Conferences, study days, thematic schools and methodology workshops organised by the RéAL2 community.
27 eventsVariability(s) in acquisition L2
Variability(ies) in L2 acquisition JE RéAL2 University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès November 12-13, 2026 In the field of second language acquisition (AL2), research has reached consensus on the multitude of factors that come into …
View event →[Ecole d'été] Méthodes expérimentales en Acquisition des Langues Secondes
L’école d’été du Réseau REAL 2 sera consacrée cette année aux méthodes expérimentales en Acquisition de Langues Secondes. Elle présentera, de manière non exhaustive, un certain nombre de méthodes expérimentales contemporaines l…
View event →OACQUIL 2026: Voice recognition and automatic transcription
This workshop day is organized as part of the Thematic Network in Second Language Acquisition (RéAL2). It focuses on Tools for Acquiring Second Languages and this year particularly on voice recognition and automatic transcrip…
View event →IE GT Oral-written interface and biliteracy
Study days program RéAL2 thematic group - Oral-written interface and biliteracy, the November 13 and 14, 2025 Day 1 open to an audience of colleagues, doctoral and master students 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. 3 x 30 min presentatio…
View event →[GT Acquisition & didactics] "Dialoques acquisition-didactic of languages in guided environments"
For all information, see: https://real2nantes2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/4
View event →Methods & tools in L2 phonology-phonetics interactions 2025, 4-7 septembre 2025
Paris 8 University and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle are pleased to announce that the workshop/symposium Methods and Tools in L2 Phonology-Phonetics Interactions will take place in Paris at the SFL lab (CNRS & Paris 8), on S…
View event →Acquisition, processing and use of an L3/Ln: psycholinguistic, linguistic and pedagogical perspectives
The acquisition of a third (L3) or additional language (Ln) refers to the ongoing process of learning a new foreign language (FL) after one or more first (L1) and second languages (L2). It involves studying how an L3/Ln is lear…
View event →Acquisition of additional language by migrants
Over the past decades, the majority of research in second language acquisition has largely favored the profiles of learners from student mobility, that is to say young adults temporarily staying abroad, generally in an immersio…
View event →IE The dynamics of languages in bilingual individuals
“The dynamics of languages in the bilingual individual” May 21, 2025, UMR 7023, SFL, Pouchet Address: 59, rue Pouchet 75017 Paris, Room 159 and on video https://univ-paris8.zoom.us/j/97344922716?pwd=bc5CRPbAMSUIKPXOayaEw3iir4v2…
View event →Basic variety(ies) and initial stages in L2: a natural and universal route?
About 30 years ago, the comparative study of the L2 acquisitional pathways observed in adult migrants in the frame of the ESF project (Perdue 1993) identified the initial stages in the appropriation of a new language in a natur…
View event →[GT interface acquisition / didactics] Workshop on the contributions of didactics
The contributions of didactics to the understanding of teaching practices and their impact on the acquisition of second/foreign languages (online workshop) 1. Interactions in a guided context: between peers, with the teacher, t…
View event →Annual symposium: Acquisition, teaching and promotion of “non-majoritarian” varieties
This year's theme is the acquisition and teaching of “non-majoritarian” varieties. The European territory is the scene of widespread scenarios of multi- and plurilingualism, within which “majoritarian” languages (e.g. the offic…
View event →Summer School: Statistics in Second Language Research
This summer school will offer several workshops in statistics (statistical models, quantitative data analysis, experimental protocols, automatic data processing) aimed at PhD students and experienced researchers whose research …
View event →Grammar(s) and acquisition of L2: Approaches, trajectories, interfaces
The grammatical dimension of second language (L2) acquisition involves a multiplicity of theoretical and methodological approaches. Following the study days on phonology (2018 in Nantes), lexicon (2019 in Lyon) and pragmatics (…
View event →Workshop "Tooling Second Language Acquisition" - 4th edition
This new edition will focus on the tools used for the study of phonology as well as for automatically transcribing oral data, and will take the form of practical workshops. This day is intended for all members of the network, a…
View event →[Biannual Colloquium] Language contact and bi/plurilingual acquisition: diversity of situations, diversity of processes?
Organized by the Institute for Research in European Languages and Literatures (ILLE) from the University of Haute-Alsace in collaboration with the DyLis in situ Language Dynamics laboratory at the University of Rouen Language c…
View event →[JE] Acquisition of pragmatic competence in L2
The acquisition of pragmatic competence in L2 Annual ReAL2 study days at the University of Côte d’Azur, Saint Jean d’Angély campus Event website: https://pragl2.sciencesconf.org October 20-21, 2022 Call for posted papers The ac…
View event →[Thematic school] Biliteratian
Billiteracy thematic school: processes, methodologies and fields organized by the NeuroPsychoLinguistics Laboratory (LNPL) 1st thematic school of GIS RéAL2 28 hours of training, 7 international speakers Training in French and E…
View event →[Annual workshop] corpus tooling for second language acquisition - 3rd edition
3rd edition of the annual workshop “Corpus tools for second language acquisition”
View event →[I] From acquisition to didactic (and vice versa)
From acquisition to didactics (and vice versa) Sorbonne Nouvelle University & INALCO Description Work located at the interface of research in language acquisition (RAL) and language teaching (DDL) has been emerging in Franc…
View event →[Biannual Colloquium] Translinguistic influence: where are we today?
(Event initially planned for 2020) The term translinguistic influence (crosslinguistic influence) introduced by Michael Sharwood-Smith (1983) was proposed as an alternative to the term transfer in order to counter the behaviori…
View event →[Annual workshop] Tools for acquiring 2nd languages - 2020 edition
This day follows the workshop of the same name organized in October 2019 which covered: - on the choice of data collection methods in L2 acquisition, in relation to the research objectives; - on how this choice impacts the data…
View event →[I] Lexicon Acquisition
The status of lexical acquisition in Language Acquisition Research (LAL) over the last 50 years is curious: while it figures prominently in research on first language acquisition (L1 - in the context of learning to read, for ex…
View event →[Annual workshop] Second Language Acquisition Tools
This workshop focuses on tools for second language acquisition, therefore mainly aimed at doctoral students and young researchers (but not only!) to discuss methodologies and their impact on data format and the use of tools for…
View event →[JE] Sound dimension and acquisition of L2
We strongly encourage researchers, young researchers, teachers and doctoral students to participate in these ReAL2 days and therefore to send a presentation proposal (2 pages maximum) on one of the themes below (non-exhaustive …
View event →[Biannual Colloquium] Research Methodology in Second Language Acquisition and Learning
Generally speaking, researchers in the field of second language (L2) acquisition and learning share an interest in questions that relate to the way in which the learner constructs their interlanguage (what processes and mechani…
View event →[JE] Second Language Acquisition Network (REAL2) Study Days
These study days make it possible to launch the network and bring together as many colleagues as possible working in the field of second language acquisition. These first launch days of the network will be structured around pre…
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