2-4 October 2026, Montréal

SLRF 2026
Language teachers and researchers without borders

The Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) is an internationally recognized conference that brings together second language acquisition (SLA) researchers from around the world.

This is one of the leading SLA conferences in North America, providing a venue where established researchers as well as graduate students can present their work on a wide variety of theoretical and empirical issues in SLA, including cognitive, linguistic and sociolinguistic research conducted both in the laboratory and in the classroom.

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This year, the University of Montréal is hosting SLRF in collaboration with MonISLA!

When? 2–4 October 2026

Where? Montreal

Conference theme: Language teachers and researchers without borders

Plenary Speakers

Professor of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University

Luke Plonsky

Luke Plonsky, professor of applied linguistics at Northern Arizona University, is the author of over 100 publications and editor of renowned scientific journals. He is also an honorary professor at St. Andrews and a former Fulbright scholar.

Professor at Bishop's University in Quebec and Canada Research Chair in Integrated Plurilingual Teaching and Learning.

Sunny Man Chu Lau

Dr. Sunny Man Chu Lau, Canada Research Chair in Integrated Multilingual Education, is a pioneer in translanguaging pedagogy and participatory action research.

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Associate professor in the Faculty of International Research and Education at Waseda University

Yuichi Suzuki

Yuichi Suzuki is an associate professor in the Faculty of International Research and Education at Waseda University. He serves as an Associate Editor for Language Learning. His research focuses on the interface between theory and practice in instructed SLA and language education.

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Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the Université du Québec à Montréal

Daphnée Simard

Daphnée Simard is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her research interests include the role of individual cognitive and affective variables, as well as reflection about language in second language acquisition among various populations (children and adults).

Professor in the Department of Language Education at the Université du Québec à Montréal

Véronique Fortier

Véronique Fortier is a professor in the Department of language education at the Université du Québec à Montréal. The focus of her research is on the teaching of French as a second language to adult learners who are developing their literacy skills

Associate professor of applied linguistics at Georgetown University

Lara Bryfonski

Lara Bryfonski is an applied linguist and associate professor at Georgetown University where she researches second language acquisition and language teaching with a special focus on task-based language teaching (TBLT) and teacher education.

Assistant professor of English Philology at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Bianca M. Sandu

Bianca M. Sandu is an assistant professor of English Philology at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Spain. Her research interests include language learning motivation and social action, lexical availability and semantic networks, and bilingual education.

Assistant professor in Language Education and Director of Research Methods in Education at the University of Edinburgh

Sal Consoli

Sal Consoli is an assistant professor in Language Education and Director of Research Methods in Education at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include the psychology of language education and internationalisation of education.

Call for proposals - closed

Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal!

Authors will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of their proposal by the end of May 2026.

Thank you to our reviewers!

Eihab Abu-Rabiah

Esther Airemionkhale

Melike Akay

Yuto Aki

Mastoor Al-Kaboody

Kholoud Al-Thubaiti

Dilara Avci

Aamir Aziz

Colleen Balukas

Joe Barcroft

Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig

Daniel Batten

David Beard

Suzie Beaulieu

Nancy Bell

Nicholas Blaker

Harriet Bowden

Melissa Bowles

Josh Buffington

Yuko Butler

Eva Caltabellotta

Dilay Candan

Kübra Çekmegeli

Lourdes Cerezo

Letizia Cerqueglini

Vatcharit (Pond) Chantajinda

Yanbing Chen

Zhizi Chen

Carlo Cinaglia

Llorenç Comajoan-Colomé

Viviana Cortes

Matt Coss

Robin Couture-Matte

Jessica Cox

Bill Crawford

Dustin Crowther

Ian Cunnings

Priya M. Dabak

Yi Dai

Caroline Dault

Vanessa De Wilde

Ellen Deemer Pérez

Dilara Dikilitas

Melissa Dockrill Garrett

Isabelle Drewelow

Shannon Dunn

Rachelle Dutil

Soodeh Eghtesad

Seda Eickhoff

Eduardo Faingold

Shaohua Fang

Julieta Fernandez

Véronique Fortier

Natalia Fullana

Alison Gabriele

Muriel Gallego

Siyi Gao

Zihan Gao

Mikel Gartziarena

Joseph Garcia

Lidia Gault

Julia Goetze

Gisela Granena

Bethany Gray

Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes

Megumi Hamada

Florian Hameau

Elizabet Hanks

Brett Hashimoto

Jon Havenhill

Rachel Hayes-Harb

Shanshan He

Teresa Hernandez-Gonzalez

Julia Herschensohn

Jeffrey Holliday

AJ Holmberg

Christian Holmberg Sjöling

D. Eric Holt

Holger Hopp

Jingying Hu

Yuhang Hu

Ho-Hsin Huang

Amanda Huensch

Bronson Hui

Tania Ionin

Daniel Jackson

Scott Jarvis

Jill Jegerski

Heon Jeon

Ruirui Jia

Ziyu Jiang

Zhouhan Jin

Sanghee Kang

Eva Kartchava

Kelly Kendro

Kristen Kennedy Terry

Yulia Khoruzhaya

Tali Kigel

Sukyung Kim

Jeungeun (Claudia) Kim

Takayuki Kimura

Shaun Ko

Natalie Koval

Folkert Kuiken

Tove Larsson

Tania Leal

Meng-Hsun Lee

Jongbong Lee

Sak Lee

Yuyun Lei

Ronald Leow

Julian Levine

Wen Li

Xiaoying Liles

Hsuan-Ying Liu

Ares Llop

Shawn Loewen

Naila Akram M. Akram

Fanny Macé

Sunny Man Chu Lau

Vicente Mari Mangilaya II

Abbas Mansouri

Nausica Marcos Miguel

Katherine Martin

Alyssa Martoccio

Janet McDonald

Kim McDonough

Kevin McManus

Gabriel Michaud

Ryan Miller

Immaculada Miralpeix

William Morgan

Kara Morgan-Short

Nilima Mow

Christopher Nicklin

Hitoshi Nishizawa

Sanshiroh Ogawa

Yuichi Ono

Hande Ozdemir

Nick Pandža

Mostafa Papi

Pierre-Luc Paquet

Quy Pham

Rachel Pinnow

Luke Plonsky

Rabail Qayyum

Aicha Rahal

Raihan Rahman

Andrea Revesz

Vanessa Revheim Cunha

Guillermo Rodriguez

Ute Roemer-Barron

Thomas Rowley

Hyeran Ryu

Nuria Sagarra

Cristina Sanz

Masatoshi Sato

Sarah Schaech

Lauren Schellenberg

Katharina Schuhmann

Ana Schwartz

Bonnie D. Schwartz

Raquel Serrano

Gyu-Ho Shin

Rachel Shively

Daphnée Simard

Suhad Sonbul

Patti Spinner

Scott Sterling

Ekaterina Sudina

Hanzhong Sun

Gretchen Sunderman

Pia Sundqvist

Hakyung Sung

Mireia Toda Cosi

Ebru Turker

Tetiana Tytko

Daniel Walter

YungWei Wang

Jue Wang

Sara Weigle

Lydia White

Fuyun Wu

Detong Xia

Jialin Yan

Akifumi Yanagisawa

Shanshan Yang

Katherine Yaw

Wei Yi

Yucel Yilmaz

Ying Zhang

Shujing Zhao

Yiming Zhu

Jingyuan Zhuang

Nicole Ziegler

Caleb Zilmer

Jana Živanović

Organizing Team

Co-chairs:
Sara Abi Hanna: Master of Arts candidate – University of Montreal
Lina Helali: PhD candidate – University of Montreal
Emanuelle Silva: PhD candidate – University of Montreal

Lauren Schellenberg: PhD candidate - McGill University

Volunteers:
Rita Andraous: PhD candidate – Concordia University
Kelsey Ulrich-Verslycken: PhD candidate – Carleton University
Sarah Landridge: PhD candidate – Carleton University

Ingrid Jasor: PhD candidate - Université du Québec à Montréal

Faculty advisors:

Gabriel Michaud: Associate professor - University of Montreal

Masatoshi Sato: Professor - Universidad Andrés Bello

Pierre-Luc Paquet: Assistant professor - University of Montreal

We are grateful for support from

MonISLA

Montreal Institute for Second Language Acquisition