36.3600, Confs: 6th International Conference Thinking Doing Learning (Netherlands)

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Subject: 36.3600, Confs: 6th International Conference Thinking Doing Learning (Netherlands)

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Date: 20-Nov-2025
From: Rasmus Steinkrauss [r.g.a.steinkrauss at rug.nl]
Subject: 6th International Conference Thinking Doing Learning


6th International Conference Thinking Doing Learning
Short Title: TDL6
Theme: Usage-Based Perspectives on Second Language Learning

Date: 14-Oct-2026 - 16-Oct-2026
Location: Groningen, Netherlands

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language
Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics

After the successful 5th edition in Kolding in 2024, the 6th
international conference Thinking, Doing, Learning: Usage-Based
Perspectives on Second Language Learning (TDL6) will take place at the
University of Groningen, the Netherlands, on 14–16 October 2026.
TDL6 brings together researchers exploring second language learning
through usage-based, empirical, and theoretically grounded approaches.
These perspectives view language as an embodied, semiotic, and
interactional system, and understand language use as the primary
condition for language learning.
The conference addresses questions spanning cognition, context,
interaction, multimodality, and multilingualism: How do L2 users and
multilinguals accomplish actions in moment-to-moment sense-making
activities? How do environments of language use sediment as learned
linguistic constructions? How do speakers learn to “rethink for
speaking” in a new language, and what roles do different modalities
play? What is cognition - individual or socially distributed? And what
are the implications for L2 teaching?
TDL6 invites contributions drawing on diverse epistemologies,
theories, and methods from usage based language learning research to
advance our understanding of language, learning, and cognition, and to
reflect on their implications for L2 research and teaching. The Call
for Papers, along with the website URL and contact details, will be
distributed via Linguist List in January 2026.
Keynote Speakers:
- Karin Madlener-Charpentier (Giessen)
- Taiane Malabarba (Potsdam)
- Sible Andringa (Amsterdam)
Invited symposium by Minna Suni (Jyväskylä)
Important Dates:
5 Jan 26 - 13 Mar 26: Abstract submission open
11 May 26: Registration opens, notifications of acceptance sent out
5 June 26: Early bird registration closes
4 Sept 26: Registration closes
14-16 Oct 26: TDL6 in Groningen!
The conference takes place in Groningen, the largest city in the north
of the Netherlands. With 250.000 inhabitants and a large student
population, it's a lively city with interesting museums, a host of
good restaurants, and a vibrant art and music scene. The city center,
where everything is in walking distance, is surrounded by a canal
enclosing beautiful historical architecture and fascinating modern
buildings. Groningen sits in between heathlands and woodlands to the
south and the flat green landscape with its large skies to the north,
perfect for hiking and biking, and the coast with the UNESCO world
heritage area of the Wadden Sea and the Frisian islands is only 30
minutes away. We are looking forward to having you!



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