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."
At the 9th Theoretical Issues in Sign Linguistics Research (TISLR) conference in Brazil in December 2006, the Sign Language Linguistic Society (SLLS) was founded to support the sign linguistics field. The society is run by an elected board chaired by Prof Anne Baker with the assistance of an elected advisory board representing all regions of the globe and an auditing committee.
Homepage: http://www.let.ru.nl/sign-lang/slls/
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/