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The MATSDA/UAEH Conference
The Value of Written, Spoken, Visual and Mental Texts as L2 Language Learning Materials

Wednesday June 3rd - Thursday June 4th, 2026
Business Centre, Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, Pachuca, Mexico

Plenary Speakers will include:

Rod Ellis | Claudia Ferradas | Alan Maley (online) | Hitomi Masuhara | Jayakaran Mukundan | SUN Youzhong | Brian Tomlinson

Conference Focus

The Conference will focus on the use of written, spoken, interactive, multi-modal, mental, visual and audio-visual texts for facilitating the acquisition of a second or foreign language. It will welcome academic and practitioner research reports, position papers, materials suggestions and workshop discussions, as well as workshop evaluation, adaptation and development of learning materials.

Parallel and poster presentations

To submit an abstract for a forty-minute presentation or workshop, or for a poster presentation please send a 100-150 word summary of the proposed presentation to Brian Tomlinson at brianjohntomlinson@gmail.com.

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