Calling all fluency researchers! 📢 The AILA Research Network "Multilingual approaches to fluency" is organizing a symposium at the AILA 2027 World Congress. Want to present your work there? Send your abstract (150 words) by 15th September 2026! Full CFP: pauliinapeltonen.com/fluency-ren/...

Call for papers for the ReN symposium at the AILA 2027 World Congress | Dr. Pauliina Peltonen

I am researcher and lecturer at the University of Turku.

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Kirjoitin sujuvuustutkimuksesta Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian AASF-julkaisuun: journal.fi/aasf/article... Tuoreimmassa numerossa 1/2026 paljon muutakin kiinnostavaa kesäluettavaa! journal.fi/aasf/issue/v... @utu.fi #FlowLangGroup

Had a wonderful time @eurosla.bsky.social in Lisbon! Great to catch up with colleagues & to make new friends. ➡️ Pic 1: some of the contributors & editors of our forthcoming Context Matters in SLA volume ➡️ Pic 2: our little multimodality delegation It’s the community that makes EuroSLA so great ❤️

EuroSLA 36 will take place in Ghent next year!

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Well deserved, congratulations Anna! She spent the autumn semester with us at @utu.fi, and I could not be happier that she received this recognition for her great work.

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Anna Pietruszewska (U of Lodz) is the winner of this year’s EuroSLA Junior Researcher LAB award for the most promising PhD project. Congratulations! 🎉

Day two at @eurosla.bsky.social kicking off with Emma Marsden’s inspiring keynote! ➡️ SLA research has real-world impact. Also valuable to communicate unclear results: it’s okay for us to say – we don’t know!

What a great first day at the @eurosla.bsky.social conference! Thank you to everyone who came to hear about mine and Loulou Kosmala’s work with the #ILFACT project data. Great questions and discussion! (Photo by Clare Wright)

On my way to @eurosla.bsky.social! Mine and Loulou Kosmala’s talk is tomorrow Thursday 25th at 3.30 PM (room 117). Come & hear about gestures+fluency! Will also bring these discount flyers with me for the upcoming @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social book ”Context Matters in SLA” (I’m one of the editors) 💚

It was a pleasure to spend some days in Paris working together on the #ILFACT project data with my colleague Dr. Loulou Kosmala! Read more about my research visit here: sites.utu.fi/kielen-oppim... (disclaimer: you might get hungry!) #FlowLangGroup #fluency @utu.fi

The special issue "Second language fluency across contexts” (editors Pauliina Peltonen @utu.fi & Clare Wright @universityofleeds.bsky.social) is now out in IRAL www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...! Warm thanks to all the contributors & to IRAL editors for support 🙏 @dgb-linguistics.bsky.social

Special Issue: Second language fluency across contexts; Guest Editors: Pauliina Peltonen and Clare Wright

Volume 64, issue 1 of the journal International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching was published in 2026.

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Delighted to host my colleague Alexandra Vraciu (University of LLeida) at the English department @utu.fi this week! How fitting that my copy of this book just arrived in the mail – we have both written chapters to it. www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/... Soon out @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social!

Happy to have been able to contribute a chapter on #fluency development to this forthcoming volume "Peer Interaction in the Foreign Language Classroom"! Out in March 2026 & now available for preorder: www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/... @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social @channel-view.bsky.social

Huge congrats to ILFACT project researcher Saara Naapila for securing a 4-year funding for her PhD project "Language anxiety and speech fluency among multilingual speakers in Finland"! 🥳 #FlowLangGroup @utu.fi @koneensaatio.fi koneensaatio.fi/apurahat-ja-...

AFinLA's yearbook 2025 is out! 🎉 Check out our article (Rihko & Peltonen) on the teaching of L2 speech #fluency based on a textbook analysis & questionnaire for language teachers. Conducted during #FDF2 and #ILFACT projects (funded by the Research Council of Finland). OA! doi.org/10.30661/afi...

Interested in #pronunciation, #robots, & #languageteaching? Check out our OA article (w/ Teppo Jakonen + Derya Duran) on how interactions involving a teacher, learners & a robot provide meaningful learning opportunities (funded by the Research Council of Finland). #CA @utu.fi doi.org/10.1177/1362...

Happy to announce that our article (w/ Sandra Götz & @pekkalintunen.bsky.social) exploring L1 & L2 speech #fluency in monologue + dialogue is now out in SSLA (OA)! Part of the recently completed #FDF2 project (funded by the Research Council of Finland). #FlowLangGroup @utu.fi doi.org/10.1017/S027...

Noticed today that the DiSS 2025 proceedings have been published! www.isca-archive.org/tmp/diss_202... Lots of interesting papers included (all open access). Glad I could contribute to this disfluency annotation initiative led by Trouvain, Crible, Belz, & Betz: www.isca-archive.org/tmp/diss_202...

Finally, #FlowLangGroup member Maarit Mutta @maaritmutta.bsky.social presented our work combining data from #FDF2 and #KISUVI projects, to examine learners' written and spoken profiles in the L1 + L2 and their anxiety during these tasks. Thanks again to the audience! #EuroSLA34 @koneensaatio.fi

Elina Lehtilä (#FlowLangGroup member and #ILFACT project researcher) did a very impressive job in summarizing her whole PhD and its four substudies in a 20-minute presentation on Friday morning 👏 #EuroSLA34

On Thursday, me & Clare Wright had the pleasure of presenting a new framework for studying fluency in interaction based on data from two projects (one of them being #FlowLangGroup #FDF2 that ended last year). Thanks to the audience for the discussion and feedback! #EuroSLA34 (📷: Magdalena Szyszka)

#FlowLangGroup was well represented at #EuroSLA34! On Friday, we presented the aims, methods, and work packages of the #ILFACT project (funded by the Research Council of Finland). Thanks to everyone who stopped by! (Me on the left, Elina Lehtilä on the right. Photo by @maaritmutta.bsky.social)

’Language learning is impressive’ – The starting point for the second keynote at #EuroSLA34 by Patrick Rebuschat. @c-labl.bsky.social

#EuroSLA34 has kicked off in Tromsø with Theres Grüter’s plenary on prediction as a mechanism for (L2) learning! 👏 @c-labl.bsky.social

Preparations for #EuroSLA34 are in full swing! Picked up our ILFACT poster today from the printer & excited to showcase it next week in Tromsø! Come and check it out during Poster session II ✨ ➡️ When? Friday 27th, at 3 pm ➡️ Where? Solhallen (TEO-H1 U1.803) #FlowLangGroup @eurosla.bsky.social

‌Yesterday we had the pleasure to present a part of the ILFACT project focusing on eye-tracking at the "Show what you got!" day organized by the Turku EyeLabs @utu.fi. Thanks to the audience for the helpful tips & interesting presentations on on-going/planned eye-tracking research! 🙏 #FlowLangGroup

Congrats to Veijo Vaakanainen who defended his PhD dissertation ”Dynamik och kontrast i konnektorbruket hos finska inlärare av L2-svenska” successfully today @utu.fi! Grattis 👏

Want to know more about the ILFACT project (funded by the Research Council of Finland) and our recent data collection trip to Marburg, Germany? Read more in our blog post, just published in the Department of English blog EnglanTY @utu.fi! blogit.utu.fi/englishturku...

Enjoying my time in Germany to the fullest! This week: complementary data collection, meeting w/ a Parisian colleague in Cologne + giving a guest lecture in Marburg. Also got to follow a lecture on intercultural communication by Loy Lising (in the middle in the 📷), as she was also visiting Marburg!

The #ILFACT data collection in Marburg this week was a success! So grateful for all the local help we received 🙏 To the wonderful student participants: thank you for contributing to fluency research! (In the 📸: ILFACT collaborator Sandra Götz, project researcher Saara Naapila & me) #FlowLangGroup

Greetings from Germany! Next week, the #ILFACT project data collection continues at Philipps-University Marburg. Preparations are well under way and I’m looking forward to meeting local students on Monday! #FlowLangGroup