The Value of Texts as L2 Language Learning Materials 
	Wednesday June 3rd - Thursday June 4th, 2026
	Business Centre, Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo
	Pachuka, Mexico
	Plenary Speakers:
	The plenary speakers will include:
	Rod Ellis    Claudia Feradas   Hitomi Masuhara    Brian Tomlinson
	Conference Focus
	The Conference will focus on the use of written, spoken, interactive, multi-modal, mental, visual and audio-visual texts for facilitating the acquisition of a second or foreign language. It will welcome academic and practitioner research reports, position papers, materials suggestions and workshop discussions, as well as workshop evaluation, adaptation and development of learning materials. 
	Parallel and Poster Presentations
	To submit an abstract for a forty minute presentation or workshop, or for a poster presentation please send a 100-150 word summary of the proposed presentation to Brian Tomlinson at brianjohntomlinson@gmail.com
	Conference Fees (to include welcome drinks and paste, coffees and teas)
	MATSDA and TMAC members, students, UAEH staff: 209 US dollars
	Other participants: 240 US Dollars
