<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-align-left">Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 – LCR 2026</h2> <h4><span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;"><strong>The 8th Learner Corpus Research Conference<br></strong>to be held in <strong>Prague </strong>16–19 September, 2026<br></span></h4> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; margin-bottom: 14.0pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"> </p> <h5 class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; margin-bottom: 14.0pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"> <strong><span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">First Call for Papers opens on 16 November 2025</span></strong></h5> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; margin-bottom: 14.0pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"> <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">Organizers: Tomáš Gráf, Barbora Bulantová, Kryštof Buchal, Alexandr Rosen, Radek Skarnitzl, Lanfen Huang, Kristián Centek, Daniela Marková</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; margin-bottom: 14.0pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"> <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;"><strong>Conference site:</strong> <a href="https://lcr2026.ff.cuni.cz">https://lcr2026.ff.cuni.cz</a></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; margin-bottom: 14.0pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"> <strong><span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">Key dates:<br>Submission deadline: </span></strong><span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">16 January 2026</span><strong><span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;"><br>Notification of acceptance: </span></strong><span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">16 March 2026<br><strong>Conference dates: </strong>17–19 September 2026<br><strong>Pre-conference workshops and PhD programme:</strong> 16 September 2026</span><strong><span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;"><br><br></span></strong> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; margin-bottom: 14.0pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"> <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">The Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026) will be held in the beautiful and historically rich city of </span><span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; font-weight: bold; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">Prague </span><span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">on </span><span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; font-weight: bold; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">16–19 September 2026</span><span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">. Organized biennially under the auspices of the Learner Corpus Association, the upcoming conference is hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. The event is co-organized by two of its constituent units: the Department of English Language and ELT Methodology and the Czech National Corpus.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; margin-bottom: 14.0pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"> <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">The conference, titled </span><span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">Forging the Future of Learner Corpus Research</span><span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">, reflects a dual awareness: of the field’s substantial legacy and of the pressing need to embrace emerging technological and methodological innovations. It also highlights the importance of identifying new directions and developing fresh perspectives in learner corpus studies.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; margin-bottom: 14.0pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"> <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">The conference theme resonates with the extensive experience and pioneering contributions of the Czech National Corpus, which has been shaping standards in corpus linguistics for over three decades. Moreover, the Faculty of Arts and its linguistics departments are deeply rooted in the tradition of the Prague Linguistic Circle, and they previously hosted the 38th ICAME conference in 2017.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; margin-bottom: 14.0pt; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"> <span lang="cs" style="font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-default-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-armenian-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-hebrew-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-arabic-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-currency-font-family: 'Open Sans'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #525b65; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #525B65; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; language: cs; mso-ansi-language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;">We warmly encourage all participants to contribute actively to discussions and to share their insights. We aim to foster a collegial and collaborative environment conducive to the advancement of learner corpus research. We look forward to welcoming you to Prague for a stimulating and inspiring gathering of researchers in the field.</span></p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-align-left">Call description </h2> <p>We welcome all contributions related to learner corpus research and strongly encourage authors to explore new directions, challenge existing paradigms, or apply innovative approaches to learner corpus data. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:</p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>Language for Academic and Specific Purposes</li> <li>Language Teaching, Assessment, and Testing</li> <li>Learner Corpus-Based SLA Studies</li> <li>Corpora as Pedagogical Resources</li> <li>Multimodal Learner Corpora</li> <li>Software Tools for Learner Corpus Analysis</li> <li>Corpus-Based Translation Studies</li> <li>English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI)</li> <li>English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)</li> <li>Data Mining and Exploratory Methods</li> <li>Statistical and Quantitative Approaches</li> <li>Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics</li> <li>NLP Applications in Learner Corpus Research</li> <li>Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency (CAF) Measures</li> </ul> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Presentation formats</h3> <p>We invite submissions for the following formats:</p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li><strong>Full paper</strong> (20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion)</li> <li><strong>Work in progress (WIP)</strong> report (10 minutes + 5 minutes discussion)</li> <li><strong>Corpus/Software demonstration</strong></li> <li><strong>Poster presentation</strong></li> <li><strong>Insight session </strong>(Insight sessions are intended primarily for PhD students and/or early-career researchers. The format allows for a 10-minute presentation followed by a 10-minute expert feedback follow-up. ) </li> </ul> <p>The WIP reports and posters are intended to present research still at a preliminary stage and on which researchers would like to get feedback.</p> <p><strong>The language of the conference is English.</strong></p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Abstract submission</h2> <p>We invite submissions of abstracts in the range of 500 words (excluding references) for presentations in one of the categories listed above.</p> <p>Please indicate the category of your submission (Full paper / WiP Report / Corpus / software demonstration / Poster presentation) at the beginning of your abstract.</p> <p>Abstracts should include:</p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>A <strong>clearly articulated research question</strong> and an explanation of its relevance to learner corpus research</li> <li>A brief overview of the <strong>research approach</strong>, <strong>data</strong>, and <strong>methods</strong> used</li> <li>A summary of the <strong>main results</strong> and their interpretation </li> </ul> <p>Submissions must be made via <a href="https://openreview.net/group?id=learnercorpusassociation.org/LCR/2026/Conference&referrer=%5BHomepage%5D(%2F)#tab-your-consoles">OpenReview</a> (registration necessary).</p> <p>The working language of the conference is English. Please do not include author names or institutional affiliations in the submitted abstract.</p> <p>For co-authored submissions, one author should register and upload the abstract, but each co-author must register individually for the conference. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="cs" style="font-family: Calibri; language: cs; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span> </p>
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