37.2217, Calls: 16th International Symposium on Bilingualism (Canada)

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Subject: 37.2217, Calls: 16th International Symposium on Bilingualism (Canada)

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Date: 29-Jun-2026
From: Veronika Makarova [v.makarova at usask.ca]
Subject: 16th International Symposium on Bilingualism


Full Title: 16th International Symposium on Bilingualism
Short Title: ISB16

Date: 14-Jun-2027 - 18-Jun-2027
Location: Saskatoon, Canada
Contact Person: Veronika Makarova
Meeting Email: v.makarova at usask.ca
Web Site: https://conferences.usask.ca/isb16/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Language
Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2026

Call for Papers:
The International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB 16), to be held in
Saskatoon, Canada, on June 14-18, 2027, is pleased to announce the
first Call for Individual Presentations Proposals (an abstract of a
presentation that can be single authored or co-authored. The theme of
ISB 16 is “Languages in Academia and in Communities”. ISB is the
leading international conference in the field of bi/multilingualism.
The five-day program will cover a broad range of topics, including
bilingual communication, language and cognition, child language
development, language education, health communication, heritage and
immigrant languages, Indigenous languages, translation and
interpreting, neurolinguistics, minority and regional languages,
psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics.
All abstract submissions should be anonymous. Please remove any
information from the body of your abstract that could identify its
author(s). Sufficient detail on the theory, the research methods and
results should be provided to enable reviewers to evaluate the
scholarly merit of the proposal. Abstracts, including references, must
not exceed 400 words. References, if included, should be formatted in
APA 7th style. Each individual may submit a maximum of three
individual proposals as the first (or sole) author. There is no limit
on the number of co-authored presentations, provided that the
individual is not the first author.
The available presentation formats are: an oral presentation (20 min
with Q/A) and a poster (printed). To accommodate participants who may
require a visa to enter Canada but are unable to obtain it on time, a
limited number (50) of online presentation slots will also be
available.
Proposals should be uploaded through the ISB 16 individual submission
portal Oxford Abstracts (you need to create a profile first) by
October 1, 2026.
Submit your proposal by clicking here:
https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/82075/submitter
Notification of acceptance will be sent in early January 2027.
Additional conference information will posted as it becomes available
on the conference website https://conferences.usask.ca/isb16/
For questions, please contact  isb16sask at gmail.com



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