鈥�25鈥�49
Agile working and job satisfaction for localization language agents
Madiha Kassawat
pp.鈥�50鈥�73
Exploring the ethical perspectives of transl
2025. iii, 258 pp.
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Anticausativization in Gyalrongic languages
Jesse P. Gates
pp.鈥�243鈥�288
Between VO and OV in Arabic and Aramaic: A corpus-based typology with implications for word-order shifts
Paul M. Noorlander, Dorota Molin & Geoffrey Haig
pp.鈥�289鈥�336
The historical development of asymmetries: The case of directional demonstratives in Germanic
Ekkehard Koenig
pp.鈥�337鈥�375
Placeholders and interjective hesitators: A crosslinguistic and functi
2025. iii, 102 pp.
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From stay-abroad research to SLA theory: A focus on variable structures and phraseological units
Amanda Edmonds & Aarnes Gudmestad
pp.鈥�155鈥�179
Adolescents abroad and bullying: When the rapid social integration of a Swiss high school student in England becomes a double鈥慹dged sword
Murielle Ferry-Meystre
pp.鈥�180鈥�202
Second language learners鈥� experiences communicating in Arabic with native speakers during a study abroad program: Chal
2024. iii, 185 pp.
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Changes in the topical structure of explanations are related to explainees鈥� multimodal behaviour
Stefan Lazarov, Kai Biermeier & Angela Grimminger
pp.鈥�257鈥�280
Designing and assessing a vocalization-based behavior coding protocol to analyze human-robot interaction in the wild
Xela Indurkhya & Gentiane Venture
pp.鈥�281鈥�312
What do we mean by synchrony in human鈥搑obot interaction research? Towards a unifying framework
Melanie Jouaiti,
2025. iii, 139 pp.
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Unveiling the strengths and weaknesses of technology in interpreter training: A literature survey
Venus Chan
pp.鈥�1鈥�26
Threads of control: Understanding sources of censorial power in translation
Behrouz Karoubi
pp.鈥�27鈥�42
Online interpreter training experiences examined through the eyes of trainees and trainers: A case study of a short course for police interpreters in South Korea
Jieun Lee
pp.鈥�43鈥�63
A preliminary exploration
SUMMARY
Piller et al.鈥檚 Life in a New Language is a comprehensive ethnographic exploration of migrants鈥� lived experiences in moving to Australia, focusing on the struggles, hardships and occasional successes involved in adapting to life in a new country. The book offers a human-centred alternative to the predominance of quantitative research on migration, foregrounding social and emotional dimensions that often remain obscured in statistical accounts. Ultimately, the book is a call to stop se
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Written by Colin J. Flynn, Adult Minority Language Learning: Motivation, Identity and Target Variety contains an introduction chapter, eight chapters of research content, references, appendices, and author and subject indexes. Employing a mixed-method research, Flynn presents a case study of Irish language adult learners acquiring various traditional (Gaeltacht) and non-traditional (second language) varieties of the language. Specifically, the author explores the relationship between
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鈥淔ormal approaches to complexity in heritage language grammars鈥� questions the notion of complex
Focus: Albanian language classes structured by proficiency level; Lectures on Albanian history, geography, and culture; Socio-cultural activities such as museum visits and trips to various cities across Albania.
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The Department of Linguistics of University of Tirana (Albania) is pleased to inform all interested parties that the summer school 鈥淎lbanian Language Course for Foreigners鈥� will be held from September 1鈥�30, 2025.
This intensive course is designed for students and r
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Templatic morphology is characterised by morphological exponents that are either expressed by an invariant prosodic shape or by affixes that require a templatic form of the base to which they attach. The clearest examples can be found in Afroasiatic languages, as well as in some languages of California, e.g., Palestinian Arabic suxn 鈥榟ot鈥�, b-yusxun 鈥榠t becomes hot鈥�, saxxan 鈥榟e heated (sth.) up鈥�, sxu藧ne 鈥榝ever鈥�, and Sierra Miwok hallik-ihh扫蕯 鈥榟e used to hunt鈥�, halik-mehn扫hakt酞e蕯 鈥業 was hunting on
OASIS 5 (Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 5) will take place at the University of Edinburgh in the UK, December 3-5, 2025.
The OASIS conference series aims to promote conversation across different disciplines that interface with semantics, using ontological questions as shared reference points. The broad questions in the background are these:
- What basic ontological building blocks do we use to talk and think about the world?
- How do these building blocks get comb