ACTA International Conference
The ACTA conference, hosted by ATESOL NSW, will bring together national and international educators, researchers, and leaders to explore emerging challenges and opportunities in the TESOL field in early childhood education, schools, universities, and industry. Areas will focus on developments in policy, pedagogy and research in:
- national and international state of English as an additional language or dialect education, leadership and teacher education
- multilingual learner populations – child and adult Indigenous, immigrant, refugee, transnational and foreign English language learners
- English as a second language and literacy learning in education, including in English medium instructional and bilingual/multilingual settings.
An exciting program of guest speakers, featured symposia and featured symposia has been developed. Full details will be published at Our Conference – Australian Council of TESOL Associations
Call for Papers
Submissions are now invited for additional papers, workshops and colloquia. Each paper session is 20 minutes plus 10 minutes Q&A, each workshop and colloquium 60 minutes including Q&A, each keynote and ACTA-convened colloquia 60 minutes, and each invited featured symposia 80 minutes, including intros and at least 10 mins Q&A. Al papers will be double blind peer reviewed. To submit your abstract, please go to Oxford Abstracts
Please note that the deadline for submissions is 28 February 2026, and presenters will be notified of the outcome by early April 2026.