37.2554, Confs: International Workshop on Multilingualism in Learner Corpus Research (Italy)

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Date: 03-Aug-2026
From: Aivars Glaznieks [aivars.glaznieks at eurac.edu]
Subject: International Workshop on Multilingualism in Learner Corpus Research


International Workshop on Multilingualism in Learner Corpus Research
Short Title: MLCR27

Date: 06-May-2027 - 07-May-2027
Location: Bolzano, Italy
Contact: Aivars Glaznieks
Contact Email: porta at eurac.edu
Meeting URL: http://www.porta.eurac.edu/mlcr27/

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

Submission Deadline: 15-Oct-2026

Modern societies are increasingly characterised by multilingual
realities. Migration and transnational exchange have led to highly
heterogeneous, “superdiverse” societies (Blommaert & Rampton 2011;
Vertovec 2007), in which individuals routinely draw on multiple
linguistic resources from their repertoires, including national,
regional, minority, heritage and other acquired languages.
In recent years, disciplines concerned with language learning—such as
Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Third Language Acquisition (TLA)
and multilingual acquisition research—have increasingly recognised
that learners of additional languages are often plurilingual
individuals embedded in multilingual contexts (e.g. Riehl & Schroeder
2025; Sánchez 2020; De Angelis 2007; Puig-Mayecano, Gonzáles & Rothman
2018). This shift has also been reflected in learner corpus research
(LCR). A growing body of work (e.g. Wulff 2017, 2023; Gilquin 2022;
Frey 2025; Lopopolo et al. 2025) highlights the importance of taking
learners’ multilingual backgrounds into account in both the design and
analysis of learner corpora.
While most learner corpora are organised around a single target
language, multilingual approaches are gaining ground. These include
corpora that cover multiple target languages to enable
cross-linguistic comparison (e.g. SWIKO, Hicks & Studer 2024; MLC,
Tagnin 2006), as well as more rare but particularly valuable corpora
that contain productions in multiple languages by the same learners
(e.g. LEONIDE, Glaznieks et al. 2022; TRAWL, Dirdal et al. 2022). At
the same time, there is still no consensus on what exactly constitutes
a “multilingual learner corpus”, and research questions and
methodological approaches vary widely (e.g. Hasselgård & Oksefjell
Ebeling 2018; Dirdal & Vold 2025; Ferraresi & Bernardini 2023).
This workshop aims to bring together researchers working at the
intersection of multilingualism and learner corpus research, and to
foster discussion on theoretical, methodological, and empirical issues
in this emerging field.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Hildegunn Dirdal (University of Oslo, Norway)
Heike Wiese (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
We welcome contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following
topics:
 - conceptualisations and definitions of multilingual learner corpora
 - design, compilation, and annotation of multilingual learner corpora
 - methodological challenges in capturing multilingual learner
profiles
 - comparable developmental pathways across languages
 - cross-linguistic influence and transfer
 - multilingual speaking, writing and translation practices
 - plurilingual competence and repertoire-based approaches
 - longitudinal perspectives on multilingual development
 - pedagogical implications of multilingual learner corpus research
 - innovative methods and tools for analysing multilingual learner
data
 - multilingual learner corpus data in mixed methods designs
Submission Guidelines:
Please submit anonymized abstracts of max. 300 words (excluding
references) in English via ConfTool
(https://conftool.lt.eurac.edu/MLCR27/). Submissions will be subject
to blind peer-review.
Important Dates:
Abstract submission deadline: October 15, 2026
Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2026
Workshop dates: May 6–7, 2027
Format
The workshop will include full paper presentations (20 minutes + 10
minutes discussion), work-in-progress presentations (10 minutes + 5
minutes discussion) and a poster session.
Contact:
Organisers: Aivars Glaznieks and Jennifer-Carmen Frey (Eurac Research
Bolzano)
Email: porta at eurac.edu
Website: www.porta.eurac.edu/mlcr27/



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