51st Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics
Taking Risks in Applied Linguistics
September 6-8, 2018
York St John University, England, UK
BAAL 2018 will be held at York St John University in York, UK. After celebrating half a century of BAAL in 2017, our theme—Taking Risks in Applied Linguistics—will make the 2018 meeting a testing ground for new ways of pursuing our research and improving our practice. Our global community is facing unsettling times, and language use is at the heart of many of the challenges we face.
Such challenges include: new and renewed areas of social inequality; political, social and economic instabilities; language learning and teaching-related concerns; and legislative changes which affect the rights of certain groups. The 2018 meeting will be a forum for bold thinking to address these challenges. We hope the conference theme will encourage innovative proposals for papers, posters, and colloquia. We will provide some alternative session types too, so that delegates can present and get feedback on unfinished but original lines of thought and untested but promising new approaches to research and practice. New work on old ideas is also very welcome, to ensure that our collective disciplinary wisdom isn’t lost. Equally, we want to hear about work from outside our disciplinary borders, and indeed, outside of academia altogether.
The BAAL 2018 conference is hosted by LIdIA (Language and Identities in InterAction), an interdisciplinary research unit based in the School of Languages and Linguistics. York St John University is located in the centre of York. Rich in ancient history and famous for its wealth of visitor attractions, York is a flourishing city, just two hours by train from London and Edinburgh. The campus is easily accessible by car and rail. The University is a 16-minute walk or a short taxi ride from the train station. The nearest major airports are Leeds Bradford Airport (30 miles) or Manchester Airport (85 miles). Getting from Leeds Bradford Airport to York is easiest by taxi. There is a direct train from Manchester Airport.
PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Annelies Kusters – Heriot-Watt University
Erez Levon – Queen Mary University of London
Anne Pauwels – SOAS University of London
Bill VanPatten – Michigan State University (Pit Corder lecture)
CONFERENCE ORGANISERS:
Professor Chris Hall and Dr Rachel Wicaksono, School of Languages and Linguistics, York St John University
Conference Support: contact events@baal2018.org.uk
Conference webpage: www.baal2018.org.uk
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Abstracts are welcome in any area of Applied Linguistics, should be interesting and innovative in some way, and should be of scholarly and academically good quality and indicate clearly objectives, method(s), and results where appropriate. Abstracts which address the conference theme will be particularly welcome.
DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: 31 March 2018
Maximum abstract length: 300 words
To submit your abstract please use Oxford Abstracts (https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/281/submission)