​symposium on L2 interaction

​The 10th CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction will be held at Kyoto Women's University in Japan on 22-23 May, 2027.

 

Please submit an abstract (200 to 300 words in English) via this online form xx. 

 

The deadline for submissions is 1 January, 2027.

 

Each oral presentation will be allotted 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion. Presentations will be organized into thematic sessions, with a roundtable discussion among the presenters and participants following each block.

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Poster presentations will be take place during a dedication session. Posters offer more direct interaction with a smaller audience and can lead to greater feedback. 

 

All presentations should be based on the micro-analysis of recorded interaction in which at least one speaker is using a second language. While most presentations tend to use Conversation Analysis, we are also welcome researchers using other micro-level discourse analytic approaches. 

 

Presentations will be in English and will be held consecutively (not in parallel), so the total number of presentations is limited.

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You may be listed as a co-author on multiple presentations, but you can only be the first author on one.

 

Notification of acceptance will be made by mid-January, 2027.

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Papers will be more likely to be accepted if they:

• have a clear focus

• briefly outline the background to the data

• indicate the study's findings

• demonstrate a solid understanding of the research approach

• are free of language or formatting errors

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Accepted presenters (oral and poster) will be required to submit either an extended overview, including abstract, transcripts, and references, or an abstract plus transcripts for the  online proceedings by 1 March, 2027. In order to reduce waste, we ask presenters not to prepare hard-copy handouts. Refer to previous copies of the proceedings for examples.