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What's on in Applied Linguistics ...
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Newsletter
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Welcome to the mid-year newsletter. After more than two years of restrictions due to the pandemic, we can now travel again and meet at conferences and events worldwide.
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Forthcoming events by affiliates in 2022, onsite and virtual, include:
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AILA Affiliated Conferences
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| July 13-16, 2022 |
Sociolinguistics Symposium 24 – Inside and Beyond Binaries |
Ghent University, Belgium |
| Aug 10-11, 2022 |
MAAL Asia Pacific Conference 2022 (MAAL APC 2022) |
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Aug 24-26, 2022 |
The 61st JACET International Convention |
Online, Japan |
| Sept 1-3, 2022 |
BAAL Conference 2022 |
Queen's University Belfast, N. Ireland |
| Sept 8-10, 2022 |
Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2) - Barcelona 2022 |
Barcelona, Spain |
| Sept 15-17, 2022 |
The 12th International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia |
| Sept 22-23, 2022 |
International Conference on Multilingual Education in Linguistically Diverse Contexts (MELDC 3) |
University of Tirana, Albania |
| Sept 28-30, 2022 |
2022 Annual Conference of the German Association of Applied Linguistics (GAL) |
Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg, Germany |
| Sept 29-30, 2022 |
6th International Conference of Applied Linguistics in Lithuania |
Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, Lithuania |
| Sept 30 - Oct 1, 2022 |
IRAAL Conference 2022 |
Munster Technological University, Ireland |
| Oct 1, 2022 |
2022 ALAK International Conference & AILA East-Asia Forum |
Hybrid, Korea |
| Oct 27-29, 2022 |
AFinLAn syyssymposium 2022 |
Helsinki, Finland |
| Nov 6-11, 2022 |
13th Conference of Brazilian Applied Linguistics (CBLA) |
Online, Brazil |
| Nov 25-27, 2022 |
ALAA and ALANZ Conference – Applied linguistics in the Asia-Pacific region |
Wellington, New Zealand |
| July 17-21, 2023 |
AILA 60th Anniversary World Congress Lyon 2023 |
Lyon, France |
| Aug 13-16, 2024 |
AILA 60th Anniversary World Congress Kuala Lumpur 2024 |
Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia |
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Research Networks (ReNs)
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Research Networks (ReNs) seek to promote research and its dissemination in all academic areas covered by AILA, with a particular focus on areas with potential for new cross-disciplinary research. ReNs facilitate regional and inter-regional networking leading to more joint engagements and exchanges. Please write to ReN coordinators if you are interested in joining any of the ReNs.
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Historical Figures in Applied Linguistics
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As we approach 60 years of AILA, it is appropriate to recall the founders of the Association and others who played a key role in AILA’s early days. In this issue, as AFLA (France) celebrates its 60th anniversary, you may be interested to read about the pioneers who founded AFLA in 1964: Guy Capelle (assisted by Antoine Culioli, Henri Evrard, André Martinet, Bernard Pottier and Paul Rivenc). Fernand Carton published an article on the emergence of applied linguistics in France in the 1960s. Amongst other interesting pieces of information, he describes interdisciplinary work at that time. The article in French (please Google translate into English if need be) is given below:
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UNESCO
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AILA’s relations with the United Nations go back a long way. More recently, AILA endorsed the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) contributing to raising awareness of social issues among applied linguists. Herewith a report by UNESCO on ‘A new social contract for education’ which includes the essential role of multilingualism in inclusive and equitable education.
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Professor Azirah Hashim
President, International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA)
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“Force, hatred, history, all that. That's not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it's the very opposite of that that is really life…Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred”. -- James Joyce, Ulysses (published in Paris, 100 years ago this year)
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