36.3859, Calls: Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (Czech Republic)

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Subject: 36.3859, Calls: Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (Czech Republic)

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Date: 13-Dec-2025
From: Tomáš Gráf [tomas.graf at ff.cuni.cz]
Subject: Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026

Full Title: Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026
Short Title: LCR 2026

Date: 17-Sep-2026 - 19-Sep-2026
Location: Praha 5 - Košíře, Czech Republic
Contact Person: Tomáš Gráf
Meeting Email: lcr2026 at ff.cuni.cz
Web Site: https://lcr2026.ff.cuni.cz

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition

Call Deadline: 16-Jan-2026

Call for Papers:
The 8th Learner Corpus Research Conference to be held in Prague 16–19
September, 2026.
Organizers: Tomáš Gráf, Barbora Bulantová, Kryštof Buchal, Alexandr
Rosen, Radek Skarnitzl, Lanfen Huang, Kristián Centek, Daniela
Marková, Iva Hubáčková
Key Dates:
Submission deadline: 16 January 2026
Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2026
Conference dates: 17–19 September 2026
Pre-conference workshops and PhD programme: 16 September 2026
The Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026) will be held in
the beautiful and historically rich city of Prague on 16–19 September
2026. Organized biennially under the auspices of the Learner Corpus
Association, the upcoming conference is hosted by the Department of
Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. The event is
co-organized by two of its constituent units: the Department of
English Language and ELT Methodology and the Czech National Corpus.
The conference, titled Forging the Future of Learner Corpus Research,
reflects a dual awareness: of the field’s substantial legacy and of
the pressing need to embrace emerging technological and methodological
innovations. It also highlights the importance of identifying new
directions and developing fresh perspectives in learner corpus
studies.
The conference theme resonates with the extensive experience and
pioneering contributions of the Czech National Corpus, which has been
shaping standards in corpus linguistics for over three decades.
Moreover, the Faculty of Arts and its linguistics departments are
deeply rooted in the tradition of the Prague Linguistic Circle, and
they previously hosted the 38th ICAME conference in 2017.
We warmly encourage all participants to contribute actively to
discussions and to share their insights. We aim to foster a collegial
and collaborative environment conducive to the advancement of learner
corpus research. We look forward to welcoming you to Prague for a
stimulating and inspiring gathering of researchers in the field.
We welcome all contributions related to learner corpus research and
strongly encourage authors to explore new directions, challenge
existing paradigms, or apply innovative approaches to learner corpus
data. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
 - Language for Academic and Specific Purposes
 - Language Teaching, Assessment, and Testing
 - Learner Corpus-Based SLA Studies
 - Corpora as Pedagogical Resources
 - Multimodal Learner Corpora
 - Software Tools for Learner Corpus Analysis
 - Corpus-Based Translation Studies
 - English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI)
 - English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)
 - Data Mining and Exploratory Methods
 - Statistical and Quantitative Approaches
 - Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics
 - NLP Applications in Learner Corpus Research
 - Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency (CAF) Measures
Presentation Formats:
We invite submissions for the following formats:
 - Full paper (20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion)
 - Work in progress (WIP) report (10 minutes + 5 minutes discussion)
 - Corpus/Software demonstration
 - Poster presentation
 - Insight session (Insight sessions are intended primarily for PhD
students and/or early-career researchers. The format allows for a
10-minute presentation followed by a 10-minute expert feedback
follow-up. )
The WIP reports and posters are intended to present research still at
a preliminary stage and on which researchers would like to get
feedback.
The language of the conference is English.
Abstract Submission:
We invite submissions of abstracts in the range of 500 words
(excluding references) for presentations in one of the categories
listed above.
Please indicate the category of your submission (Full paper / WiP
Report / Corpus / software demonstration / Poster presentation) at the
beginning of your abstract.
Abstracts should include:
 - A clearly articulated research question and an explanation of its
relevance to learner corpus research
 - A brief overview of the research approach, data, and methods used
 - A summary of the main results and their interpretation
Submissions must be made via OpenReview (registration necessary):
https://openreview.net/group?id=learnercorpusassociation.org/LCR/2026/Conference&referrer=%5BHomepage%5D(%2F)#tab-your-consoles
The working language of the conference is English. Please do not
include author names or institutional affiliations in the submitted
abstract. For co-authored submissions, one author should register and
upload the abstract, but each co-author must register individually for
the conference.

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