Language and Communication Research Lab (LCRL)

📢Announcement: We are happy to let you know that our lab's name has been officially changed to "The Language and Communication Research Lab (LCRL)". For more information, please visit our website (psu.edu.sa/en/CHS/LCRL)

Join us on Saturday, April 11, 2026. The 5th Language, Media and Intercultural Communication Forum 9:45 a.m. - 4:15 p.m. Saudi time Zoom: zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Didn’t get a chance to attend our webinars? No worries—you can watch all sessions on our website: psu.edu.sa/en/CSH/LCRL-Vi…

📢 Call for Participation: EFL Teachers in Saudi Arabia We are conducting a short survey on the use of AI tools in English language teaching. If you are currently teaching EFL in Saudi Arabia, we would greatly appreciate your participation. Link: (forms.gle/Z27Pm58BPTQJwy…)

📢 Call for Participation: EFL Teachers in Saudi Arabia We are conducting a short survey on the use of AI tools in English language teaching. If you are currently teaching EFL in Saudi Arabia, we would greatly appreciate your participation. Link: forms.gle/dr6copAF4WiT9M…

📢 Research Participants Needed! Female researchers are invited to participate in a study examining research writing practices. If interested, please complete the form (forms.gle/nygYDhXEj71c5a…) Participants will be contacted to schedule an online interview.

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📢Call for Participation: Language Teachers in Saudi Arabia We are conducting a short survey on how GenAI tools are being used in language teaching and learning. If you are currently teaching in Saudi Arabia, we would greatly appreciate your participation. tinyurl.com/mrxjnfwp

Reminder: Call for Proposals for the 7th International Symposium on Language and Communication Research (LCR2026) Theme: Multilingualism in a Changing World: Expanding Research Horizons Submission link: easychair.org/conferences/?c… Deadline: May 14, 2026

💫Registration is still open for this bootcamp. forms.gle/NkVGwENaAC7jwZ…

👏 Congratulations to Prof. Dina El-Dakhs & Dr. Leona Polyanskaya on the acceptance of their article, "The effect of writing direction and task-specific experience on mapping time and numbers on space".

Join our Translation Technology Bootcamp and gain hands-on experience with the tools used by professional translators. 📘 A Conceptual and Practical Introduction to Translation Technology 📅Apr 13-15, 2026 🔗Registration link: forms.gle/BTB5KYKARpdZwL…

👏 Congratulations to Dina El-Dakhs & Muhammad Younas on the acceptance of their article, "Metaphors by which we are constructed: Conceptualization of men and women in Shamsur Rahman Faruqi's English self-translation of the mirror of beauty from the original Urdu".

📢 Call for Participation: EFL Teachers in Saudi Arabia We are conducting a short survey on the use of AI tools in English language teaching. If you are currently teaching EFL in Saudi Arabia, we would greatly appreciate your participation. forms.gle/3kMWBqQMTNJviw…

📣The Call for Proposals for our 7th International Symposium on Language and Communication Research (LCR2026) is now open. Please, submit your abstracts through this link easychair.org/account/signin… Deadline for abstract submission is May 14, 2026.

👏Congratulations to Nazia Anwar, Behzad Anwar, Hala Dilbani & Muhammad Younas on the acceptance of their article, "Graduation markers in sports news: A Comparative study of evaluative language in British and Pakistani English".

👏Congratulations to Dina El-Dakhs, Nermine Ibrahim, Meaad Ghafoori & Tariq Elyas on the acceptance of their article, "The Representation of Women in Egyptian Proverbs: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis".

👏Congratulations to Shaista Rashid, Sadia Malik & Aleeza Gull on the publication of their article, "Gender-based variations in the production and perception of English diphthongs by Pakistani English speakers: A sociopolitical perspective".

👏Congratulations to Ghaleb Rabab'ah, Sharif Alghazo & Dina El-Dakhs on the acceptance of their article, "Refusals in Jordanian Arabic and Chinese: A cross-cultural pragmatic study of language and gender".

👏Congratulations to Suhad Sonbul, Gareth Carroll, Dina El-Dakhs, Kathy Concklin & Abdulaziz Altamimi on the acceptance of their article, "Learning binomials from context: Do nonnatives develop offline and online sensitivity to novel binomials after exposure?".

📌 Join Prof. Dina El-Dakhs Nile TESOL session: 📅Saturday, February 14, 2026 ⏲️8:00 p.m. Cairo time/ 9:00 p.m. Saudi time/ 6:00 p.m. GMT 🔗Google meet:meet.google.com/bre-rfin-wjm