AILA :: Welcome
August 24-29 2008, Essen, Germany
"It is only natural that an AILA World congress in Europe should focus on aspects of multilingual matters and the linguistic richness of this continent. The European Union and the Council of Europe have a clearly defined policy to preserve Europe as a multilingual and multicultural region. Because of the expansion of the European Union in the coming years, multilingualism and the challenges and opportunities connected with it will be a very topical theme in 2008, thus attracting a lot of attention and promising to be a great stimulus for academic debate. Consequently, the GAL-Executive and the AGM chose MULTILINGUALISM:
Challenges and Opportunities as the theme for the 2008 congress."
Deadline for submission of abstract proposals: 31 October 2007
The Conference "Language Issues in English-medium Universities: A Global Concern" will provide a forum to discuss and debate language issues in English-medium universities internationally. The participation of tertiary teachers, researchers, applied linguists and ELT professionals from all regions and contexts is welcome.
We welcome proposals for paper presentations, colloquia and posters discussing research in relation to any areas that fit within the theme of the Conference: "Language Issues in English-medium Universities: A Global Concern".
Homepage: http://www.hku.hk/clear/ala/
AILA Review, Volume 19
Edited by Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig and Zoltán Dörnyei. For the table of contents and abstract see Themes in SLA Research.
Journal discount for AILA members at Elsevier
For more information see Journal Discounts.
Forthcoming Linguistic Events
More events are available in our Event Calendar.
September 2007
40th British Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Meeting, September 6-8, 2007.
Homepage: http://www.baal.org.uk/
38th Annual Meeting, Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL), September 26.-28, 2007, Hildesheim, Germany
Homepage: http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/gal2007/
October 2007
The Independent Learning Association 2007 Japan Conference, October 5-8, 2007.
Homepage: http://www.independentlearning.org/
December 2007
14th International Conference, Advances in Research on Language Acquisition and Teaching December 14-16, 2007, Thessaloniki, Greece
Call for papers GALA Website: http://www.enl.auth.gr/gala/
June 2008
9th International Conference - ALA2008, June 26-29, 2008.
Homepage: http://www.hku.hk/clear/ala/
Language Issues in English-medium Universities: A Global Concern, June 18-19, 2008.
Homepage: http://www.hku.hk/clear/conference08/