36.2814, Confs: 5th Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language Conference (United Kingdom)

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Date: 18-Sep-2025
From: Chris Leyland [chris.leyland at newcastle.ac.uk]
Subject: 5th Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language Conference


5th Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language
Conference
Short Title: ICOP-L2 2026

Date: 24-Aug-2026 - 26-Aug-2026
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Contact: Chris Leyland
Contact Email: chris.leyland at newcastle.ac.uk
Meeting URL: https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/icop-l2-26/

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

Submission Deadline: 20-Feb-2026

Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2)
conferences bring together researchers sharing a socially and
interactionally situated view of language use, L2 learning and L2
interactional competence development. We hereby invite researchers at
all career levels who draw on the principles of ethnomethodology,
(multimodal) conversation analysis, membership categorization
analysis, usage-based linguistics and related approaches to present
their research on how L2/multilingual speakers engage in sense-making
practices, how they accomplish language learning and teaching in and
through multimodal interaction, and how they develop their multimodal
L2/multilingual interactional competence.
This fifth ICOP-L2 conference will be held at Newcastle University in
the North-East of England, and hosted by the University’s Applied
Linguistics & Communication (ALC) research team. ALC at Newcastle has
a long and proud history of research in social interaction research,
and L2 interaction more specifically, dating back over 20 years.
The conference website is now available, please take a look:
https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/icop-l2-26/
These are the main strands of the conference, but we are open to other
contributions that cover interactional competences and L2 practices:
- Interaction and L2 learning in classrooms and ‘in the wild’
- L2 interactional competence and its development
- Language Testing and L2 interactional competence
- L2 interactional competence in professional settings, including L2
teacher education and development
- Technologically mediated interaction, learning and teaching
- Multimodality and materiality in L2 interactional competence across
settings and across time
- Multimodality and multilingualism in L2 teaching in and through
interaction
- The grammar-body interface in L2 interaction, learning and teaching
- L2 interaction and Artificial Intelligence
Keynote Speakers and Titles:
- Silvia Kunitz (Linköping University)
Task-based interactions: A research-informed and practice- oriented
exploration
- Paul Seedhouse (Newcastle University)
The Architecture of Human Spoken Interaction
- Daniel Lam (University of Glasgow)
Conversation analysis and language assessment: Celebrating the road
less travelled and exploring new avenues
Pre-Conference Workshops (24 August 2026 9am-12):
Three pre-conference workshops are aimed especially but not
exclusively at early career researchers. They will take place in the
morning of 24th August and will finish in time for the main
conference.
Workshop 1:
Theme: Hands-on workshop on visualization of video data for different
audiences
Facilitator: Nathalie Schümchen-Schram, (Language Expert, Master
English)
Workshop 2:
Theme: Analysing interactions in digital spaces
Facilitator: Tuire Oittinen, University of Jyväskylä
Workshop 3:
Theme: CA and Conversational AI
Facilitators: Adam Brandt and Spencer Hazel, Newcastle University
Please see the conference website for more information on the keynotes
and workshops.



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