Call for Papers: LEAP PG Conference, 15-16 July 2025, University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen’s first International PGR conference on
Language Education, Acquisition & Policy
2025
Keynote Speakers
- Professor Mustapha Lahlali (University of Leeds)
- Professor Li Li (University of Exceter)
- Professor Robert McColl Millar (University of Aberdeen)
Overview
Each year, hundreds of international students come to the United Kingdom to help shape the conversations on language education, acquisition, and policy though their doctoral research. Some of their contributions will directly impact the ways languages are taught and learned in their home countries, other contributions will go far beyond and affect the international community. To facilitate knowledge exchange and networking among PhD students working in these areas, the Centre of Training and Research in Linguistics is inviting PGRs from across the United Kingdom to join us for a two-day conference at the University of Aberdeen. LEAP 2025 will serve to connect emerging scholars and help them in the planning of their next career move, with keynote talks from Professors Lahlali, Li, and Millar as well as career workshops lead by staff at Language & Linguistics in Aberdeen.
We invite PGRs in the SHAPE disciplines to submit papers centred on language policy, education, and language acquisition, particularly, but not limited to the following topics:
- AI-assisted language learning
- Boundaries between foreign and second language learning
- Creativity in the language classroom
- Language contact in a globalised world
- Language learning as a life-long endeavour
- Language learning policies in multilingual contexts
- Mental health and well-being in the language classroom
- (New) challenges for English as a Lingua Franca
This will be an in-person event only. Registration information will follow once we have a preliminary conference program in mid-June. Everyone will be welcome to attend.
Submission Guidelines
We welcome submissions from doctoral students and recent graduates for individual and collaborative papers (15 minutes), posters, as well as non-traditional formats.
Please send anonymised abstracts of no more than 200 words (including references) to ctrl@abdn.ac.uk by 2 June 2025. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 16 June 2025.
Registration
To register at our conference, please fill in this survey.