Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2) conferences bring together researchers sharing a socially and interactionally situated view of language use, L2 learning and L2 interactional competence development. We hereby invite researchers at all career levels who draw on the principles of ethnomethodology, (multimodal) conversation analysis, membership categorization analysis, usage-based linguistics and related approaches to present their research on how L2/multilingual speakers engage in sense-making practices, how they accomplish language learning and teaching in and through multimodal interaction, and how they develop their multimodal L2/multilingual interactional competence.  

This fifth ICOP-L2 conference will be held at Newcastle University in the North-East of England, and hosted by the University’s Applied Linguistics & Communication (ALC) research team. ALC at Newcastle has a long and proud history of research in social interaction research, and L2 interaction more specifically, dating back over 20 years. 

These are the main strands of the conference, but we are open to other contributions that cover interactional competences and L2 practices:  

• Interaction and L2 learning in classrooms and ‘in the wild’ 
• L2 interactional competence and its development
• Language Testing and L2 interactional competence
• L2 interactional competence in professional settings, including L2 teacher education and development
• Technologically mediated interaction, learning and teaching
• Multimodality and materiality in L2 interactional competence across settings and across time 
• Multimodality and multilingualism in L2 teaching in and through interaction 
• The grammar-body interface in L2 interaction, learning and teaching
• L2 interaction and Artificial Intelligence