The CARDIT 2026 Event, themed "Innovative Perspectives on Communication: CA-Informed Language Education for Teaching and Assessing Interaction," officially opened today (Thursday, 16 July 2026) in the Rajmontien Grand Ballroom, Montien Hotel Surawong Bangkok, and will continue through Saturday, 18 July 2026. The event is jointly organized by the Chulalongkorn University Language Institute, the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songkla University, and partners in the field of Conversation Analysis (CA).
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The opening ceremony was officiated by Associate Professor Dr. Jirada Wudthayagorn, Director of the Chulalongkorn University Language Institute; Dr. Panida Sukseemuang, Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songkla University; and Associate Professor Dr. Muttanachai Suttipun, representative of the Faculty of Management Sciences, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai Campus. The event brought together scholars, researchers, educators, and Conversation Analysis (CA) practitioners from around the world to exchange knowledge and foster academic collaboration.
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Throughout the event, participants will have the opportunity to attend the following Plenary Talks delivered by internationally renowned experts:
- Plenary Talk 1: Actions, Turns, and Sequences in L2 Teaching Materials by Associate Professor Thorsten Huth, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
- Plenary Talk 2: CA Meets TBLT: Exploring Task-Based Interactions with Conversation Analysis by Associate Professor Silvia Kunitz, Linköping University, Sweden
- Plenary Talk 3: Developing Classroom Interactional Competence through Data-Led and Collaborative Reflective Practice by Professor Olcay Sert, Mälardalen University, Sweden
- Plenary Talk 4: Insights from a Longitudinal CA Study of Hotel Guest-Relations Officers as Implications for Workplace Communication Training by Professor Hanh Thi Nguyen, Hawaii Pacific University, USA
- Plenary Talk 5: Conversation Analysis for Interactive Speaking Assessment: Building Evidence for Validity and Reliability by Associate Professor Soojung Youn, Daegu National University of Education, Republic of Korea
- Plenary Talk 6: Role-Playing with AI: A Conversation-Analytic Account of Human–AI Interaction by Assistant Professor Semih Ekin, TED University, Türkiye
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The CARDIT 2026 Event welcomes walk-in participants throughout the event. For further information, please visit https://www.cactus-hub.org/cardit.
