Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy
Short Title: CALP-5

Date: 04-Mar-2026 - 06-Mar-2026
Location: Tromsø, Norway
Contact: Anna Endresen
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/calp5/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 01-Oct-2025

We are pleased to announce that the next biennial international conference, “Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy” (CALP-5), will be held on March 4-6, 2026, at the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway (UiT).

The confirmed invited plenary speakers include:
• Hans C. Boas (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
• Thomas Herbst (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
• Margunn Rauset (University of Bergen, Norway)
• Olesya Kisselev (University of South Carolina, USA)

We invite contributions that thoroughly explore constructionist approaches to teaching first, second, foreign, or third languages, with a focus on, but not limited to, the following topics:
• Teaching a language via its constructions
• Constructionist language resources for language pedagogy
• ConstructiCons and constructicography
• Construction-based exercises
• Use of AI for building constructiCon resources
• Use of AI for identifying and describing constructions
• Use of AI for designing construction-based exercises
• Construction-based design of language proficiency tests
• Identification of constructions specific to professional jargon
• Representation of dialectal constructions in language teaching
• Contrastive studies of constructions and their use in language instruction
• Constructional rivalry
• Constructions in heritage language
• Acquisition of constructions

The working language of the conference is English. The oral presentations will be 20 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes for discussion, and a poster session will also be organized.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words, excluding references, clearly indicating the research question, data, methods, and major contributions of the study. The deadline for abstract submission is October 1, 2025, at 24:00 CET. All abstracts should be submitted digitally via EasyChair (see the conference website). We especially encourage the submission of abstracts by early career researchers.

UiT is the northernmost university in the world, located in Arctic Norway. It is ranked among the world's top 100 universities for linguistics, according to the QS World University Rankings 2024: No. 67 globally and No. 1 for linguistics in Norway. UiT is renowned for its large, active, and growing community of linguists. It serves as the center for Cognitive Linguistics research in Norway, represented by the CLEAR research group (Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian and Other Languages) and the Tromsø Constructicon Lab (ConLab), the primary hub for constructicography research in Norway. Tromsø is regarded as the capital of the Arctic and has been the starting point for North Pole expeditions. With a population of about 79,000, Tromsø is known for its rich cultural life, northern lights, and midnight sun. It is located at 69 degrees north, 350 kilometers above the Arctic Circle. Tromsø has an international airport, Langnes, located just 3 km from downtown. The airport has recently been expanded and offers many direct flights connecting Tromsø to Berlin, Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Vienna, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Gdańsk, and other cities. You can also travel from major cities in Norway, such as Oslo and Bergen, or reach Tromsø by bus or car.

We look forward to welcoming you to Tromsø and having a productive and enriching conference.