7th Conference

7th International Conference of Applied Linguistics Languages and People25–27 September 2025, at Vilnius University, Lithuania

Keynote Speakers

Elizabeth Lanza
University of Oslo (Norway)

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

Li Wei
University College London
(United Kingdom)

Conference Themes

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Language policy
  • Discourse analysis
  • Translation
  • Language teaching and learning
  • Language acquisition
  • Language testing
  • Corpus linguistics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Sign language
  • Pragmatics

Conference Languages

  • Lithuanian
  • English

Important dates

Submissions are invited for the following contributions:

  • full paper presentations: 30 minutes (20 minutes + 10 minutes for questions);
  • 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.


Important dates

  • Deadline for the submission of abstracts (full papers and posters): 17 February 2025
  • Deadline for the submission of workshop proposals (including a description and a list of presenters): 3 February 2025
  • Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2025  
  • Early-bird registration: 30 June 2025
  • Registration closes: 31 July 2025

Registration and 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

Abstracts

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 Programme Committee.

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


Organisers

  • Department of Lithuanian Studies, Institute of Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University
  • Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics (LITAKA)

Contacts

(Ms) Lina Vaškevičienė
Email: lina.vaskeviciene@flf.vu.lt