Full Title: The 2025 International Joint Conference of APLX, ETA, and TESPA

Date: 07-Nov-2025 - 08-Nov-2025
Location: GIS Taipei Tech Convention Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Contact Person: Dr Maggie Leung
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://aplx.org/2025/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition; Pragmatics; Translation

Call Deadline: 12-Mar-2025

Call for Papers:

Announcement: The abstract submission deadline has been extended to March 12.
Conference website: https://aplx.org/2025/

We are pleased to announce the call for abstracts for the 2025 International Joint Conference of APLX (2025 Taipei Tech International Conference on Applied Linguistics), ETA (The 34th International Symposium on English Language Teaching and Learning) and TESPA (International Conference on ESP) scheduled for November 7-8, 2025 at National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT, Taipei Tech), Taipei, Taiwan.

With the conference theme ‘Re-imaging human empowerment in ELT for a changing world’, we aim to spark dialogue on how we can re-conceptualize empowerment, carrying forward valuable pedagogical “user states” (e.g., existing knowledge, learner identities, effective methodologies) while introducing new frameworks, narratives, and practices that better serve our learners and teachers in an ever-changing world.

Abstracts are welcome in any area of applied linguistics and English language teaching and learning, including but not limited to:

1. Applied Linguistics: pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, phraseology, language and culture, language and technology, language assessment, cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication, gender studies, multimodalities, and other relevant topics;
2. Bilingual Education and Bilingualism: English medium instruction (EMI), content and language integrated learning (CLIL), bilingual language acquisition, bilingual teacher education and development, and other relevant topics;
3. Foreign Language Teaching Theory and Practice: L2 acquisition/second language acquisition, content-based instruction, multi-/cross-cultural issues in English education, technology and English education, language assessment, and other relevant topics;
4. ESP Research and Teaching: technical writing, corpus resources, English for vocational education/business/management/tourism/science/technology/engineering, innovations in ESP curriculum design, international/inter-cultural communication, trends and challenges in English for specific purposes, and other relevant topics;
5. Translation Studies: theory and practice of translation and interpretation, translation and interpretation teaching, audiovisual translation, game localization, translation and technology, news translation, and other relevant topics.
6. Other Topics such as literature and language teaching

Types of presentations
Oral presentation: Each paper will be allocated 20 minutes for oral presentation and 5 minutes for discussion.
Poster presentation: A dedicated area and time slot will be arranged for display and discussion of posters.

Abstract submission
- Abstracts should be between 200-300 words, with 3-5 keywords
- Submission are to be made via https://forms.gle/hGhyPgDqCn49iQDU8

Important dates
- Abstract submission deadline: February 28, 2025; Extended to March 12, 2025
- Notification of abstract acceptance: April 15, 2025
- Full paper submission: September 1, 2025
- Notification of full paper acceptance: October 15, 2025

Organizers
Department of English, National Taipei University of Technology
English Teachers’ Association-Republic of China (ETA-ROC)
Taiwan ESP Association (TESPA)