Full Title: Thinking, Doing, Learning: Usage based Perspectives on Second Language Learning
Short Title: TDL5

Date: 03-Jun-2024 - 05-Jun-2024
Location: Kolding, Denmark
Contact Person: Søren W. Eskildsen
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://event.sdu.dk/registration-thinkingdoinglearning2024/conference

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition; Syntax

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2023

Meeting Description:

The 5th international conference Thinking, Doing, Learning: Usage-based perspectives on second language learning (TDL5) will be held at The University of Southern Denmark’s Kolding Campus on June 3-5, 2024.

Usage-based approaches to L2 learning have become central in applied linguistics. This conference brings together researchers who work with a wide range of questions about language usage, multimodality, language learning, multilingualism, and cognition. The conference pursues and advances empirical and theoretical interests in language, learning, and cognition and asks questions such as

- what is language – constructions or interactional competence?

- what is learning – social action or long-term portability?

- what is cognition – an individual property and/or a socially distributed phenomenon?

- how do multilingualism and L2 learning interface empirically?

- what are the roles of different modalities in language use, learning and teaching?

- how can L2 education take usage-based approaches into consideration?

New in 2024: TDL5 will be held back-to-back with the 4th edition of the thematically related international conference series Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language – ICOP-L2. he kinship between the two conferences makes for a promising combination that invites collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas among participants and across perspectives. The two conferences will be held as two separate but overlapping events with a plenary speaker to mark the closing of TDL and the opening of ICOP-L2 at the same time.

Explore the other conference website ICOP-L2 2024 for more information and join us in Kolding in June 2024!

Call for Papers:

The aim of TDL5 is to advance our understanding of what it means to take a usage-based approach to L2 learning and L2 research. Therefore, we invite researchers interested in a wide variety of questions to be answered about language usage, multimodality, language learning, multilingualism, and cognition. We pursue questions concerning what it means to interact in different multilingual/L2 settings in classrooms and beyond, how multilinguals/L2 speakers carry out and accomplish social actions in moment-to-moment sense-making activities, how the environments of language use sediment as acquired linguistic constructions in the individual language learner, how multilinguals/L2 speakers learn to rethink for speaking in a new language, and what the role of multimodality is across these settings and processes. This variety of questions involves strong, empirical and theoretical considerations of language, learning, and cognition: what is language – constructions or interactional competence?; what is learning – social action or long-term portability?; what is cognition – an individual property and/or a socially distributed phenomenon? How is the multilingualism-L2 interface visible empirically and approachable in research? What are the roles of different modalities in language use and learning? And what are the implications for L2 teaching?

We therefore invite 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

For submission visit our submission page:
https://event.sdu.dk/registration-thinkingdoinglearning2024/abstract-submission

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