ACCENTS 2025

ŁÓDŹ, 11 - 13 DEC 2025

18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE ACCENTS OF ENGLISH

ACCENT VARIATION AND CHANGE

'Accents' is an annual conference organized by the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at University of Lodz, Poland. It brings together researchers and teachers interested in native and non-native accents of English, approached from a variety of theoretical and/or practical perspectives. The key issues discussed each year include individual accent characteristics, the dynamism of accent usage, accent teaching and learning, and the methods and tools for accent studies. The leitmotif of Accents 2025 revolves around phonological variation and change in English accents across diverse contexts, regions, countries and continents.

Plenary speakers (in alphabetical order):

Prof. Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Prof. Talia Isaacs, University College London, United Kingdom

Prof. Radek Skarnitzl, Charles University, Czechia

Prof. Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Call for papers

We invite proposals for papers, workshops and posters referring to the main theme ‘Accent variation and change’ as well as other issues related to native and non-native accents of English, including, but not limited to the ones mentioned below:
accents in natural environment: World Englishes, immigrant context, sojourners, etc.
accents in varied educational contexts: ESL, EFL, ELF, ESOL, EAP, EMI, etc.
phonological variation across time and space
bilingualism and multilingualism
ASR, CAPT, HVPT
modern technology use in pronunciation learning/teaching
native and non-native verbal interactions
the role of pronunciation in oral communication
pronunciation in discourse
suprasegmentals/prosody/fluency
intelligibility/ comprehensibility/ acceptability
segmental features and accuracy
speech perception and/or speech production
pronunciation teaching, pronunciation instruction and instructed learning
classroom-based research
laboratory-based investigations
pronunciation assessment
pronunciation teacher training

Deadline for abstract submissions is August 15th, 2025. Please send an abstract of up to 400 words in word document NOT pdf  (excluding references) to accents@uni.lodz.pl  with the intended format, Author name(s) and affiliation written under the title.The proposals will go through the process of peer review, after which notifications of acceptance will be sent out by September 20th, 2025.
Information on our previous conferences can be found at filolog.uni.lodz.pl/accents under Abstracts. Please send all conference related questions to accents@uni.lodz.pl
All information regarding the registration fee, conference venue and recommended conference hotel will be available in early autumn.

VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION

CONFERENCE VENUE

The conference is planned for three full days, December 11-13, 2025. The conference will be held at the Faculty of Philology and the University Conference Centre (Kopcińskiego 16/18) of the University of Lodz.

ACCOMMODATION

We recommend the University Conference Centre - please go to Registration Form (available below) to book a room.

 

REGISTRATION

All details and the registration form will be available here in late August.

ORGANIZERS

ACCENTS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Conference Organisers:

Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics:

Ewa Waniek-Klimczak (Founding Organiser)

Anna Jarosz (Conference Chair),  email: anna.jarosz@uni.lodz.pl

Izabela Grabarczyk (Conference Secretary)

Anna Gralińska-Brawata (Conference Secretary)

Grzegorz Zgondek (IT Engineer)

Jakub Żak (IT Engineer)

 

 

ACCENTS ADVISORY BOARD

Alexander Baratta, Manchester Institute of Education, UK

Ocke-Schwen Bohn, Aarhus University, Denmark

Una Cunningham, University of Stockholm, Sweden

Tracey Derwing, University of Alberta, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Wayne Dickerson, University of Illinois, USA

Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Joshua Gordon, University of Northern Iowa, USA

Alice Henderson,Université Grenoble Alpes, France

Magnus Huber, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

Talia Isaacs, University College London, United Kingdom

Okim Kang, Northern Arizona University (NAU), USA

Jose Antonio Mompeán Gonzalez, University of Murrcia, Spain

Joan Carles Mora, University of Barcelona, Spain

Murray Munro, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Charlie Nagle, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Mirosław Pawlak, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland

Marnie Reed, Boston University, USA

Arkadiusz Rojczyk, University of Silesia, Poland

Veronica Gabriela Sardegna, Duquesne University, USA

Jane Setter, University of Reading, UK

Linda Shockey, University of Reading, England

Radek Skarnitzl, Charles University, Czechia

Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Ron Thomson, Brock University, Canada

Pavel Trofimovich, Concordia University, Canada

Jan Volin, Charles University in Prague, the Czech Republic

Ewa Waniek-Klimczak, University of Łódź, Poland

Magdalena Wrembel, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland

 

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