Attitudes towards languages: Multilingualism, plurilingualism and language education for a democratic, just and sustainable world

The Irish Association for Applied Linguistics invites you to the 2026 Annual Conference at the University of Limerick.

The two-day conference will be packed with theoretical and empirical presentations, research posters and thematic panels in areas of Applied Linguistics related to the conference theme. These include:

Bilingualism

Multilingualism & Plurilingualism

Translanguaging

Interculturality

Language Policy & Language Planning

Language Education & Language Teaching, Learning and Assessment

Second Language Acquisition

Psychology of Language Learning

Pragmatics

Corpus Linguistics

Historical Linguistics

Translation & Interpreting

We will also host theAILA-Europe Junior Researchers Meeting (JRM) (https://aila.info/about/regionalization/aila-europe/meetings/), two internationally recognised plenary speakers and the launch of TEANGA (https://journal.iraal.ie/index.php/teanga).

The Conference Dinner will take place at Castletroy Park Hotel, within walking distance of the campus. Spaces are limited, so please book your place when registering for the conference.

For more information about the conference, including accommodation and access, please check the conference website below:

https://sites.google.com/view/iraal2026/

Description supplied by the event organiser.