Call for Papers

The International Association for Task-Based Language Teaching (IATBLT) invites you to submit for its next international conference. The 2025 TBLT organizing committee is looking forward to welcoming you to the 11th International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching in Groningen, the Netherlands. The conference will be a face-to face event. However, (limited) remote/online attendance and/or streaming of plenaries will become available in due course.

From 2 to 4 April 2025, the conference will bring together researchers and practitioners from all around the world and in every stage of their career. Together, we will exchange and discuss research results, teaching practices and the most innovative approaches to TBLT. In the center of the third happiest city in Europe, the city of Groningen, the conference will give us the opportunity to bring further theories and thoughts that are at the core of TBLT. We look forward to reflecting on the contribution of technology in education nowadays and in the future, which is captured in the title of the conference: “ Task- Based Leveraging of Technology”.

The conference will focus on well-established TBLT approaches in second and foreign language classrooms as well as practical applications of TBLT in classrooms around the world. The plenary speakers, invited colloquia and workshops will touch on different aspects of (technology-mediated) TBLT, such as intelligent CALL, virtual reality and virtual exchange, teacher training, inclusive TBLT, assessment and the practicalities of sharing TBLT insights with TBLT practice.

Research-based, theory-driven and hands-on contributions to the advancement of TBLT are welcomed.

Relevant themes include but are not limited to:

• Tasks in SLA
• Tasks in (language) education
• Task-based assessment
• Theoretical perspectives on TBLT
• Sociocultural aspects of TBLT
• Task features, complexity, design
• TBLT methodology
• TBLT implementation and innovations
• Technology-mediated TBLT
• Tasks and the role of the learner
• The role of the teacher and TBLT-based teacher education
• Needs analysis in TBLT
• Evaluating task-based instruction, materials, and programs
• AI and Tasks

We invite submissions for individual papers, show-and-tell presentations and posters. Submissions should include:

• title (15 words maximum)
• abstract (300 words maximum, excluding references)
• brief summary of the abstract for the conference program (50 words maximum)

Individual papers

Individual papers should report on original research or make a thought-provoking theoretical contribution to the field. Research proposals should provide explicit information on the research design. Paper presentations will be 30 minutes (20-minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion).

Show-and-tell presentations

Show-and-tell presentations are intended for practitioners and researchers to show a video or present task-based materials and approaches in a brief, concrete, and visually appealing way. The duration of each show-and-tell presentation is 10 minutes, followed by a 5-minute discussion.

Posters

Poster presentations are intended for face-to-face discussions of research. Practitioners and researchers are invited to present their research or teaching approaches in a one-on-one or small-group setting. The duration of each poster session is 1.5 hours, and the presenters are encouraged to be present for the duration of their scheduled time.

All proposals should be submitted by May 31th 2024

(you must create a linguist list account to submit).

Each participant may submit one abstract in authorship and a second one in co-authorship. An invited workshop/colloquium convenor can also present at the workshop/colloquium or in any other presentation modality.

Evaluation of proposals

All submissions will be peer-reviewed on the basis of the following criteria:

• Significance
• Clarity and coherence of argumentation
• Originality
• Research Design / Conceptual Framework

Language policy

The working language of the conference is English, but contributions in other languages will also be considered. PowerPoints and other visual materials should be in English.

Further information

• For IATBLT members, we aim to establish possibilities to attend a live stream of a restricted set of presentations.
• Scholars from countries that are not listed as “high income” on the World bank list will benefit from a reduced registration fee (TBA). Check how your country of affiliation is listed.
• Underrepresented Scholar Award: to be announced