​ Call for Papers

ALAA-ALANZ-ALTAANZ 2026

"Crossing Paths: Celebrating 50 Years of Applied Linguistics in Australia and Aotearoa"

Abstracts Due 18 May 2026 Monday

Abstract submission guidelines

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To submit your abstract, please go to Oxford Abstracts:

​Deadline: 18 May 2026 ​Presenters notified: early July 2026
Submit via Oxford Abstracts
20 mins + 5 mins Q&A

Paper proposals

Please include:

  • ​Title
  • ​A 250-word abstract
  • ​50-word presenter biography
  • ​Identification of conference strand alignment
  • ​Identification of three keywords for the paper
1 hour; AO size

Poster presentation proposals

Please include:

  • ​Title
  • ​A 250-word abstract
  • ​50-word presenter biography
  • ​Identification of conference strand alignment
  • ​Identification of three keywords for the poster
90 mins; 3-5 speakers

Colloquium proposals

Please include:

  • ​Colloquium Title
  • ​A 400-word overview of the topic
  • ​A 250-word abstract for each paper
  • ​50-word biographies of all participants
  • ​Identification of conference strand alignment
  • ​Identification of three keywords

For Abstract submission enquiries, please contact the Conference Organiser at applingconference2026@uq.edu.au

We invite submissions that address the following strands:

includes areas related to indigenous languages in education (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, Māori language and the other languages of the NZ Realm or other regions or contexts around the world), heritage and community language education, language revitalisation and cultural agency as well as language maintenance and shift
includes areas related to bilingual or multilingual practices, communities, and education, English as a lingua franca
includes areas related to discourse, conversation and interaction analysis, digital and multimodal communication, digital multimodal composing, linguistic landscape
includes areas related to language learners and learning, including cognitive processes, data-driven learning, psycholinguistics, factors affecting or part of language learning, and first, second and/or additional language learning/acquisition, broadly defined
includes areas related to micro- or macro-level issues around governance, policy, and societal language dynamics, language planning and policy
includes areas related to language teacher education, professional development, teacher cognition, teacher literacy
includes areas related to teaching innovation, teaching methodologies, approaches/aspects, context-specific language teaching, curriculum development, technology in language teaching (e.g., digital technologies and GenAI)
includes areas related to evaluation of a language program or teacher education program
includes areas related to testing and assessing language learning, skills and use, technologies in language testing and assessment, etc
includes areas related to research-focused, methodological expertise, innovation or application of research design, methodology, method or technique
includes areas related to social dynamics, identity, and cultural/intercultural interaction, such as sociolinguistics, pragmatics and intercultural communication, transcultural communication and literacies, activism in applied linguistics
includes areas related to technology-focused linguistic research (non-teaching, learning or assessment such as corpus linguistics, digital and multimodal communication (also above; fits both)
includes areas related to professional and practice-oriented mediation work, translating and interpreting
including topics that do not fit the above strands but clearly belong to applied linguistics, are genuinely cross-cutting, or represent emerging or niche areas.