The 7th International Conference of Applied Linguistics Languages and People will be held from 25–27 September 2025 at the Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, Lithuania.

The conference will be held in person only.

Paper proposals are welcome across a range of disciplines, including sociolinguistics, language policy, discourse analysis, translation, pragmatics, language teaching and learning, language testing, language acquisition, lexicography, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and more. 

Keynote Speakers

Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen
University of Bath
(United Kingdom)

Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen is Professor in Applied Linguistics at the Department of Education, Director for Research in Education in China and East Asia (CRECEA), University of Bath, UK. Her research interests encompass ideological, sociocultural-cognitive and policy perspectives on children’s multilingual education and biliteracy development.  As an active researcher, she has examined bi/multilingual community-home-school contexts in the UK, Canada, China, France and Singapore on topics of curriculum policy, language-in-educational policy and family language policy. Her most recent research project is entitled Family Language Policy: A Multi-Level Investigation of Multilingual Practices in Transnational Families, funded by The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Her publications have appeared in leading academic journals, such as Language Policy; International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education; Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development; Language and Education; and Language, Culture and Curriculum.

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Elizabeth Lanza
University of Oslo
(Norway)

Elizabeth Lanza is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at University of Oslo, member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and former Director of MultiLing – Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan, a Centre of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway. She has published widely on multilingualism, addressing issues of language socialization, family language policies and practices, migrant narratives, language ideology, language policy, linguistic landscape and research methodology. Her most recent publications include “Familyscapes, Multilingualism and Family Language Policy” with Kellie Gonçalves, in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes (2024), and the special issue of Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices:“Family Multilingualism: Decolonial and Southern Approaches” (2023), co-edited with Rafael Lomeu Gomes.

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Li Wei
University College London
(United Kingdom)

Li Wei is Director and Dean of the University College London (UCL) Institute of Education (IOE), UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, where he also holds the Chair of Applied Linguistics. His research covers many different aspects of bi/ multilingualism, including the acquisition of multiple languages in childhood, family language policy, education policy and practice regarding bilingual and multilingual learners of minoritized and transnational backgrounds, and the cognitive benefits of language learning. He is co/author of over 20 books and edited collections and over 130 journal articles and book chapters. He is editor of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism and the Applied Linguistics Review. He has won the British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize twice, for the Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism (with Melissa Moyer) and Translanguaging: Language, Bilingualism and Education (with Ofelia Garcia).

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Conference Languages

  • Lithuanian
  • English

Abstracts

Submissions are invited for the following contributions:

  • full paper presentations: 30 minutes (20 minutes + 10 minutes for Q&A);
  • poster presentations;
  • thematic workshops (short: 1.5 hours with 3 presenters; long: 3 hours with 5-6 presenters).

The length of abstracts for full paper and poster presentations is 300–500 words (excluding references). Workshop convenors are invited to submit a description of the workshop (500–700 words, excluding references) and a list of confirmed workshop presenters. Workshop convenors are responsible for selecting presenters and planning slots in their workshops.

Each presenter is kindly requested to submit only one proposal for the conference.

Abstracts should be submitted through EasyChair. If you have not already done so, you will be prompted to set up an EasyChair account. Our submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=lap2025 Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by our Scientific Committee.

Please send proposals for thematic workshops to inesa.seskauskiene@flf.vu.lt.

Important Dates

  • Deadline for the submission of abstracts (full papers and posters): 17 February 2025. Extended deadline: 17 March
  • Deadline for the submission of workshop proposals: 3 February 2025. Extended deadline: 1 March
  • Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2025  
  • Early-bird registration: 30 June 2025
  • Registration closes: 31 July 2025

Conference Fees

  • Regular registration for presenters: 150 euros
  • Early-bird registration for presenters: 130 euros
  • Doctoral / MA students and LITAKA members: 120 euros 
  • Early-bird registration for doctoral / MA students and LITAKA members: 80 euros
  • Non-presenting participants who wish to obtain a certificate: 30 euros