ISLS 2026 Agenda

8:00 AM

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Long Paper · ALP 1700

Argumentation, Discourse, and Agency

Papers examine argumentation, discourse, and agency across settings, from learner feedback agency and laypeople's evaluation of online health information to thinking routines in EFL film discussions. Additional talks address facilitation dilemmas in teacher video clubs and learner engagement in LLM-supported complex-systems simulations.

Multilingual Learners & Language in Learning in a talk

5 talks

Short Paper · ALP 2700

VR/AR/MR/XR and immersive learning

A short-paper session on immersive learning across VR, AR, and mixed reality, addressing how to assess learning processes with multimodal and log data rather than pre-post tests alone. Studies span AR multispecies inquiry with bees, instructional sequencing in VR, career exploration, and mobile AR for adult language learning.

Multilingual Learners & Language in Learning in a talk

5 talks

10:00 AM

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Short Paper · ALP 1120

Argumentation, dialogue, and dialogic engagement

Papers examine argumentation and dialogic engagement, from supporting competent outsiders' source evaluation with the AIR framework to a dual preparation model for dialogic teaching in East Asian classrooms. Other talks offer a typology of social bids in math groupwork and interaction analysis of knowledge construction in multilingual Indian science classrooms.

Multilingual Learners & Language in Learning in a talk

4 talks

2:30 PM

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Short Paper · ALP 1120

Embodied Learning

Five short papers on how bodies, movement, and representations mediate learning across science and mathematics. Topics include walking curricula reconnecting students with nature, transnational youth and climate justice, multimodal methods for analyzing embodied geometry, domain-inherent metaphors, and diagrams that bridge real and mathematical worlds.

Multilingual Learners & Language in Learning in a talk

5 talks