Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to welcome you to the Fifth International Language-for-All Conference (LfAC’26), which will take place on October 22–23, 2026, at Çukurova University in Adana, Türkiye.
Centred on the theme “Social Justice: Language, Equity, Voice, and Empowerment,” the conference brings together scholars, educators, and practitioners working in language education, linguistics, literary studies, translation and interpretation studies, and cultural studies to examine how linguistic, literary, and cultural practices relate to questions of power, knowledge, ideology, and social inequality.
While the conference welcomes interdisciplinary perspectives, it equally values discipline-specific research grounded in the theoretical, methodological, and analytical traditions of each field. Particular emphasis is placed on critical and ethical inquiries into equity, inclusion, representation, and voice, as well as on how language, literature, and translation engage with issues such as migration, multilingualism, marginalisation, identity, and access across different social, cultural, and institutional contexts.
The fields of study include the following:
1. Language Education for Equity and Inclusion
2. Teacher Education and Professional Ethics
3. Literature, Voice, and Representation
4. Literature, Memory, and Historical Consciousness
5. Literature in Language Education
6. Language, Power, and Social Justice
7. Sociolinguistics
8. Global Englishes and Linguistic Justice
9. Critical Discourse and Applied Linguistics
10. Digital Discourses and Inequality
11. Translation, Power, and Ethics
12. Cultural Studies and Language Ideologies
13. Language, Identity, and Intersectionality
14. Language, Migration, and Mobility
We are honoured to host Prof. Dr. Encarnación Gutiérez Rodriguez (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Keuleers (Tilburg University), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Deniz Ortaçtepe Hart (University of Glasgow), and Dr. Samantha Curle (University of Bath) as keynote speakers at LfAC’26.
All accepted abstracts will be published online with an ISBN as The Fifth International Language-for-All Conference: Book of Abstracts.
Selected full papers will also be considered for publication as research articles in a special issue of OMNIALANG: International Journal of Language Continuum. Acceptance to the conference does not guarantee publication. All submissions will be subject to the journal’s independent double-blind peer-review and editorial evaluation processes, in accordance with its publication standards.
You can visit the event website to submit your abstract. For more information, please visit the conference website or contact us at lfac@cu.edu.tr.
