Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026)

The Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026) is the biennial flagship event of the field of learner corpus research, bringing together scholars who use large collections of language produced by second-language learners to study acquisition processes, interlanguage development, and pedagogical applications. Topics include corpus construction and annotation methodology, computational analysis of learner language, transfer and cross-linguistic influence, error analysis, NLP tools for learner corpora, and connections between corpus evidence and second language acquisition theory.

LCR 2026 is an essential venue for corpus linguists, second language acquisition researchers, language educators, and computational linguists working on learner language. As NLP tools become more sophisticated and learner corpora grow in size and diversity, the conference increasingly attracts researchers interested in machine learning approaches to interlanguage analysis. Graduate students at all stages will find LCR a welcoming and intellectually rich environment with strong mentoring traditions and genuinely interdisciplinary conversation.

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