Linguistics in Ireland: Reflecting on the past, looking to the future

Celebrating 50 years of the Irish Association of Applied Linguistics

CALL FOR PAPERS

The IRAAL 50th anniversary conference aims to bring together all sectors of Applied Linguistics in Ireland to celebrate half a century of our association’s academic activity. We welcome abstracts (max. 250 words) for conceptual and empirical presentations in any area of Applied Linguistics, broadly defined, including, but not confined to the following:

• Bilingualism

• Multilingualism

• Plurilingualism and/or Translanguaging

• Corpus Linguistics

• Language Policy and Language Planning

• Language Teaching, Learning & Assessment

• Computer-Assisted Language Learning

• Theoretical, Descriptive and/or Historical Linguistics

• Language Acquisition (L1, L2 & additional languages)

• (Critical) Discourse Analysis

We welcome abstracts for presentations in any of the following formats:

• 20-minute paper, with 5 minutes for questions and discussion

• A thematic panel or round-table discussion to include 3-4 contributors

• Poster presentation

Abstracts that specifically address the conference theme will be particularly welcome. Irish-language presentations will also be welcome, as will abstracts from postgraduate students and early career researchers.

Please submit your abstract HERE.

Submission deadline: 30 June, 2025

Acceptance notification: Approximately 31 August, 2025