36.2852, Calls: The Language of Foreign Language Teaching Materials and Reference Works (Germany)

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Subject: 36.2852, Calls: The Language of Foreign Language Teaching Materials and Reference Works (Germany)

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Date: 23-Sep-2025
From: Elen Le Foll [elefoll at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: The Language of Foreign Language Teaching Materials and Reference Works


Full Title: The Language of Foreign Language Teaching Materials and
Reference Works

Date: 07-Nov-2025 - 07-Nov-2025
Location: Osnabrück, Germany
Contact Person: Elen Le Foll
Meeting Email: elefoll at uni-koeln.de
Web Site: https://elenlefoll.quarto.pub/textbooklanguage2025/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition;
Lexicography; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     German (deu)
                     Spanish (spa)

Call Deadline: 10-Oct-2025

Call for Papers:
Symposium webpage with preliminary program:
https://elenlefoll.quarto.pub/textbooklanguage2025/.
About the Symposium:
Foreign language teaching and reference works play a crucial role in
institutionalised foreign language teaching and are known to
constitute an important source of learners’ foreign language (e.g.,
Huang 2019). However, multiple studies suggest that the language of
these textbooks often differs considerably from the kind of language
typically used in communicative situations outside the foreign
language classroom (e.g., Barbieri and Eckhardt 2007; Gilmore 2004; Le
Foll 2022; Römer 2004; Rössler 2010; Winter and Le Foll 2022). The
language of textbooks may even be considered a distinct language
variety (Le Foll 2024a, 2024b). Reference works traditionally used in
foreign language teaching have also been shown to under- or
misrepresent various lexico-grammatical features, as seen in
comparisons with recent corpus-based reference works (e.g., Fankhauser
2024; Siepmann and Bürgel 2021). This symposium is intended to provide
an opportunity to present and discuss new descriptive, comparative,
and evaluative studies on the language of foreign language teaching
materials. We look forward to empirical examinations of textbooks,
language learning apps, and other (digital) teaching materials, as
well as of reference works designed for foreign language teaching,
e.g., learner dictionaries and (learner) pedagogical grammars. The
symposium will also allow us to discuss key concepts such as
authenticity, pedagogical norms, and the relationship between teaching
materials and syllabi in foreign language teaching.
Final Call for Posters:
We still welcome contributions to the poster session in English,
German, French or Spanish. The symposium will take place at Osnabrück
University and will be on-site only. Submissions from early career
researchers are expressly welcome. To be included in the program,
please send an abstract of your planned contribution (300-500 words
plus bibliography) to elefoll at uni-koeln.de or
anna.fankhauser at uni-osnabrueck.de by 5 October 2025. We will get back
to you by 10 October 2025. If you have any questions, feel free to
contact us at the aforementioned e-mail addresses.
Thanks to generous support from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Fremdsprachenforschung, attendance is free, but registration is
compulsory.



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