Full Title: 2025 Second Language Research Forum
Short Title: SLRF

Date: 25-Sep-2025 - 28-Sep-2025
Location: Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
Contact Person: Kelly Kendro
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/nau.edu/slrf2025/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2025

2025 Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) - Final Call for Proposals

Please join us in Flagstaff, Arizona, for SLRF 2025, which will take place on September 25-28, 2025, and be hosted by the Applied Linguistics program at Northern Arizona University.

SLRF 2025 invites submissions for poster and paper presentations related to second language knowledge, broadly construed, including (but not limited to) second language acquisition, L2 pedagogy, bilingualism and multilingualism, language attrition, language contact, second languages in the clinical setting, L2 assessment, and teaching second/foreign languages.

Proposals are due March 31, 2025, at 11:59pm MST.

Please view our CFP at https://sites.google.com/nau.edu/slrf2025/call-for-proposals.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS

1. General submission instructions
-An author may submit only one paper or one poster as the first author, but they may also be a presenter/co-author on additional papers or posters. All documents submitted should be completely anonymized, with all references to institutions and presenters removed.

2. Instructions for individual papers or posters
-Individual paper sessions must be designed for a 20-minute presentation followed by a 10-minute question/discussion period.
-Proposals for individual papers or posters should complete the information in the submission form, including:
*A title (15 words maximum)
*Keywords (5 keywords maximum)
*An abstract (250 words maximum)

3. Evaluation of proposals
Only proposals submitted meeting the guidelines outlined above will be evaluated. Those not meeting the criteria will be rejected. Proposals for individual papers and posters will be evaluated using the following criteria:
-Appropriateness and importance of the topic
-Research design or conceptual framework
-Organizational clarity
-Notification of acceptance
-Notifications to authors regarding proposal acceptance or rejection will occur approximately mid-May 2025.

Proposals may be submitted via Oxford Abstracts at https://auth.oxfordabstracts.com/?redirect=/stages/75819/submitter.

Our plenary speakers will be:
-Doug Biber, professor emeritus of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University
-Masatoshi Sato, professor of English at Universidad Andrés Bello

Interested researchers can join the SLRF listserv (https://forms.gle/q6AZDyWfGM9Q3MZcA) to directly receive conference updates and/or volunteer to review abstracts (https://forms.gle/hpDrcX8P6PBzU99g7).

Please contact [email protected] with any related questions. We hope to see you in Flagstaff!

Best regards,
Kelly Kendro
On behalf of the SLRF 2025 Organizing Committee