Co-host: Department of English Instruction, National Tsing Hua University
Date: March 5–6, 2026
Venue: Room 416, College of Education Building, National Tsing Hua University (main campus)
Format: HyFlex (On-site and Online)
Theme 1: ELF, Conversation Analysis, Multimodal Interaction, Intercultural Communication
Theme 2: Assistive Language tools, Generative AI, Knowledge, Concepts, Vocabulary and its Structure
Theme 3: Linguistic Landscape, Language Contact, Interpretation and Translation, Intercultural Dialogue, Language and Learning ∙ Language Learning
Important Notice: The program is nearly full. Depending on the number of submissions, the start time may be moved earlier, or the presentation time for each general presentation may be shortened (30 minutes to 25 minutes).
Organizing Committee
Technical Committee on Thought and Language (TL)
Chair: Yasushi Tsubota (Kyoto Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair: Etsuko Yoshida (Univ. of Shiga Prefecture), Yasuhiro Katagiri (Future Univ. Hakodate)
Secretary: Kazuhiro Takeuchi (Osaka Electro-Comm. Univ.), Nobuyuki Jincho (Miidas)
Assistant: Hiroaki Yamada (Sci Tokyo), Akio Shimogori (Hakodate-ct)
Local Organizing Committee
Hosted by: National Tsing Hua University, Department of English Instruction
Local Chair: Li-Tang Yu (National Tsing Hua University)
Organizing Co-Chair: Han-Chun Huang (National Tsing Hua University)
Conference Secretary: Hsin-Ju Lin (National Tsing Hua University)