A provisional version of the conference programme is available to view below. Please note that this is subject to change.
A final version (with more user-friendly formatting!) will be published in due course.
Information for Presenters can be found here.
Below is a schedule of timings, including confirmation of SIG Track dates.
Tuesday 1st September 2026
| Time | Event |
| 09:00-10:45 | Registration |
| 10:45-11:00 | Conference Opening |
| 11:00-12:00 | Plenary: Jannis Androutsopoulos |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-15:00 | Parallel Session 1 |
| 15:00-15:30 | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| 15:30-17:00 | Parallel Session 2 |
| 17:00-17:45 | BAAL Book Prize |
| TBC | Welcome Drinks Reception |
Tuesday’s SIG Tracks
• Health and Science Communication
• Language, Gender and Sexuality (LGaS)
• Language, Learning and Teaching (LLT) (first half)
• Linguistic Ethnography Forum (LEF)
• Linguistics and Knowledge about Language in Education (LKALE)
• Vocabulary
Wednesday 2nd September 2026
| Time | Event |
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00-10:00 | Plenary: Sarah Mercer |
| 10:00-10:30 | Morning Coffee Break |
| 10:30-12:00 | Parallel Session 3 |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-14:30 | Parallel Session 4 |
| 14:30-15:30 | Poster Session with Afternoon Coffee |
| 15:30-16:30 | Parallel Session 5 |
| 16:30-17:30 | Plenary: Sharese King |
| 17:45-18:45 | BAAL AGM |
| TBC | Conference Dinner |
Wednesday’s SIG Tracks
• Asian Language Education in Global Contexts (ALEG)
• Humans, Machines, Language (HuMaLa)
• Intercultural Communication
• Language and Education for Social Justice (LESJ)
• Language, Learning and Teaching (LLT) (second half)
• Literacies
• Research Involving Children (RICH)
• Research Synthesis in Applied Linguistics (RSAL)
Thursday 3rd September 2026
| Time | Event |
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00-10:00 | Plenary: April Baker-Bell |
| 10:00-10:30 | Morning Coffee Break |
| 10:30-12:00 | Parallel Session 6 |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-14:30 | Parallel Session 7 |
| 14:30-15:00 | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| 15:00-16:30 | Parallel Session 8 |
| 16:30-17:00 | Conference Closing |
Thursday’s SIG Tracks
• Corpus Linguistics
• English-Medium Instruction
• Language in Africa
• Language Policy
• Multilingualism
• Testing, Evaluation and Assessment (TEA)
Poster Presentations
The Use of Metaphor in Cosmetic Advertisements (A comparative study between luxury and budget brands)
kholah alrbaian
Cognitive Load in AI-Assisted vs. Non-AI-Assisted L2 Writing Among Low-Proficiency EFL Learners in Saudi Arabia
Asmaa Alshaikh
Stylometric Signals of AI Exposure: ChatGPT-Influenced Simplification and Sophistication
John Blake
Washback in the Age of Generative AI: Evidence of AI‑Shaped Writing in Paper‑Based In-Class L2 Assessments
Damon Brewster
Transforming Community Language Learning and Teaching: Towards More Inclusive Practices
Mitchell Culhane
A day in the life of a teacher trainee: an England-Vietnam comparative linguistic ethnographic study
Khoa Do
Social Media Sentiment Analysis and Pre Service Teachers’ Views of GenAI in English Language Teaching
Lorena Salud Gadella Kamstra, Yue Zhou, Jessica Fernanda Cebrian Aguirre
Supervised Machine-Learning Modelling of Multilingual Experience Effects on Inhibitory Control and Visuospatial Working Memory
Xuran Han
Metadiscourse Shifts as Indicators of Interpreter Mediation: A Corpus-Based Study of Cantonese–English Courtroom Interaction
Sihui HE, Jiawei SHI
Beyond Monologues: Lexical Bundle Length as a Predictor of L2 Fluency in Academic Multilogues
Christopher Hollis, Jon Clenton, Daniel Hougham, Gavin Brooks
Beyond Reductionism in Teacher Education for Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts: Towards a Complexity-Informed Curricular Framework
Asad Iqbal
Sixteen Years of Learning Mandarin Chinese: An Autoethnographic Study of Motivation and Self-Concept
Sara Jaaksola
The emotional impact of generative AI tools on language teachers and learners
Sam Morris
“Party trick; it’s cool to brag about how many languages you can speak”: Exploring Multilingual Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Experiences and Emotions
Kaisa Pankakoski
Synthetic Personalities, Authentic Expression? Corpus Evidence of Big Five Traits in Human and LLM-Generated Texts
Jiawei SHI, Sihui HE
Conflicting language ideologies, multilingualism and differential academic outcomes: Exploring the experiences of Black and Asian nursing and midwifery students in England
Kathryn Sidaway, Diana J Pritchard, Sibel Kaya
Teaching English Grammar to Younger Learners: An Empirical Case Study on Secondary School Students
Chi-Yuan Wang
Exploring Pre-service EFL Teachers’ Translanguaging Stances and Practices in China: From Theory to Practice
QINGYANG WANG
CLIL for all? Examining a localised CLIL programme for Chinese EFL learners across socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds in secondary education
Yun Wang
A scoping review of AI-mediated feedback for academic writing of EFL undergraduate students
Jiaqi Xu, Yi Guo
Validity by Design: Seed-Based LLM Augmentation and Scenario Generation for CEFR-Stratified Interactional Corpora
Tsukasa Yamanaka, Sayako Maswana, Nozomi Ishikawa, Hajime Terauchi
Chinese International Students’ Language Practices at a UK University: A Multiple Case Study of In- and Out-of-Class Peer Interactions and Participants’ Situated Reflections
Yushi Ye
The Postnormative Turn: Empowering Non-native English Speaker Teachers through Intercultural ELF Teacher Education
Ziwei Zhou
From Passive Reception to Collaborative Action: Enhancing EFL Students’ Engagement with Teacher Written Feedback Through Student-Teacher-AI Synergy
XIAOMENG XIONG
Lightning Talks
The Impact of Short-Term Study Abroad on Intercultural Competence: A Longitudinal Study in Progress
Joseph Wood
“First we need to find a basic job”: Language ideologies and labour mobility in a narrative from Ireland’s ELT sector
Sarah Gallagher
Informal Language Exchange as Social Capital for Vietnamese Migrants in Japanese Higher Education
Robert Higgins
Language Choice in Church: Everyday language practices in European English-speaking congregations
Linda Sauer Bredvik
Language, Emotion and Cultural Change in Cantopop: A Diachronic Corpus Study of Cantonese Song Lyrics (1980–2025)
Giving advice on paragraph length in an academic writing course: How long is “too long”?
Malcolm Prentice
Promoting Gender-Inclusive Feedback in L2 Writing: A PRESETT Intervention in Central Asia
Diana McCray, Diane Pecorari
Neural phase entrainment and statistical word learning (scoping review)
Guro Stensby Sjuls, Nora N. Harvei, Mila D. Vulchanova