LAMiNATE Newsletter 2026.1

Welcome!

In this June newsletter we celebrate LAMiNATErs achievements from the spring and look forward to the rest of the conference season. In case you need some reading for the summer, we also have a list of publications hot off the press for you.

Happy reading!
Marianne Gullberg & Jonas Granfeldt (Platform leaders)
Henriette Arndt & Frida Splendido (Platform coordinators) 

LAMiNATE Talks

We would like to thank everyone who presented this spring! We are currently working on the autumn series and more information about the schedule will soon be available on our website and LinkedIn. For now, we can tell you that there will be seven talks, starting on 15 September and ending on 8 December, and that presenters include researchers such as Maria Polinsky, Klara Marton, and Caroline Rowland.

Conferences, Conferences, Conferences!

The conference season is upon us! LAMiNATE was well represented at this year's ASLA Symposium in May. In addition to one LAMiNATEr (Alastair Henry) participating in a panel, five LAMiNATErs gave a total of 10 presentations, including keynotes by Ketty Andersson and Alastair Henry.

From left to right: Anders Agebjörn, Alastair Henry, Simone Löhndorf, Ketty Andersson and Victoria Johansson

In early June Maria Graziano presented at XIV Congresso degli italianisti scandinavi in Bergen. During the same week Sabine Gosselke Berthelsen presented at Fonetik 2026 in Lund.

Marianne Gullberg will give a keynote at the upcoming conference for the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC10) in Umeå.

Like in previous years, LAMiNATE will be represented at EuroSLA 35 in Lisbon this 24–27 June. We invite you to stop by these two LAMiNATE-related posters in session 2:

• One size might not fit all: The effect of multicultural personality on responses to a guided imagery intervention designed to enhance L2 motivation by Jonas Granfeldt, Alastair Henry,  Joost van de Weijer, Céline Rocher Hahlin and Elouise Botes.

• Maintaining proactive control in middle adulthood: A multilingual engagement EEG study by Kirill Elin, Vincent DeLuca and Jason Rothman

New Publications

Henry, A. & Liu, M. (2026) How Do I Measure up? Social Influence and L2 Motivation in the Algorithmic Age. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.70103

Arndt, H.L. & Kusyk, M. (2026) Research timeline: Informal second language learning. Language Teaching. Online First:1-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444826101219

Arndt., H., Geraerds, E. M. E., Granfeldt, J., & Gullberg, M. (2026). Challenging assumptions about migrant language use: Evidence from a Swedish study with the Experience Sampling Method and the Lang-Track-App. Applied Linguistics. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amag023 (e-pub April 8, 2026).

Marshall, C: R., & Gullberg, M. (2026). Reframing statistical learning through natural language paradigms. Cognitive Science, 50(5), e70225. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70225.

Henry, A. & Liu, M. (2026). What makes a theory good? Paradigm shifts in L2 motivation research. Nordic Journal of English Studies 25(1): 257–283. https://doi.org/10.35360/njes.v25i1.63683