IAM L3 CONFERENCE 2026: THE 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THIRD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND MULTILINGUALISM
PROGRAM

Days: Wednesday, September 2nd Thursday, September 3rd Friday, September 4th Saturday, September 5th

Wednesday, September 2nd

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14:00-15:30 Session 2A: [PhD Workshop]
Location: 214
14:00
Cross-language orthographic and phonological activation during L3 word recognition in Tibetan–Chinese–English trilinguals (abstract)
14:30
Alveolar Tap and Trill Consonant Perception and Production by L1-Mandarin L2-English Speakers (abstract)
15:00
Cross-linguistic Influences on the Production of L3 Monophthongs: Evidence from L1 Uyghur- L2 Chinese- L3 English Trilinguals (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session 2B: [PhD Workshop]
Location: 215
14:00
The Role of Affective Factors in Translanguaging Pedagogy: A Case from a Chinese EMI Writing Classroom (abstract)
14:30
L2 influence on L3 word recognition across proficiency levels: the role of modality and cross-linguistic similarity (abstract)
15:00
“Well, I didn't think I would understand what I ultimately did understand, but I actually thought it was pretty cool to see that, with the, well, different languages.” - Self-Efficacy and Task Engagement in a Plurilingual Mystery Escape (abstract)
15:30-16:00Coffee Break [PhD Workshop]
16:00-17:00 Session 3A: [PhD Workshop]
Location: 214
16:00
Task Demands Modulate Inhibitory Control in Trilingual Comprehension:evidence from a novel task (abstract)
16:30
Multilingual cognition: Accented speech processing and attention allocation (abstract)
16:00-17:00 Session 3B: [PhD Workshop]
Location: 215
16:00
Motivation and Emotion in Multilingual Language Learning: A Longitudinal Study of Tibetan English Majors (abstract)
16:30
Cognitive Retrospective Transfer of L3 to L2 in Article Context Among Native Turkish Speakers (abstract)
17:00
Transitions in multilingual settings: English learning as lived experience (abstract)
Thursday, September 3rd

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11:00-11:30Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Session 6A: Language Teaching, Pedagogy & Assessment
Location: Aula
11:30
Language teachers’ mindsets about cross-linguistic collaboration: Insights from the LATECO project (abstract)
12:00
Towards multilingual pedagogical literacy (abstract)
12:30
Multilingualism as a resource, not a threat: teachers beliefs in the Basque minority-language education context (abstract)
11:30-13:00 Session 6B: Cognition & Individual Differences
Location: 213
11:30
Modern Greek at Eight: Assessing Multilingualism in Young Learners (abstract)
12:00
Balancing the multilingual mind: How language attitudes shape processing across languages (abstract)
12:30
The psychology of multilingualism: Language proficiency predicts personality traits (abstract)
11:30-13:00 Session 6C: Syntax, Morphosyntax & Semantics
Location: 214
11:30
L3 English Wh-Questions among Moroccan Arabic-French Learners: An Optimality Theoretic Account (abstract)
12:00
The Initial State of Third Language Acquisition: How Ab Initio Learners Produce Sentences in an Unknown L3 (abstract)
12:30
Reverse Crosslinguistic Influence: Effects of L3 Portuguese on Chinese Learners’ Sensitivity to English Adverb Placement (abstract)
11:30-13:00 Session 6D: Sociolinguistics & Linguistic Diversity
Location: 215
11:30
Representation and revitalisation: language attitudes, digital media, and the future of minority languages across diverse multilingual contexts (abstract)
12:00
L3 Acquisition in Forced Immersion: A Social Network Analysis of Ukrainian Refugees Learning Polish (abstract)
12:30
Literacy Asymmetries in Migration Contexts: A Critical Review of CEFR Alignment for PALOP Speakers (abstract)
13:00-14:30Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 Session 7A: Language Teaching, Pedagogy & Assessment
Location: Aula
14:30
Teacher Awareness of Classroom Multilingualism: Insights from Language Portraits (abstract)
15:00
Teacher and Classroom Composition Factors Associated with Multilingual Pedagogy: Attitudes, Teacher Multilingual Identity Beliefs, and Teaching Practices of Foreign Language Teachers in EFL Classrooms in Lower Saxony (Germany) (abstract)
15:30
Monitoring the writing process in multilinguals. An analysis of pauses and online-revisions in L1, L2, and L3 (abstract)
14:30-16:00 Session 7B: Cognition & Individual Differences
Location: 213
14:30
Retired language learners and their motivation for multilingual development (abstract)
15:00
Challenges and potentialities in multilingual classroom contexts when teaching Portuguese as a foreign language: an analysis of the dominant language constellation (abstract)
15:30
Examining simultaneous language and literacy development in trilingual immigrant high-school students: A confluence of individual variation, demographic factors, pedagogy, beliefs and expectations (abstract)
14:30-16:00 Session 7C: Syntax, Morphosyntax & Semantics
Location: 214
14:30
Reverse CLI under immersion: Ukrainian children acquiring L3 Polish and L3 Czech (abstract)
15:00
Cross-Linguistic Influence in English as a Third Language among Child Heritage Speakers in Norway (abstract)
15:30
Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of L3 Norwegian ab initio: An eye-tracking study (abstract)
14:30-16:00 Session 7D: Phonetics & Phonology
Location: 215
14:30
Producing phonology out of an ongoing consonant merger: L1 Chongqing Mandarin, L2 Standard Mandarin, and L3 English (abstract)
15:00
An investigation of phonological crosslinguistic influence in bilingual and trilingual learners of an artificial language (abstract)
15:30
L3 Phonological Transfer from a Stratified Source: Psycholinguistic Evidence from an Indigenous Trilingual Community (abstract)
16:00-16:30Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Session 8A: Language Teaching, Pedagogy & Assessment
Location: Aula
16:30
Designing Pedagogical Materials for the Multilingual English Classroom: A Case for Teacher Agency (abstract)
17:00
Learning and teaching across language subjects: Students’, teachers’, and researchers’ perspectives (abstract)
17:30
Getting ready for reform: Design principles for a multilingual language teaching approach (abstract)
16:30-18:00 Session 8B: Cognition & Individual Differences
Location: 213
16:30
Metalinguistic knowledge and crosslinguistic influence in L3 Norwegian (abstract)
17:00
When Gender Effects Fade: How a Genderless L3 Restructures Multilingual Cognition (abstract)
17:30
Motion Event Construal on Third Language Acquisition: Chinese Learners of German as an L3 (abstract)
16:30-18:00 Session 8C: Syntax, Morphosyntax & Semantics
Location: 214
16:30
Multilingual Development Is Not Transfer: The Theory of Grammatical Mapping in L3 Acquisition (abstract)
17:00
The effect of previously learnt languages on agreement computation in multilinguals: Evidence from NP production in L3/Ln Danish (abstract)
17:30
The Role of Structural Similarity and Dominance in L3 Aspect Processing: Insights from Eye-Tracking (abstract)
16:30-18:00 Session 8D: Phonetics & Phonology
Location: 215
16:30
Development of perception and production of L2 and L3 coda obstruents: A dense data case study (abstract)
17:00
Current statistical approaches to L3 VOT studies are unable to detect individual differences in CLI (abstract)
17:30
Cognates: enemies or allies? (abstract)
Friday, September 4th

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10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:30 Session 10A: Language Teaching, Pedagogy & Assessment
Location: Aula
10:30
When Languages Diverge: Asymmetric Effects of Lingua Franca, Host Language, and Mother Tongues on Intercultural Adjustment — A Mixed‑Methods Longitudinal Study (abstract)
11:00
L3 English Trajectories in Heritage Bilingual Students (abstract)
11:30
Between Openness and Implementation: Teachers’ Plurilingual Awareness and Teaching Practices in Linguistically Diverse Adult Classrooms (abstract)
12:00
Teacher Preparedness for Translanguaging in L3 English Classrooms: Evidence from a Qualitative Intervention Study with Pre-service and In-service Teachers (abstract)
10:30-12:30 Session 10B: Lexicon, Pragmatics & Interaction
Location: 213
10:30
Gender Differences in Multilingual Pragmatic Production: Requests in Catalan, Spanish, and English by Young Learners (abstract)
11:00
How do language attitudes influence multilingual pragmatic awareness? (abstract)
11:30
Cross-linguistic Influence in the Early Acquisition of German as a Third Language (abstract)
12:00
Lexical access in English as L3: a study with multilinguals in Brazil (abstract)
10:30-12:30 Session 10C: Psycholinguistics & Language Processing
Location: 214
10:30
Exploring language control indices in multilingual speakers of languages of high versus low proximity (abstract)
11:00
L3 Acquisition Provides a Multilingual Advantage for L2 in Offline, not Online, Measures (abstract)
11:30
Lexical overlap in the multilingual mind: Pupillometric evidence from L2 vs. L3 learners (abstract)
12:00
Amount of Exposure, Self-Reported Proficiency, and Comfort Levels in Trilingual Children (abstract)
12:30-13:30Lunch Break
13:30-14:30 Session 11: Poster Session
Examining support for multilingualism: An arts-based approach at a Canadian School for the Deaf (abstract)
MULTILINGUALISM FROM THE CLASSROOM:A UNIVERSITIES INITIATIVE IN SOUTH AFRICA (abstract)
Researching Translingual Writing in a Migration Context: Methodological Insights from a Qualitative Case Study (abstract)
L2 English Onset Cluster Perception: Comparing L1 Mandarin and Spanish Acquisition of English Phonotactics (abstract)
The roles of previously acquired languages in L3 semantic access viewed through a crosslanguage repetition priming task (abstract)
Trilingualism in Transnational Displacement: Exploring Language Policies of Asylum-Seeking Children in Transit (abstract)
Multilingual word production: Exploring cross-linguistic influence during language switching in Afrikaans-English-Dutch speakers (abstract)
Engaging pre-service teachers with their multilingual identities using dominant language constellation artworks (abstract)
The role of reading fluency and phonological awareness in online cognate processing: Eye-movement evidence from child EFL learners (abstract)
Investigating short term effects of translation on cognitive functions in multilingual speakers (abstract)
Phonological Abilities in Multilingual EFL Contexts: A Cross-National Analysis of Subskill Differentiation (abstract)
Can the brain tell us more? EEG insights into vowel auditory discrimination in multilingual speakers (abstract)
Does multilingualism help when learning L2/L3 words during writing with digital tools? (abstract)
Preference for Manner vs. Path in L3 English: Evidence from Multilingual English as L3 Learners (abstract)
Translanguaging during consultations: maximising multilingual language repertoires in a South African university (abstract)
Exploring Demotivation in Thai Undergraduate Students’ L3 Learning: A Control–Value Perspective (abstract)
No moral Foreign Language Effect beyond the L2 (abstract)
14:30-16:30 Session 12A: Language Teaching, Pedagogy & Assessment
Location: Aula
14:30
“We just had that in German and English, that worked out quite well.”: L3-investment and multilingual portfolios in the French language classroom in Germany (abstract)
15:00
The underlying mechanisms of bilingual effects in L3 learning among Mongolian-Mandarin bilingual children (abstract)
15:30
The effect of bilingualism on L3 learning: A longitudinal study from kindergarten to the end of primary school (abstract)
16:00
Multilingualism and Inclusive Pedagogies in Content-Based Language Teacher Education: Insights from Pre-Service Teachers in Norway (abstract)
14:30-16:30 Session 12B: Lexicon, Pragmatics & Interaction
Location: 213
14:30
Comparing trilinguals', bilinguals', and monolinguals' vocabulary size: Single-Language versus Conceptual Assessment (abstract)
15:00
Vocabulary learning while writing with digital tools: An experimental study. (abstract)
15:30
The learning potential of subtitled English audiovisual material: an eye-tracking study of multilinguals vs. bilinguals (abstract)
16:00
Co-designing Functional Multilingual Reading Assessment for Learning through pedagogical translanguaging: case studies of teacher-researcher collaboration in the Netherlands and Australia (abstract)
14:30-16:30 Session 12C: Psycholinguistics & Language Processing
Location: 214
14:30
Tacit and explicit crosslinguistic awareness: Convergence and dissociation in multilingual lexical use (abstract)
15:00
When L3 gains are not enough: L2 English attrition and learner profiles in L3 Japanese acquisition (abstract)
15:30
Adapting to within-language variability in L3 German: Evidence from pupillometry in L1 Chinese listeners (abstract)
16:00
The Variable Bilingual Advantage (abstract)
16:30-16:45Coffee Break
Saturday, September 5th

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10:30-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-13:00 Session 14A: Language Teaching, Pedagogy & Assessment
Location: Aula
11:00
Bilingual Primary Programs for Turkish- and Arabic-Speaking Children: Exploring English and German Language Learning (abstract)
11:30
Embracing the Power of Diversity: Leveraging Multilingualism and Social Diversity in Bilingual Education (abstract)
12:00
Language Learning Strategy Preferences among Older Multilingual Learners (abstract)
12:30
Materialising Multilingualism: Pupils’ Representations of Language Use and Learning Spaces (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 14B: Sociolinguistics & Linguistic Diversity
Location: 213
11:00
MULTILINGUAL IDENTITIES IN LADIN MINORITY SPEAKERS IN SOUTH TYROL (abstract)
11:30
Multilingual Parenting One Meme at a Time (abstract)
12:00
Debating Multilingually: The Dynamics and Effects of Language Choices in Swiss Politics (abstract)
12:30
Beyond the classroom: multilingualism through the eyes of language teachers in Quebec (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 14C: Syntax, morphosyntax and semantics
Location: 214
11:00
Negation in L3 French (abstract)
11:30
Regressive cross-linguistic influence as co-activation: Can L3 Scandinavian trigger V2 in L2 English? (abstract)
12:00
L3 acquisition of negation and quantifier scope interpretation in English (abstract)
12:30
Can personality affect grammatical processing? Tolerance of ambiguity and relative clause attachment in multilingual speakers (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 14D: Cognition
Location: 215
11:00
The Effect of Case Marking and Word Order on Cross-Linguistic Structural Priming among Tibetan-Chinese-English Trilinguals (abstract)
11:30
Individual and institutional Dominant Language Constellations among multilingual students in higher education in Finland (abstract)
12:00
Why some cognates facilitate and others do not: Evidence from trilingual translation (abstract)
12:30
Beliefs on Plurilingual Assessment in Secondary Education: A Qualitative Study of Language Teachers and Plurilingual Students in Hamburg (abstract)