Conference on the Languages of the Nordic Countries as a Second Language

The programme can be downloaded here (in Norwegian).

If you wish to attend the municipal reception for NORDAND17 on Wednesday evening, June 10th, from 6 to 7 pm, you must register here by May 22nd.

The abstracts and bios can be found on the Norwegian version of the website.

• Cecilie Hamnes Carlsen (Professor at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences)
  •  Et kritisk blikk på språktesting (about developments in test research, in Norwegian)

Photo:

C. Carlsen

• Benjamin Lyngfelt and Julia Prentice (Professors at the University of Gothenborg)
  • Språkpedagogiska tillämpningar av konstruktionsgrammatik (about construction grammar and second language teaching, in Swedish)

Photo:

B. Lyngfelt

Photo:

J. Prentice

• Minna Suni (Professor at the University of Jyväskylä)
  • Second language perspectives to social sustainability in working life (about vocational language education, in English)

Photo:

M. Suni

Registration is now open and can be completed via this link.

Registration deadline is April 1st, 2026. Update: It is now possible to register late for the conference until April 30th (via the same link).

If you cancel your registration by April 7th, 2026, 95% of the participation fee and any conference dinner will be refunded. Cancellations after April 7th are non-refundable.

Conference fee: NOK 2200

Conference dinner fee: NOK 750

The deadline for abstract submissions was November 30th, and it is no longer possible to submit.

All contributors who submitted abstracts have now received feedback on the review outcome.

Panel proposers have been informed about the programme decisions, and contributors accepted to a panel should by now have been contacted by the panel initiators.

The abstract booklet will be published in April.

Participation in the Conference with a Scientific Contribution

There are three ways to contribute to the conference:

• Individual presentation (20 minutes + 5 minutes for questions)
• Individual presentation within a thematic panel (20 minutes + 5 minutes for questions)
• Poster presentation

To ensure a diversity of contributors, we aim to limit the number of presentations for which one can be the main author to one.

Abstract requirements

Abstracts must be written in a Scandinavian language or English, and have a maximum length of 250 words, excluding the reference list.

Evaluation of Abstracts

All abstracts—individual, panel-related, and poster presentations—will be evaluated by two peer reviewers with research competence. 

Deadline for Abstract Submission

Abstracts are to be submitted via https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=19965219. The submission deadline is November 30.

Examples of hotels and hostels near the conference venue:

Hotel Terminus: https://www.debergenske.no/bergen/hotell-overnatting/grand-hotel-terminus

Scandic Byparken: https://www.scandichotels.com/no/hotell/scandic-byparken

Marken Guesthouse: https://www.marken-gjestehus.com/no/velkommen

Citybox Bergen: https://cityboxhotels.com/no/hotels/bergen/bergen-city

Otherwise, we recommend using www.visitbergen.com or other search services to find accommodation.

April: The abstract booklet will be published.

April 7th, 2026: Deadline to cancel conference registration with full refund

April 1st, 2026: Deadline to register for the conference. THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO APRIL 30TH. 

November 30th, 2025: Deadline for submitting abstracts

October 31st, 2025: Publication of the thematic panels on the website

October 24th, 2025: Deadline for proposing thematic panels (collaborative groups)

Chairs: Ann-Kristin Helland Gujord, Marianne van Baar

Else Berit Molde, Hilde V. Brynjulfsen, Ilka Wunderlich, Ingvild Nistov, Julie Bergmann, Katrin Saarik, Kristine Vårdal, Live Tjervåg, Nina Schjetne, Pernille Myrvold, Sigrun Eilertsen, Tina Nordby