37.299, Confs: Linguistics at School in a European Perspective 2026 (Switzerland)

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Date: 20-Jan-2026
From: Andreas Trotzke [trotzke at ds.uzh.ch]
Subject: Linguistics at School in a European Perspective 2026


Linguistics at School in a European Perspective 2026
Short Title: LiDi 2026

Date: 13-Apr-2026 - 14-Apr-2026
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Meeting URL: https://www.ds.uzh.ch/de/tagungen/lidi2026.html

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Language Acquisition

Linguistics at school in a European perspective (LiDi 2026)
University of Zurich
April 13-14, 2026
Organizers:
Angelika Golegos & Andreas Trotzke
https://www.ds.uzh.ch/de/tagungen/lidi2026.html
April 13, 2026: Southern and Central Europe
Keynote
09:30 - 10:15 Anna Pineda (University of Barcelona/Spain)
Bringing linguistics into the pre-university classroom: Insights and
experiences from Catalan and Spanish
language teaching
Case Studies I
10:15 - 10:45 Cristina Pierantozzi, Tania Stortini & Gloria Cocchi
(University of Urbino/Italy)
Code-switching in L2 vocabulary acquisition
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 11:45 Catarina Rosa & Joana Batalha (University of
Lisbon/Portugal)
Language variation and grammar education: Insights from Portuguese
secondary-school students
11:45 - 12:15 Chiara Facciani (University for Foreigners of
Siena/Italy)
Children reasoning about language: Linguistic awareness in
multilingual small-group activities
12:15 - 12:45 Sabrina Bertollo (University of Verona/Italy)
Who’s the boss? (Re)discovering hierarchy and the concept of ‘head’ in
GFL school settings
12:45 - 14:15 Lunch break
Keynote
14:15 - 15:00 Ann-Marie Moser (University of Zurich/Switzerland)
(Swiss) German dialects, grammar, and variation in the pre-university
language classroom
Case Studies II
15:00 - 15:30 Elisabeth Stark & Harald Völker (University of
Zurich/Switzerland)
Faut pas le dire comme ça! – which French to teach at school?
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Edith Kádár (Babeș-Bolyai University/Romania)
>From learning about to learning with language: Linguistic variation
and reflection in the Hungarian L1 classroom in Romania
16:30 - 17:00 Marija Runic (University of Banja
Luka/Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Preserving linguistic diversity through education: A case study of an
endangered Romance variety in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Keynote
17:00 - 17:45 Tom Rankin (Masaryk University Brno/Czech Republic)
Grammar rules in English as a foreign language materials: Where
linguistics meets education
Social Part
as of 18:00 Apéro
as of 19:00 Conference dinner
April 14, 2026: Central and Northern Europe
Keynote
09:30 - 10:15 Jimmy van Rijt (Utrecht University/Netherlands)
How can reasoning about grammatical (meta)concepts be stimulated?
Evidence from the Dutch context
Case Studies III
10:15 - 10:45 Julia Edeleva & Renata Shamsutdinova (TU
Braunschweig/Germany)
Reasoning about language: How frameworks for thinking shape linguistic
reasoning in pre-service teachers
10:45 – 11:15 Ania Snarska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań/Poland)
Cross-linguistic variety in the morphological form: On how to raise
language awareness among high school students
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 - 12:15 Susan Lynn Erdmann & Dragana Šurkalović (University of
Agder & OsloMet/Norway)
Mitigation and strengthening assertions and the social effects on
speaker’s reputation of trustworthiness
12:15 - 12:45 Lenka Garshol & Dragana Šurkalović (University of Agder
& OsloMet/Norway)
Language structure didactics: Old-fashioned or modern? Grammar
teaching in foreign languages in Norwegian primary and secondary
schools
12:45 -14:15 Lunch break
Case Studies IV
14:15 - 14:45 Ilona Tragel, Nele Karolin Teiva & Kati Käpp (University
of Tartu/Estonia)
Experiential learning as a tool for developing linguistic awareness
14:45 - 15:15 Giedre Balcytyte (Vilnius University/Lithunia)
Making fluency audible: Prosody in EFL classrooms through music
approach
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 - 16:15 Emma Marsden (University of York/UK)
Language awareness in primary schools: Rationales, examples, and ways
forward
Keynote
16:15 - 17:00 Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University/UK)
[joint work with Alice Corr, Anna Havinga, Jonathan Kasstan, Norma
Schifano & Sascha Stollhans]
Embedding linguistics in UK school-based language teaching: The path
to progress short break
Pan-European Panel:
17:15 - 18:15 Discussants:
Ann-Marie Moser (University of Zurich/Switzerland)
Anna Pineda (University of Barcelona/Spain)
Tom Rankin (University Brno/Czech Republic)
Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University/UK)
Jimmy van Rijt (Utrecht University/Netherlands)
Moderators:
Angelika Golegos (University of Zurich/Switzerland)
Andreas Trotzke (University of Zurich/Switzerland)
Farewell & Ending



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