36.2675, Confs: Studying the Language of Young Learners (Germany)

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Date: 08-Sep-2025
From: Valentin Werner [valentin.werner at uni-bamberg.de]
Subject: Studying the Language of Young Learners


Studying the Language of Young Learners

Date: 17-Sep-2025 - 18-Sep-2025
Location: Bamberg, Germany
Meeting URL: https://www.ygle.de/outreach

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition;
Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Workshop at the University of Bamberg, Germany, 17 to 18 September
2025 as part of the project "Young German Learner English" (funded by
the German Research Foundation; grant DFG 515774206)
Organized by Anna Rosen (University of Freiburg), Robert Fuchs
(University of Bonn) & Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg)
In research on Second Language Acquisition (SLA), and in the domain of
Learner Corpus Research (LCR) specifically, there has been a tendency
to rely on material from advanced learners, often university students,
given their comparatively easy accessibility for researchers (Gilquin,
2015; Plonsky, 2017). In consequence, young(er) second language (L2)
learners, typically found within institutional (secondary school)
contexts, are severely underrepresented (Tracy-Ventura et al., 2021).
However, this underrepresented group is of great theoretical
significance (Myles, 2015, 2021), as these learners exemplify
foundational learning stages. They are also of applied interest in
language education, as vastly more monetary and personnel resources
are devoted to teaching languages in schools than at universities. As
a consequence, improvements in teacher education and teaching
practices drawing on insights from SLA and LCR could yield substantial
benefits to society.
In the broader context of calls for more diversity in LCR and SLA
(e.g. Paquot, 2024), this workshop is intended as a meeting ground for
researchers who engage with young learner (inter-)language to share
insights from their current projects.
In addition to the regular papers, the workshop will feature two
keynotes by
- Shin’ichiro Ishikawa (University of Kobe, Japan), leader of the
ICNALE project
- Olga Lopopolo (University of Hamburg, Germany), researcher in
multilingualism and project coordinator of the CODILAC researcher
group
We'd like to invite you to participate remotely in the workshop. You
can find the full schedule and abstracts at
https://www.ygle.de/outreach/studying-the-language-of-young-learners.
Please submit your contact details at https://tinyurl.com/mry3vbfm if
you'd like to receive the relevant Zoom link. There's no participation
fee.
The YGLE project team
References:
Gilquin, G. (2015). From design to collection of learner corpora. In
S. Granger, G. Gilquin & F. Meunier (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of
Learner Corpus Research (pp. 9–34). Cambridge University Press.
Myles, F. (2015). SLA theory and Learner Corpus Research. In S.
Granger, G. Gilquin & F. Meunier (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of
Learner Corpus Research (pp. 309–331). Cambridge University Press.
Myles, F. (2021). Commentary: An SLA perspective on Learner Corpus
Research. In B. Le Bruyn & M. Paquot (Eds.), Learner Corpus Research
Meets Second Language Acquisition (pp. 258–273). Cambridge University
Press.
Paquot, M. (2024). Learner corpus research: A critical appraisal and
roadmap for contributing (more) to SLA research agendas. Corpus
Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 20(3), 567–590.
Plonsky, L. (2017). Quantitative research methods in instructed SLA.
In S. Loewen & M. Sato (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Instructed
Second Language Acquisition (pp. 505–521). Routledge.
Tracy-Ventura, N., Paquot, M. & Myles, F. (2021). The future of
corpora in SLA. In N. Tracy-Ventura & M. Paquot (Eds.), The Routledge
Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Corpora (pp. 409–424).
Routledge.



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