AILA – Past Congresses
To document the development of the field, this page contains a list of past congresses. According to availability, we are trying to present information on dates and venue, main topics, and publications. To supplement these in part only fragmentary data, readers are kindly invited to provide the AILA Secretariat with any additional information on the respective congress.
Multilingualism: Challenges and Opportunities
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14) 2005: 25.-29., July, AAAL, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Topic
The future is now!
The congress website is no longer available. You may still find some information via the "Wayback Machine" of archive.org.
13) 2002: 16.-21. December, Singapore
Currently no further information available!
The Roles of Language in the 21st Century: Unity and Diversity.
Publications
(1999): Selected Papers from AILA '99 Tokyo. Edited by AILA '99 Tokyo Organizing Committee. Tokyo: Waseda University Press.
11) 1996: August, Jyväskylä, Finland
Currently no further information available!
10) 1993: 8.-14. August, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Publications
Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (ed.) (1995): Multilingualism for all. Swets & Zeitlinger Lisse.
9) 1990: Halkidiki, Greece
Currently no further information available!
Halliday, M.A.K., Gibbons, John & Nicholas, Howard (eds.) (1990): Learning, keeping and using language: selected papers from the eighth world congress of Applied Linguistics. 2 Volumes. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
7) 1984: 5.-10. August, University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Topic
The Contribution of Applied Linguistics to International Understanding
Publications
Den Haese, Jan & Nivette, Jos (eds.) (1984): AILA Brussels 84. Proceedings. Volume 1-4.
6) 1981: Lund, Sweden
Publications
Nickel, Gerhard & Nehls, Dietrich (eds.) (1982): Error analysis, contrastive linguistics and second language learning: papers from the 6th Internat. Congress of Applied Linguistics. Heidelberg: Groos.
Sigurd, Bengt (ed.) (1982): Proceedings/AILA 81: abstracts of section papers and workshop summaries.
Savard, Jean-Guy (ed.) (1981): Actes du 5e Congrès de l?Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée. Québec: Les Pr. De l?univ. Laval.
4) 1975: 25.-30. August, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Publications
Abstracts: Stuttgart, 25th-30th August/ International Congress of Applied Linguistics
3) 1972: 21.26. August, ADLA, Copenhagen, Denmark
Publications
Nickel, Gerhard (ed.) (1974): Applied contrastive linguistics.
Verdoodt, A. (ed.) (1974): Applied sociolinguistics.
Qvistgaard, Jaques, Schwarz, H. & Spang-Hanssen, H. (eds.) (1974): Applied linguistics: Problems and solutions.
Perren, G.E. & Trim, John (eds.) (1971): Applications of Linguistics: selected papers of the second International Congress of Applied Linguistics. Cambridge: CUP
Primsleur, Paul (ed.) (1973): The psychology of second language learning: papers from the Second International Congress of Applied Linguistics. Cambridge: CUP.
1) 1964: 26.-31. October, University of Nancy, Nancy, France
Publications
Actes du premier Colloque International de Linguistique Appliquée. Nancy, 1966.
Preface by Bernhard Pottier & Guy Bourquin.
- I. L'Automatiosation en Linguistique
- II. Pédagogie des Langues Vivantes
- III. La Coordination des Recherches dans le Domaine Européen