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Should you do a replication (same data) or reproduction (different data)? Reproduction - if possible - is much easier and can inform replication attempts. Even without data, reproducibility can be assessed (eg via preregistrations). Here is our handbook's decision tree:
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We are excited to celebrate the 50th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 50)! Join us and honor this milestone year.

Location: 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Find more information at www.bu.edu/bucld

#BUCLD #BUCLD50 #BostonUniversity #LanguageDevelopment

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max

Special Issue 2027 - Call for Proposals Special Issue of Studies in Second Language Acquisition, July 2027 Call for Proposals Studies in Second Language Acquisition (SSLA) is now entertaining proposals for the thematic issue of Volume 49:3...

Call for proposals: Special Issue of Studies in Second #Language #Acquisition, July 2027.

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#linguistics #LangSky #LingSky

The full program for our hybrid symposium on the quan/qual divide in applied linguistics is now available. October 17 - no fees or preregistration. Luke Plonsky and Bethany Gray are giving keynotes along with nine other talks and a panel discussion. corpus.cal.msu.edu/1052-2/

PhD student in Linguistics, sign language The Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University conducts research and offers education in a number of areas such as child language development, computational linguistics, general linguistics, ph

🚨 Open PhD position in sign language #linguistics 🚨

The focus should be on the structure of signed languages, or connect to other research profiles at the department (e.g. computational linguistics, acquisition, typology, multilingualism)

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Deadline: 15 October 2025

Jobs: English; Neurolinguistics: Open Rank (Assistant, Associate, or Full), University of South Carolina

Open rank position in #linguistics at Rice.

💡 The idea that children drive language change is widely accepted — but does it hold up?

New research co-authored by Dr Vera Kempe challenges this view, showing little evidence that child-led innovations spread through communities.

Read more: www.mpi.nl/publications...

Deadline 15 Oct: Postdoc, Multilingualism and Language Learning (w/ Ø. Vangsnes, M. Anderssen), Center for Language, Brain and Learning, UiT The Arctic University of Norway www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

SLRF 2025 - Registration & Venue Registration for SLRF 2025 is now live!

We look forward to welcoming SLRF attendees to Flagstaff in 3 short weeks! If you're registered, check your email for a link to our conference Discord—and if you're not, what are you waiting for? Save your spot at sites.google.com/nau.edu/slrf...

Confs: 14th International Conference of Construction Grammar

📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026

Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods

Stay tuned for updates!

✨ New OASIS Summary! ✨

▶️How prior knowledge affects language learning. A close replication study

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New issue of Studies in Second Language Acquisition now available

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#SSLA #appliedlinguistics #LangSky

The replication studies are not an optional extra – they are an essential part of the methodological procedure we use to make scientific claims. That is also why replications should be done way more often than they are. For more, see lakens.github.io/statistical_... 4/end

Syllabi Syllabi in Applied Linguistics Series Editors: Benjamin Kremmel University of Innsbruck) & Paula Winke (Michigan State University) While initiatives and efforts to foster openness and transparency in ...

Applied #Linguistics Press is launching a new series titled: #Syllabi in Applied Linguistics. This #OA series collects and overviews syllabus descriptions for different staple courses in applied linguistics and #language #teaching. More here: www.appliedlinguisticspress.org/home/series/...

Do open access plain-language summaries increase engagement with research? In a range of academic scholarship communities, the debate over the efficacy and impact of open access publishing has intensified. This discourse is strong in [language education and applied linguisti...

Open access + OASIS plain-language summaries = more views, downloads & citations — a practical path to more inclusive, impactful research! doi.org/10.1515/appl...

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🏆 #SSLA is ranked #1 in the Language and Linguistics category of Google Scholar's 2025 metrics. Congratulations to all authors, reviewers, and the editorial team for making the journal what is it today!

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Great to see this initiative, a call for researchers, educators, and practitioners in second #language (#L2) studies to review a set of ethics and accountability guidelines for #qualitative research #ResearchMethods #lingsky #langsky

New article in FLA: "Does order of instruction matter? A language program intervention for preterite-imperfect learning." TL;DR for Spanish teachers: changing the order of teaching the preterite-imperfect did NOT make a difference for students' mastery of the tenses. doi.org/10.1111/flan...

New paper: Comparing #lab-based and #remote data collection methods in second #language acquisition research. A close #replication study (McManus et al., in Research Methods in Applied #Linguistics) authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYuB9sT3h... #langsky #lingsky #researchmethods #online

Imagine if all the money academics pour into OA fees at for-profit publishing corporations went instead to academic societies, which exist to support science; or to university presses, which exist to support academia

<em>Language Learning</em> | Language Learning Research Club Journal | Wiley Online Library A one-page Accessible Summary of this article in nontechnical language is freely available in the Supporting Information online and at https://oasis-database.org

Very happy that our #replication study of Ellis and Sagarra (2010), a seminal study in the field, is now published!

Revisiting #Blocking Effects in Second #Language #Learning: A Close Replication of Ellis and Sagarra (2010b)
doi.org/10.1111/lang...

We have two permanent lectureships currently available at York - home and overseas applicants are welcome! Please share: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

The #quantitative / #qualitative divide in applied #linguistics: Call for papers

Two new JESLA roles: Assistant Editor and Marketing Assistant

Call for expression of interest, deadline 10 October 2025

Details on our website:
www.eurosla.org/new-jesla-ro...

Call for Special Issue abstracts is now open! The Language Testing Special Issue theme of 2027 is “Language Assessment and Policy”. Abstract submission deadline: October 1, 2025. journals.sagepub.com/page/ltj/spe...

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Enjoying #ISB15 and thinking about where to submit your next article? SSLA is the #1 ranked Language and Linguistics journal on Google Scholar!

Consider submitting your research: cup.org/43TvayT

McCallum_etal_2025 Research Cultures in Applied Linguistics and TESOL Lee McCallum, Dara Tafazoli, & Ali H. Al-Hoorie (Eds.) 2025

New #OpenAccess book, from Applied Linguistics Press: Research Cultures in #AppliedLinguistics and #TESOL (McCallum et al, 2025): www.appliedlinguisticspress.org/home/catalog...