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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;background-color:transparent"><b>The
Third and Last Call for Individual Presentation Proposals (Abstracts)
for 2027 International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB 16). Submission
deadline: October 1, 2026</b></span></div><div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">The
International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB 16), to be held in
Saskatoon, Canada, on June 14-18, 2027, is pleased to announce the Third
and Final Call for Individual Presentations Proposals (an abstract of a
presentation that can be single authored or co-authored. The theme of
ISB 16 is “Languages in Academia and in Communities”. ISB is the leading
international conference in the field of bi/multilingualism. The
five-day program will cover a broad range of topics, including bilingual
communication, language and cognition, child language development,
language education, health communication, heritage and immigrant
languages, Indigenous languages, translation and interpreting,
neurolinguistics, minority and regional languages, psycholinguistics,
and sociolinguistics.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">All
abstract submissions should be anonymous. Please remove any information
from the body of your abstract that could identify its author(s).
Sufficient detail on the theory, the research methods and results should
be provided to enable reviewers to evaluate the scholarly merit of the
proposal. Abstracts, including references, must not exceed 400 words.
References, if included, should be formatted in APA 7th style. Each
individual may submit a maximum of three individual proposals as the
first (or sole) author. There is no limit on the number of co-authored
presentations, provided that the individual is not the first author.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">The
available presentation formats are: an oral presentation (20 min with
Q/A) and a poster (printed). To accommodate participants who may require
a visa to enter Canada but are unable to obtain it on time, a limited
number (50) of online presentation slots will also be available.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">Proposals
should be uploaded through the ISB 16 individual submission portal
Oxford Abstracts (you need to create a profile first) by October 1,
2026.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">Submit your proposal by clicking here: <a href="https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/82075/submitter" target="_blank">https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/82075/submitter</a></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">Notification of acceptance will be sent in early January 2027.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">Additional conference information will be posted as it becomes available on the conference website <a href="https://conferences.usask.ca/isb16/" target="_blank">https://conferences.usask.ca/isb16/</a> </p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">For questions, please contact <a href="mailto:isb16sask@gmail.com" target="_blank">isb16sask@gmail.com</a></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">We look forward to your proposals.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">Jose Arias | ISB 16 Secretary</p></div>
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