SOCIOCULTURAL THEORY AND SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING RESEARCH
2026 WORKING GROUP MEETING
AUGUST 12th – 14th
UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO – BUTANTÃ CAMPUS
August 12th – Day one
Welcome
8:10am – 9:30am: Welcome
8:10am - 9am: Coffee and Registration
8:30am - 8:45 am: Graduate Program English and Literature Coordinator Head of the Department of Modern Languages
8:50 - 9:10am: Introductory Session - Kimberly Urbanski and Alessandro Rosborough
Conference Moderators: Kimberly Urbanski and Alessandro Rosborough
9:10am - 9:40am: Meet and greet for participants
Morning Sessions (9:45am – 12:35pm)
9:45am – 10:35am: What Counts as Development? Performance, Conceptual Change, and the Meaning of Development in Sociocultural Theory (Kimberly Urbanski and Tina Randall)
10:45am – 11:35am: Microgenetic Analysis of Dynamic Assessment in Concept-Based Instruction of Japanese Passives (Kyoko Masuda and Amy Snyder Ohta)
11:45am – 12:35pm: Dancing towards growth: A Vygotskian perspective on L2 teacher-teacher educator interplay in professional development (Matheus André Agnoletto and Adriana de Carvalho Kuerten Dellagnelo)
12:35pm – 2pm – LUNCH (on your own)
Afternoon Sessions (2pm – 6:40pm)
2pm – 2:50pm: Emotion and Cognition in Postgraduate Students’ Engagement with Supervisory Written Feedback: A Sociocultural Perspective (Oluwatosin Mariam Junaid)
3pm – 3:50pm: Generative Artificial Intelligence and Mediation: A Guided Discussion (Brandon Sherman, Matt Poehner, Dmitri Leontjev and Nicholas Carr)
3:50pm – 4:05pm: Coffee Break
4:05pm – 4:55pm: Co-Creating Meaning During Picturebook Read-Alouds with Preservice Teachers: A Vygotskian Approach (Alessandro Rosborough and Paul Ricks)
5pm-5:30pm: Discussion space -theoretical debates
5:40pm - 6:40pm: SCT & L2 Journal Editorial Board Meeting
August 13th – Day two
Welcome
8:10am – 8:30: Coffee
Morning Sessions (8:30 am – 12pm)
8:30am – 9:20am: Transformative Teacher Learning: A Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory-Informed Educational Intervention (Andreia Dalla Costa)
9:30am – 10:20am: Enacting the pedagogical imperative in second language teacher education: Designing social situations of development (Michael Amory)
10:30 am – 11:20pm: From Everyday Beliefs to Scientific Concepts: Mediating Teacher Language Awareness of Spanish Verbal Aspect through Concept-Based Instruction (Alfredo J Hernández-Abella)
11:30am – 12:20pm: Context vs Environment: Conceptual Challenges in the Study of the Social Situation of Development (Gabriele Neri)
12:20pm – 1:55pm – LUNCH (on your own)
Afternoon Sessions (1:55pm – 5:30pm)
1:55pm – 2:45pm: The quality and character of language teacher educator mediation in response to language teachers’ tiny talks (Paula Golombek)
2:55pm – 3:45pm: Exploring the value of AI-generated insights in DA of L2 reading (Dmitri Leontjev and Matthew E. Poehner)
3:45pm – 4pm: Coffee Break
4:05pm – 4:55pm: Creating conditions for and tracing the development of language teacher educator expertise (Karen Johnson)
5pm-5:30pm: Discussion space - theoretical debates
7:30 pm: Conference dinner