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From https://www.jyu.fi/en/congress/tdl2019/cfp

 

The 4th international conference Thinking, doing, learning: Usage based perspectives on second language learning will be held in the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, on June 17-19, 2019.

 

The aim of TDL is to advance our understanding of what it means to take a usage-based approach to L2 learning and L2 research. The organizers invite researchers to explore a wide variety of topics related to language usage, language learning, and cognition. These include questions such as what it means to interact in L2 in different social contexts, how speakers accomplish social actions in moment-to-moment sense-making activities, and what is the nature of language use environments as well as sediments of usage events left as “acquired linguistic constructions” in the individual language learner. 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 or a socially distributed phenomenon?, and

• what are the implications for L2 teaching?

 

The organizers 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, and language learning. They are particularly, but not exclusively, interested in research that tackles (aspects of) the above-mentioned questions about the nature of language, learning, and cognition.

 

The deadline for abstract submission is 5 November 2018.

 

View the full call for papers at https://www.jyu.fi/en/congress/tdl2019/cfp