International Conference on Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher Education
Short Title: icCALTE

Date: 13-Feb-2026 - 15-Feb-2026
Location: Ankara, Turkey
Contact: Ufuk Balaman
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://digilte.org/iccalte-conference/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Submission Deadline: 07-Sep-2025

The International Conference on Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher Education (icCALTE) will be held at TED University, Ankara, Türkiye on 13-15 February, 2026.

The icCALTE aims to bring together researchers broadly interested in language teacher education, professional development, classroom discourse, classroom interactional competence, L2 interactional practices and competences, and L2 learning/teaching/assessment. The conference welcomes contributions drawing on ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, interactional linguistics, discursive psychology, membership categorization analysis, or other related data-led and evidence-based approaches.

The icCALTE strands include but are not limited to:
- L2/multilingual interactional competence and its development, including professional development
- L2 classroom discourse and interaction
- L2 teacher education and development
- Technologically mediated interaction, learning and teaching
- Multilingual interaction and L2 learning in classrooms and in the wild
- Assessment of L2/multilingual interactional competence
- Multimodality and materiality in L2 interaction
- Evidence-based professional development

Keynotes:
Hansun Zhang Waring, Teachers College, Columbia University
Olcay Sert, Mälardalen University

Invited Panels:
1 - Fundamental CA research on L2 interaction: Lessons for applied CA research –
Organized by Simona Pekarek Doehler, Université de Neuchâtel
2 - CA perspectives on Classroom Interaction in Teacher Education – State of the art and future directions
Organized by Maxi Kupetz, Leipzig University

Invited Workshops:
1 - Exploring Customized AI Teaching Assistants – by Safinaz Büyükgüzel, Aarhus University
2 - Classroom Interactional Competence and Language Teaching – by Nilüfer Can Daşkın, Hacettepe University
3 - An Introduction to the DigiLTE Learning Environment: Exploring Data-Informed Evidence for Language Teacher Education – by DigiLTE Project Team

Contact: digilte[at]tedu.edu.tr; digilteproject[at]gmail.com or ufuk.balaman[at]tedu.edu.tr for inquiries about the conference.