37.50, Calls: 6th International Conference Thinking Doing Learning (Netherlands)

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Subject: 37.50, Calls: 6th International Conference Thinking Doing Learning (Netherlands)

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Date: 05-Jan-2026
From: Rasmus Steinkrauss [r.g.a.steinkrauss at rug.nl]
Subject: 6th International Conference Thinking Doing Learning


Full Title: 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

Call Deadline: 13-Mar-2026

Call for Papers:
URL for submission of abstracts:
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/TDL6/
Thinking, Doing, Learning: Usage-Based Perspectives on Second Language
Learning (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 aim of TDL is to advance our understanding of what it means to
take a usage-based approach to L2 learning and L2 research. We invite
researchers to explore a wide variety of topics related to language
usage, language learning, and cognition. These include questions such
as what it means to interact in L2 in different social contexts, how
speakers accomplish social actions in moment-to-moment sense-making
activities, and what is the nature of language use environments as
well as sediments of usage events left as “acquired linguistic
constructions” in the individual language learner.
This variety of questions involves strong, empirical and theoretical
considerations of language, learning, and cognition, such as:
- what is language – constructions or interactional competence?
- what is learning – social action or long-term portability?
- what is cognition – an individual property or a socially distributed
phenomenon?
- what are the implications for L2 teaching?
Submission instructions:
We welcome all conference contributions that draw on epistemologies,
theories, and methods from across the spectrum of usage-based language
learning research, including data-driven and theory driven empirical
investigations of the relation between cognition, context,
interaction, multimodality, multilingualism and language learning.
We invite the submission of abstracts (for paper or poster
presentations) addressing these aspects of L2 learning research. These
include, but are not limited to:
- Construction-based L2 learning
- Conversation Analytic approaches to L2 learning and interactional
competence
- Multimodality, gesture, and L2 learning
- Dynamic Systems / Chaos-Complexity-based L2 learning research
- Linguistic relativity, thinking-for-speaking and L2 learning
- Language socialization, multilingualism and L2 learning
- Socio-cognitive, socio-cultural, and ecological L2 learning research
- Implications of the above-mentioned strands for L2 teaching, L2
education and teacher training
Talks will be allocated 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions.
Submission Instructions:
1. Abstracts for talks and posters should be max. 300 words (excluding
references).
2. Limited places will be allocated to two- or three-hour panels
(symposia) which are centered around a theme related to the
conference. A symposium proposal should include an abstract (500 words
max), describing the theme and outlining how the individual
contributions illuminate the theme. The proposal must indicate the
length of the symposium (two or three hours). Abstracts of the
individual presentations (300 words max) must be included in the same
submission in the proposed order of presentation. Organizer(s) are
responsible for managing the time (two or three hours) allocated to
the full symposium and to each presentation. In case of more symposium
proposals than can be accommodated in the program, the individual
abstracts may be considered for inclusion in the conference as paper
or poster presentations.
3. Submissions must be in pdf format and written in English.
Please submit your abstract here:
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/TDL6/
Notifications of acceptance will be sent on May 11, 2026. Please
contact tdl6 at rug.nl and view the conference website
(www.rug.nl/let/tdl6) for any questions you might have.



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