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The Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, Ministry of Education and Culture, Cyprus, in collaboration with the University of Cyprus, announce the 2^nd International Scientific Conference on “Literacy and Contemporary Society”, titled: Spaces, Discourses, Practices.

The Conference will be held on 28-29 November 2017, at the “Filoxenia” Conference Center in Nicosia, Cyprus. 

More information on the Conference website http://www.pi.ac.cy/literacy 

Registration is now open:

http://www.pi.ac.cy/pi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1812&Itemid=109&lang=en

On behalf of the Organizing Committee,

Spyros Sofokleous

Cyprus Pedagogical Institute 40 Macedonia Avenue, 2238 Latsia P.O.Box 12720, 2252 Nicosia

Tel: +35722402485 Fax: 22560118,22402398

http://www.pi.ac.cy/literacy

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Theme: "Taking Risks in Applied Linguistics"

 6 - 8 September 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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  

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)

Call for Proposals

Translanguaging: Opportunities and Challenges in a Global World

 

 Plenary speakers: 

Ofelia García (City University of New York)

Guillaume Gentil (Carleton University)

Danièle Moore (Simon Fraser University)

Venue: Canadian Centre for Studies and Research on Bilingualism and Language Planning (CCERBAL), Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (OLBI), University of Ottawa.

Conference dates: May 3-4, 2018.

Deadline for proposals: December 15, 2017.

Featured events: Round tables and thematic symposia on Linguistic Risk-Taking, Bilingual and Multilingual Policies, and much more.

Conference theme: Translanguaging, a construct referring to the complex use of more than one language as a (combined) resource, has captured the imagination of researchers, educators, and policy makers around the world. The role of translanguaging as a linguistic and social practice in family, community, educational and institutional contexts raises a number of stimulating and challenging questions that call for continued discussion. 

Proposals for oral presentations, posters, workshops, thematic symposia and round tables addressing the conference theme from multidisciplinary perspectives (educational, linguistic, social, psychological, policy, etc.) are welcome. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• The meaning and evolution of the term translanguaging over time and across disciplines, and its links with concepts such as plurilingualism and biliteracy.
• The role of translanguaging in bilingual/immersion education, language teaching and learning, and language assessment.
• Translanguaging rules, norms and practices in institutional settings (e.g. bilingual universities, government institutions, etc.).
• Links between Indigenous, minority, heritage and sign languages and translanguaging.
• Translanguaging in bilingual and multilingual societies around the world.
• Language policy and translanguaging.
• Translanguaging and family language policy.
• Technology and translanguaging.
• Translanguaging and intercomprehension.
• Translanguaging and its interrelationship with other issues and phenomena, such as code-switching, language contact, diglossia and heteroglossia, mixed languages, language variation and change, language attrition, language shift, language loss, bi-/multilingual child language development, bi-/multilingualism across the lifespan, superdiversity, migration, identity, globalisation, peace, etc.

Proposals will be accepted until December 15, 2017 online at the following address: http://ccerbal.uottawa.ca/en/activities/conferences.

Conference chairs are Nikolay Slavkov and Jérémie Séror (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

The Ohio State University presents the Second Language Research Forum 2017

Growing Connections in Second Language Research

October 12th - 15th, 2017

Second Language Research has its roots in a variety of disciplines and traditions, each containing a multiplicity of voices and theories, at times complementary and at times clashing. Recently, scholars in the field have enriched their work by drawing insights from sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and neurocognitive approaches to SLA; research on pragmatics and classroom interactions; and the study of Bilingualism, Bi-literacy, and Multilingualism. These connections have begun to bridge the gaps amongst methodologies, facilitating a better understanding of the problematics at play in second language teaching, learning, and use.

Simultaneously, linguistics as a field has sought to connect to other disciplines, to the media, and to laypeople. Since their field is often misunderstood by those outside of it, linguistic researchers are working to educate those beyond their boundaries and looking to other disciplines to enrich their work and promote understanding of how languages are learned.

Finally, technological advancements offer enhanced approaches to language practice for teachers and learners: Asynchronous and synchronous computer mediated communication (CMC) allows for connections and collaborations between learners and instructors on a global scale, and technologies such as eye-tracking, event-related potential (ERP) and fmri allow researchers valuable insight into learners’ language acquisition processes.

The theme of SLRF 2017, “Growing Connections in Second Language Research,” focuses on these developing links. Consequently, we invite proposals for paper and poster presentations that in some way discuss connections: amongst methodologies, fields, and people.

We welcome but are not limited to submissions situated in the following areas of research:

* Research Methods in SLR

* Cognitive and Neurocognitive Approaches to SLA

* Formal Approaches to SLA

* Sociolinguistic Approaches to SLA

* Psycholinguistic and Psychological Approaches to SLA

* Instructed SLA - Issues in SL Education

* Bi-literacy - Bilingualism - Multilingualism

* CALL/CMC / Technology

Submission deadline: April 16th, 2017

For submission guidelines and to submit an abstract, please visit our website at http://u.osu.edu/slrf2017

The University of Jyväskylä Language Campus is pleased to organize the

16th International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML XVI) &

34th Summer School and Conference of Applied Language Studies

which will be held in Jyväskylä & Närpes, Finland August 28-30, 2017

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The submission of proposals is now open at https://congress.cc.jyu.fi/icml2017/cgi-bin/contact.cgi and closes on February 28, 2017. Please, submit your proposal by filling out an online form.

Proposals regarding original and previously unpublished research on minority languages are invited. All proposals should fall broadly within the conference theme revaluing minority languages.

Types of presentations: 1) paper, 2) poster, 3) colloquium, and 4) workshop (with hands-on activities based on some data or a specific topic).

Length of abstracts: paper, poster or workshop (500 words, max., including references).

Proposals for colloquia

Colloquia are collections of paper presentations that relate to a narrowly defined topic of interest, and are offered in a three-hour time block. Proposals for colloquia are limited to 700 words, and should include brief summaries of each of the papers to be included, along with paper titles and individual authors’ names. Sufficient detail should be provided to allow peer reviewers to judge the scientific merit of the proposal. The person submitting a proposal for a colloquium is responsible for securing the permission and co-operation of all participants before the proposal is submitted. A chair for the session must also be identified.

Language policy

The language of the conference is English. If a presentation is based on data in any other language, use of multilingual material (e.g. in Power Point slides, handouts) is recommended.

Reviewing of abstracts

The proposals for any type of presentation will be evaluated anonymously by at least two members of the Organizing Committee, and they will be evaluated for their contribution to the field, quality of content, thematic relevance and quality of abstract (organization, clarity of expression).

Presentation acceptances will be sent out by April 10, 2017.

CONFERENCE THEME: REVALUING MINORITY LANGUAGES

Minority languages have long been used by different groups of social actors for identity and community building purposes, such as the symbolic, material, and political mobilisation of linguistic and cultural rights. Currently, under changing political, economic and cultural conditions around the world, minority languages are subject to multiple, overlapping and even contradictory discourses and practices of valuation and revaluation.

The peripheral position of minority languages, as structured by nation-state logics, and the central role endowed to them in the political projects of various minority groups are now complexified by both the increasing economic value of minority languages as a resource of distinction and authenticity, and by the intensified mobility of languages and their speakers. Some of the consequences of this complexification result in re-evaluating relationship between minority and migrant languages and the trajectories of so-called “new speakers” of minority languages.

ICML XVI will address critical questions such as how minority languages are valued, by whom and under what conditions.

The conference is open to researchers, students and stakeholders from across the multidisciplinary field of minority languages.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMME

In addition to the talks delivered by plenary speakers, the programme will consist of panel discussions, paper and poster sessions, colloquia and workshops.

Talks by plenary speakers:

Professor Helen Kelly Holmes (University of Limerick, Ireland)

Professor Ingrid Piller (Macquarie University, Australia)

Director Robert Adam (University College London, UK)

Professor Sari Pöyhönen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

There will be two invited panel discussions: 1) Historical language minorities in Finland and in the neighboring countries; and 2) Immigration and integration in the Swedish speaking regions of Finland.

Pre- or post-conference workshops will be organized by plenary speakers.

Please visit the website www.jyu.fi/icml2017 for regular updates on ICML XIV.

Correspondence with organizers: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Follow us on Twitter! @ApplingJYU #ICMLXVI

The Foreign Languages Centre and the Center for the Study of the Hellenic Language and Culture of the University of Ioannina (Greece) will organise the 2nd Erasmus Staff Training Week, on "Innovative Foreign Language Teaching for specific purposes".

The training week will take place from 27th June to 1st July on Lefkas island at Ionion Star Hotel. The programme is addressed to language teachers, academics, teacher trainers, school advisors/directors and students in the field of language learning and teaching. Participants could attend either by pursuing an Erasmus scholarship or by self-funding.

More information is available through:

http://hellenic-center.uoi.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=192:erasmus-training-week-2016-en&catid=25:announcements&lang=en-GB&Itemid=109

Contact info:

Dr. Alexandra Galani, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Dr. Theodora Tseligka, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Venue: The University of Auckland

Main Conference: 18th to 19th of November

(Pre-conference workshops 17th of November)

The Association for Language Testing and Assessment of Australia and New Zealand (ALTAANZ) invites you to submit an abstract for the ALTAANZ Conference to be held at The University of Auckland, New Zealand, between 17 and 19 November 2016.

Confirmed plenary speakers are:

• Matt Poehner, Pennsylvania State University
• Ute Knoch, University of Melbourne
• Peter Keegan, University of Auckland

We welcome proposals related to the conference theme "In the classroom and beyond: Assessing language ability in different contexts"

 Areas of particular interest are:

• Classroom-based assessment: issues and practice
• Assessment for learning in language classrooms
• Development and validation of diagnostic language assessment tasks
• Assessment for the learning of indigenous languages
• Language assessment of indigenous learners
• Assessing language for academic purposes
• Assessing language for professional purposes
• Second language proficiency models and implications for developing assessment tasks
• Technology and language assessment
• Expanding existing, and creating new, validity frameworks for language assessment
• Standardised tests: development, implementation and/or use by institutional stakeholders
• Language assessment policy and practice: ethics and accountability
• Research methodology for exploring language assessment

Proposals can be for papers, posters, work in progress presentations, or symposia. We welcome proposals that focus on classroom assessment practice as well as those which report on more formal research and development projects.

For more information please read the Call for Papers attached or visit the conference website http://www.altaanz.org/submit-a-proposal1.html

Wednesday, August 24 – Saturday, August 27, 2016

University of Jyväskylä, Finland

https://www.jyu.fi/en/congress/eurosla26

CALL FOR PROPOSALS 

We are inviting proposals for presentations at Eurosla 26. All areas and approaches of the study of learning second/foreign/additional languages are welcome. The theme of the conference is Looking back, looking forward: Language learning research at the crossroads. Presentations of taking stock of what we have achieved and where we are going in a particular area of study are thus especially welcome. The Language Learning Roundtable will discuss second language learning by a variety of groups in a particular situation, to bring in new views for the Eurosla community. Such new openings are also welcome for the main part of the conference.

The academic programme will consist of presentations by the participants and the invited keynote speakers, as well as the doctoral student workshop on Wednesday, August 24, with feedback from senior researchers. The submission of presentation proposals opens on February 1, 2016, and closes on February 28, 2016. The proposals are submitted by filling in an online form at https://congress.cc.jyu.fi/eurosla26/.

Types of presentations: 1) paper, 2) poster, 3) colloquium, with thematically related papers, discussion and audience participation. Also, if you have an idea for a new type of event, please get in touch with the organizers with the outline of your plan.

Length of abstracts: paper or poster (max. 300 words, including references), colloquium (max. 500 words, including titles of papers but no mention of presenters by name. If a colloquium proposal is accepted, an abstract will be requested for each paper, max 300 words.

Length of presentations in the conference:

• Paper: 20 min. and 10 min. for discussion and change of rooms
• Poster: size AO, max. Presenters will also be given the opportunity to present the main points in a 2 min. (max.) talk.
• Colloquium: 90 or 180 min.

Language policy: The working language of the conference is English but presentations are also welcome in other European languages.

Presenter policy: Each participant can appear as the first author of one presentation only. A colloquium convener can also present at the colloquium or elsewhere in the programme.

The proposals for all presentations will be evaluated anonymously by at least two members of the Eurosla Scientific committee. The criteria include the quality of the content and the clarity of the abstract, contribution to the field and thematic relevance.

Presentation acceptances will be sent out by April 25, 2016.

For any queries, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The conference is organized back-to-back with Psychology of Language Learning 2: Individuals in Contexts, Monday August 21 – Wednesday, August 24, 2016.  Both events are organized in Jyväskylä, Finland.

We look forward to seeing you in Jyväskylä, Finland, in late August 2016.

 Organizing Committee

Register Studies, a new journal from John Benjamins, is now accepting submissions. Register Studies is highly interdisciplinary, welcoming scholarship on register from areas such as corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, Systemic Functional Linguistics, language teaching, and computational linguistics. Research on English-language registers, analyses of registers in languages other than English, and cross-linguistic comparisons of registers are welcome.

Register Studies regularly publishes reviews of books, corpora, and research tools focused on register research. All contributions undergo double-blind peer review. We welcome the submission of manuscripts from any of the aforementioned areas.

The first issue of Register Studies is scheduled for publication in Spring 2019. For more information about this journal, including Editorial Board, manuscript submission guidelines, and subscription, please visit the website at: https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/rs/main

General Editors

Jesse Egbert, Northern Arizona University

Bethany Gray, Iowa State University

Consulting Editor

Douglas Biber, Northern Arizona University

The Applied Linguistics Association of Korea (ALAK) cordially invites you to the 2017 ALAK International Conference, “Broadening the Scope of Language Learning and Teaching”,  to be held on September 9 at Seoul National University of Education. This year's conference presents 9 invited and 77 concurrent talks, and 18 poster presentations.

Plenary Speakers:   

Dr. Ronald P. Leow, Georgetown University

Language learning in the L2 classroom: How implicit or how explicit should it be? Theoretical, empirical, and curricular/pedagogical issues  

Dr. Ana Lado, Marymount University

What makes a literature-based English program not only effective but also more efficient?  

Dr. Yo-An Lee, Sogang University

Tracing longitudinal development of connected discourse: The case for Korean speakers of English    

Featured Speakers:

Jaruda Rajani Na Ayuthaya, Kasetsart University, Thailand

Lindsay Herron, Gwangju National University of Education, Korea

Chiaki Iwai, Hiroshima City University, Japan

Larissa V. Koulchitskaya, Far Eastern Federal University, Russia

Boyoung Lee, Ewha Womans University, Korea

Pragasit Sitthitikul, Thammasat University, Thailand

Swandi Swandi, University of PGRI Semarang, Indonesia    

Visit www.alak.or.kr or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for questions. 

The 3rd International Psychology of Language Learning conference (PLL3) will be held at Waseda University, Tokyo, June 7-10, 2018. The theme of the conference is “Stretching Boundaries” and the aim is to bring together people from all over the world to share their interest in the role of psychology in the learning and teaching of languages.

Plenary speakers are Mimi Bong, Zoltán Dörnyei, Lourdes Ortega, Richard Ryan, and Ema Ushioda — all internationally respected pioneers in their fields, bringing not only cutting-edge scholarship to the conference but also a diverse range of perspectives.

Proposals are invited for papers, symposia, work-in-progress, and posters.

Online proposals open on September 1st, 2017, and close on December 11th, 2017.

Please go to PPL3 http://www.pll3-tokyo2018.com/call-for-proposals/ for details. 

Rieko Nishida

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The AILA World Congress 2017 will now start in three days in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  

For those who, for any reason, won't be able to be here in Rio with us, we are happy to announce that the Opening Ceremony and the six plenary addresses will be broadcast through our website.  

Access www.aila2017.com.br to follow the program below:  

23/07 from 4:00 p.m. on  - Opening Ceremony and plenary address by  Luiz Paulo da Moita Lopes  

24/07 at 09:00 a.m. - Plenary address by Lorenza Mondada  

25/07 at 09:00 a.m. - Plenary address by Mary  Bucholtz  

26/07 at 09:00 a.m. - Plenary address by Tommaso Milani  

27/07 at 09:00 a.m. - Plenary address by Ben Rampton  

28/07 at 05:00 p.m. - Plenary address by Marilda Cavalcanti   

More details about the conference program can be accessed through our website and/or the App AILA 2017, available for download at Google Play and App Store.      

Warm regards, AILA World Congress Rio 2017 Local Organizing Committee 

The Institute of English of the University of Silesia in Katowice and International Association of Multilingualism are happy to announce the 3rd Silesian Meeting of Young Scholars and 2nd Young Researchers’ International Symposium on Multilingualism that is to take place in Szczyrk, November 16th-18th, 2017.

For more information check the conference website: http://www.smys.yrism.us.edu.pl/

We are also on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SMYS.YRISM.2017/

The Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching International Conference and Exhibition (ALLT 2018) will be held from March 8-10, 2018 at Zayed University Convention Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, under the theme:

Language Teaching and Learning in a Globalized World

The conference organizers invite you to submit a proposal in areas relevant to the conference theme, including but not limited to:

• Teaching/learning language skills
• Teaching/learning language sub-skills 
• Globalization and Language Teaching
• Teacher education and professional development
• Classroom-based Research and research-based teaching
• Adult language learning
• Early Childhood language learning
• Teaching approaches and classroom practices
• Curriculum development
• Technology-based teaching and learning
• Task-based learning
• Language assessment
• Student motivation
• World Englishes and language teaching / learning
• Bilingualism and multilingualism
• CLIL (Content and Language Integrated learning)

Presentation Methods

• Oral Presentation (30 mins) – 20 minutes presentation, and 10 minutes discussion
• Poster Session (1 hour) – Maximum poster size A0 
• Workshop (30 mins)
• Workshop (60 mins)

To submit an abstract, go to: https://mcime.eventsair.com/PresentationPortal/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FPresentationPortal%2Fallt2018%2Fabstract-submission

To find out more about the conference, go to: http://allt-uae.org

CALL FOR PAPERS

Theme: "Taking Risks in Applied Linguistics"

 6 - 8 September 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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  

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)

Call for Proposals

Translanguaging: Opportunities and Challenges in a Global World

 

 Plenary speakers: 

Ofelia García (City University of New York)

Guillaume Gentil (Carleton University)

Danièle Moore (Simon Fraser University)

Venue: Canadian Centre for Studies and Research on Bilingualism and Language Planning (CCERBAL), Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (OLBI), University of Ottawa.

Conference dates: May 3-4, 2018.

Deadline for proposals: December 15, 2017.

Featured events: Round tables and thematic symposia on Linguistic Risk-Taking, Bilingual and Multilingual Policies, and much more.

Conference theme: Translanguaging, a construct referring to the complex use of more than one language as a (combined) resource, has captured the imagination of researchers, educators, and policy makers around the world. The role of translanguaging as a linguistic and social practice in family, community, educational and institutional contexts raises a number of stimulating and challenging questions that call for continued discussion. 

Proposals for oral presentations, posters, workshops, thematic symposia and round tables addressing the conference theme from multidisciplinary perspectives (educational, linguistic, social, psychological, policy, etc.) are welcome. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• The meaning and evolution of the term translanguaging over time and across disciplines, and its links with concepts such as plurilingualism and biliteracy.
• The role of translanguaging in bilingual/immersion education, language teaching and learning, and language assessment.
• Translanguaging rules, norms and practices in institutional settings (e.g. bilingual universities, government institutions, etc.).
• Links between Indigenous, minority, heritage and sign languages and translanguaging.
• Translanguaging in bilingual and multilingual societies around the world.
• Language policy and translanguaging.
• Translanguaging and family language policy.
• Technology and translanguaging.
• Translanguaging and intercomprehension.
• Translanguaging and its interrelationship with other issues and phenomena, such as code-switching, language contact, diglossia and heteroglossia, mixed languages, language variation and change, language attrition, language shift, language loss, bi-/multilingual child language development, bi-/multilingualism across the lifespan, superdiversity, migration, identity, globalisation, peace, etc.

Proposals will be accepted until December 15, 2017 online at the following address: http://ccerbal.uottawa.ca/en/activities/conferences.

Conference chairs are Nikolay Slavkov and Jérémie Séror (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

“LANGUAGE, IDENTITY AND EDUCATION IN MULTILINGUAL CONTEXTS” (LIEMC18) 

MARINO INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION – TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND

 1 – 3 February 2018

The conference considers all aspects of the linguistic and sociolinguistic competences and practices of bi-/multilingual speakers who cross existing social and linguistic boundaries, adopting or adapting themselves to new and overlapping linguistic spaces.

We invite papers in all areas of research in bi-/multilingualism, whether or not linked directly to the overarching conference theme, including, but not limited to, linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, clinical linguistics, education, bi-/multilingual societies.

Topics will include:

• (multiple) language acquisition and learning (L3, L4, Lx);
• psycho- and neurolinguistics of multilingualism;
• translanguaging;
• early bilingualism and heritage language development;
• speech processing in bi-/multilinguals;
• trans/multilingual language use in different contexts;
• multilingual education;
• bi-/multiculturalism;
• bi-/multilingual language policies;
• literacy in multiple languages (pluriliteracy);
• intercultural and globalisation issues related to multilingualism.

Proposals

The two categories of proposals are: (1) individual papers and (2) posters.

Individual papers: Papers are formal presentations on original research by one or more authors, lasting a total of 30 minutes (20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion). Please note that the time limit will be strictly adhered to.

Posters: Poster sessions are for displaying research that offers the opportunity for individualised, informal discussion of the research. Posters are especially effective for presenting work-in-progress, fieldwork and results of empirical research if data can be presented visually (e.g. charts, graphs, tables). A block of time will be designated when presenters are available to discuss their posters. Posters should be in the size of DIN A1 or A0 in portrait format. There will be a time slot dedicated to poster presentations.

Abstracts should be up to 350 words in length (including references).

The language of the conference is English.

Submission of proposals 

Submission is already open and will close on 15 November 2017. Presenters are requested to include their name, affiliation and email address in the submitted MS-Word documents. All proposals should be sent to: 

Evaluation of proposals 

Proposals will be evaluated in terms of quality of content, significance, originality, thematic relevance, and presentation.

Conference Presentation Policies

Individuals may submit a maximum of one abstract as first author, whether a paper or a poster.

It is assumed that all proposals represent original and unpublished work that is not yet available to the research community.

• the presenter must be a registered attending participant at the Conference
• the conference policy is that the author will present the paper on the day and time assigned by the conference program committee

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS

Monday, August 22 – Wednesday, August 24, 2016

University of Jyväskylä, Finland

We are now inviting proposals for presentations in this international conference, organized for the second time. The first one was held in Graz, Austria, in May 2014.

https://www.jyu.fi/en/congress/pll2016

Conference theme

The conference will focus on the role of psychology in learning and teaching languages and address among other things such key issues in the field as: learners and teachers as individuals with various aspects of their psychology involved, including self-concept, motivation, identities, beliefs, agency, emotions, strategies, styles, etc.; the learning process and its outcomes; and the diversity of contexts where the learning and teaching of languages takes place these days.

Academic programme

Talks by plenary speakers

o   Phil Benson, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (https://www.jyu.fi/en/congress/pll2016/programme/benson)

o   Maggie Kubanyiova, University of Birmingham, UK (https://www.jyu.fi/en/congress/pll2016/programme/kubanyiova)

o   Sarah Mercer, University of Graz, Austria (https://www.jyu.fi/en/congress/pll2016/programme/mercer)

Presentations by conference participants

The submission of proposals opens on February 1, 2016 and closes on March 15, 2016. This is done by filling out an online form at https://congress.cc.jyu.fi/pll2016/.

o   Types of presentations: 1) paper, 2) poster, 3) colloquium (with thematically related papers, discussion and audience participation), and 4) workshop (with hands-on activities based on some data or a specific topic)

o   Length of abstracts: paper or poster (300 words, max., including references), colloquium (500 words, max., including titles of papers but no mention of presenters by name; and if a proposal is accepted, an abstract will be requested for each paper, 300 words, max.); workshop (500 words, max.)

o   Length of presentations in the conference: paper (20 min. and 10 min. for questions and answers), poster (size AO, max.), colloquium (90 or 180 min.), workshop (90 min.)

o   Language policy: The language of the conference is English. If a presentation is based on data in any other language, use of multilingual material (e.g. in Power Point slides, handouts) is recommended.

The proposals for any type of presentation will be evaluated anonymously by at least two members of the PLL Scientific Committee and the Organizing Committee.

Proposal acceptances will be sent out by early May 2016.

The conference will be held in Paviljonki congress centre.

Registration will open on the conference website on May 2. Those whose proposals get accepted will have to register by May 15. The conference fee is EUR 225–300 for regular participants and EUR 100 for students, and it includes lunch and refreshments. 

The social programme will include a conference dinner in a restaurant with panoramic views over the City of Jyväskylä, and a half-a-day excursion to Mänttä, a great destination for lovers of fine arts and nature.

For any queries, please email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

We look forward to seeing you in Jyväskylä, Finland, in late August 2016.

Organizing Committee

AILA-Europe News

The next AILA-Europe Junior Researchers Meeting will take place in the context of the 50th Anniversary Congress of GAL, Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik, September 11-14, 2018, in Essen, Germany. https://www.gal-2018.de/home.html

Uncategorised Article Count:  15

Research Article Count:  4

About Article Count:  24

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.

Front News Article Count:  61

Application Article Count:  1

Publications Article Count:  13

To make the work in research and practice of AILA members more visible during the time between the triennialAILA World Congresses, AILA pursues a strategy of regionalization that aims at establishing closer international cooperation among Applied Linguists from more or less neighbouring countries who are affiliated to AILA by fostering joint events, projects and publications in the respective region. While such a close cooperation has been established in North America between AAAL (USA) and CAAL (Canada) for a long time, cooperation in other areas of the world, such as Asia, Europe, Latin America or Africa could be more intense.

Therefore AILA encourages the setting up of self-organized regional networks as a basis for more intense cross-border cooperation.

Research Article Count:  16

Resources Article Count:  3

Volumes Article Count:  26

The goal of the Solidarity Award Fund (SAF) is to raise an endowment fund to support scholars to attend AILA meetings (held every three years). These awards are for scholars whose papers are accepted for presentation at the conference, but who are from parts of the world where economies make it difficult, if not prohibitive, for them to travel to the conference. These individuals are the future of our profession and will be the leaders in Applied Linguistics in their countries. The goal of $50,000 for this fundraising campaign would provide funds for this purpose.

Fund-Raising Plan

SAF giving will be solicited in five recognized categories. In all instances gifts can be made in a single contribution or as a pledge over three years.

1. Foundation Donors:

Individuals, groups, and organizations that donate a minimum of $1,000 will be recognized as providing major gifts for the fund. These gifts will be mentioned in all publicity announcements for the fund (through the end of fund-raising campaign) and on the AILA website.

2. Scholarship Donors:

Individuals, groups, and organizations that donate a minimum of $800 will also be recognized in all publicity announcements for the fund (through the end of fund-raising campaign) and on the AILA website.

3. Charter Donors:

Individuals, groups, and organizations that donate a minimum of $500 will also be recognized in all publicity announcements for the fund (through the end of fund-raising campaign) and on the AILA website.

4. Honoraria Donors:

Individuals in this category provide honoraria they have received for the purposes of the endowment fund ($200 minimum, without specific amount noted). These individuals will be recognized during the 12 month period following receipt of their honoraria gift.

5. Fund Donors:

Individuals responding to the fund raising request will be listed in the next issue of AILA News and at the next Congress. (Standard donations amounts include $150, $100, $75, $50, $35, $25; Student donation amounts of $20, $15, and $ 10 will also be accepted and recognized). Of course, any donation of any size will be appreciated.

6. Special Gift Donors:

Any individual, group, or organization wishing to consider a special gift well beyond the categories noted above will be given special recognition. Interest in making a special gift can be discussed with This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (AILA Secretary-General) or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (AILA President).

7. Pledge Form

The pledge form is available in Word format or in PDF. Fill in the form, print it out, and return your contribution to:

Prof. Dr. Daniel Perrin ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences School of Applied Science IAM Institute of Applied Media Studies Theaterstr. 15 CH-8401 Winterthur Switzerland Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Awardees 2011

Tan Tin Dang – Vietnam

Doctoral student, La Trobe University

Paper: Learner autonomy: Perceptions of EFL undergraduate students across Asia

Budsaba Kanoksilapatham – Thailand

Associate Professor, Silpakorn University

Paper: Harmony of rhetorical organization across diverse academic disciplines: Experimental research articles

Amira Massaabi – Tunisia

Doctoral student, University of Manouba

Paper: The Role of Metadiscourse in Comprehending Research Articles in English: The Case of Geography Researchers

Diego Mideros – Colombia

Doctoral student, The University of the West Indies

Paper: Autonomy as a glocal phenomenon: A listening case study

Marie Perera– Sri Lanka

Professor, University of Colombo

Paper: Is Ability grouping an answer to large ESL classes in Sri Lanka?

Millicent Quarcoo– Ghana

Doctoral student, University of Ghana

Paper: Twi-English code switching in Ghana: Emerging forms and functions

Françoise Salager-Meyer – Venezuela

Professor, The University of the Andes

Paper: Languages for Specific Purposes: From disciplinary specificity and (critical) genre analysis to contextual and intercultural aspects of specialized discourse

Tazanfal Tehseem – Pakistan

Doctoral student, University of Sargodha

Paper: The Construction of Ideology in Journalistic Texts: A functional approach towards discourse analysis

List of Donors

Individuals

Organizations

• Multilingual Matters
• Mr. Li Pengyi on behalf of the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press and the China English Language Education Association (CELEA)
• AILA
• Educational Testing Service (TOEFL)
• JAAL-in-JACET
• British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
• German Association of Applied Linguistics (GAL)
• Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand (ALANZ)

Individuals

• Carol Chapelle
• Susan Gass
• Bill Grabe and Fredricka Stoller
• Folkert Kuiken
• Merrill Swain
• Jim Lantolf

Business/Publishers

• Oxford University Press
• Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
• Blackwell Publishers
• Routledge

Organizations

• American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
• Association Néerlandaise de Linguistique Appliqué (ANéLA)
• Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL)
• Singapore Association of Applied Linguistics (SAAL)

Individuals

Businesses/Publishers

• John Benjamins Associates

Individuals

• Andrew Cohen
• Claire Kramsch

Businesses/Publishers

• Cambridge University Press

Organizations

• Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (AItLA)
• Romanisches Seminar, University of Bassel

Individuals

Organizations

Individuals

• Jasone Cenoz
• Mary McGroarty

Organizations

• Modern Language Centre, OISE, University of Toronto

Awardees 2005

• Patricia Ames
  Researcher, Institute of Peruvian Studies, Peru
  Multigrade Schooling and Literacy in the Peruvian Amazon
• Visvaganthie Moodley
  Marburg Secondary School, South Africa
  Code-switching in a Multilingual English First Language Classroom
• George Openjuru
  Lecturer, Makerere University, Uganda
  The Literacy Practices of a Rural Community in Uganda
• Mohamed Yeou
  Assistant Professor, Chouaib Doukkali University, Morocco
  English Prenuclear Accents Produced by Moroccan Learners of English
• Hirut Woldemariam
  Assistant Professor, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
  Language Ideology and Linguistic Landscape: The Case of Tigray, Ethiopia
• Silvia Matravolgyi Damião
  Doctoral student, Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil
  ESP for Engineering Students in the Digital Age
• Hu Yijie
  Associate Professor, Shenzhen University, China
  Theorizing Teachers’ Beliefs: A Vista to Generate Their Theory
• Nadezhda Yakovchuk
  PhD student, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
  Combating Plagiarism: A Study of Guidelines for International Students
• Jelena Filipovic
  Associate Professor, University of Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro
  Ljiljana Djuric
  Ministry of Education and Sport, Serbia & Montenegro
  Julijana Vuco Associate Professor, University of Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro
  Language Education Policy in Serbia: Utopia or Reality?

Awardees 2014

Damira Akynova


L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan

Paper: English-Kazakh Code Switching within the Context of Foreign Language Classroom Environment

Awardee's Report

Rodrigo Borba


Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Paper: Whose Ethics? Whose Politics?: A Discourse-based Approach to the Depathologization of Transsexuality

 Awardee's Report

Vasantha Dhanapala


University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Paper: What Factors Contribute to L2 Text Comprehension?

Awardee's Report

Raquel Gamero


Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Brazil

Paper: Becoming a Brazilian Researcher: An Analysis of the Context, the Literature and the Activities Performed by Senior Researchers

Awardee's Report

Saakshi Manocha


Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Paper: Redeeming Saora Children’s Funds of Knowledge in MLE Schools of Odisha

Awardee's Report

 Mohamed Naashia


Maldives National University, Maldives

Paper: Bilingual Children’s Language Use and Linguistic Identity: Home Contributions and Family Language Policy

Awardee's Report

Hoa Hiep Pham
 Hue

College of Foreign Languages, Vietnam

Paper: World Englishes and Implications for Pedagogies in the English Language Classroom

Awardee's Report

Weiqiang Wang


Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China

Paper: Students’ Perceptions of the Effects of Rubric-Referenced Self-Assessment on EFL Writing

Awardee's Report

The Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, Ministry of Education and Culture, Cyprus, in collaboration with the University of Cyprus, announce the 2^nd International Scientific Conference on “Literacy and Contemporary Society”, titled: Spaces, Discourses, Practices.

The Conference will be held on 28-29 November 2017, at the “Filoxenia” Conference Center in Nicosia, Cyprus. 

More information on the Conference website http://www.pi.ac.cy/literacy 

Registration is now open:

http://www.pi.ac.cy/pi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1812&Itemid=109&lang=en

On behalf of the Organizing Committee,

Spyros Sofokleous

Cyprus Pedagogical Institute 40 Macedonia Avenue, 2238 Latsia P.O.Box 12720, 2252 Nicosia

Tel: +35722402485 Fax: 22560118,22402398

http://www.pi.ac.cy/literacy

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Theme: "Taking Risks in Applied Linguistics"

 6 - 8 September 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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  

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)

Call for Proposals

Translanguaging: Opportunities and Challenges in a Global World

 

 Plenary speakers: 

Ofelia García (City University of New York)

Guillaume Gentil (Carleton University)

Danièle Moore (Simon Fraser University)

Venue: Canadian Centre for Studies and Research on Bilingualism and Language Planning (CCERBAL), Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (OLBI), University of Ottawa.

Conference dates: May 3-4, 2018.

Deadline for proposals: December 15, 2017.

Featured events: Round tables and thematic symposia on Linguistic Risk-Taking, Bilingual and Multilingual Policies, and much more.

Conference theme: Translanguaging, a construct referring to the complex use of more than one language as a (combined) resource, has captured the imagination of researchers, educators, and policy makers around the world. The role of translanguaging as a linguistic and social practice in family, community, educational and institutional contexts raises a number of stimulating and challenging questions that call for continued discussion. 

Proposals for oral presentations, posters, workshops, thematic symposia and round tables addressing the conference theme from multidisciplinary perspectives (educational, linguistic, social, psychological, policy, etc.) are welcome. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• The meaning and evolution of the term translanguaging over time and across disciplines, and its links with concepts such as plurilingualism and biliteracy.
• The role of translanguaging in bilingual/immersion education, language teaching and learning, and language assessment.
• Translanguaging rules, norms and practices in institutional settings (e.g. bilingual universities, government institutions, etc.).
• Links between Indigenous, minority, heritage and sign languages and translanguaging.
• Translanguaging in bilingual and multilingual societies around the world.
• Language policy and translanguaging.
• Translanguaging and family language policy.
• Technology and translanguaging.
• Translanguaging and intercomprehension.
• Translanguaging and its interrelationship with other issues and phenomena, such as code-switching, language contact, diglossia and heteroglossia, mixed languages, language variation and change, language attrition, language shift, language loss, bi-/multilingual child language development, bi-/multilingualism across the lifespan, superdiversity, migration, identity, globalisation, peace, etc.

Proposals will be accepted until December 15, 2017 online at the following address: http://ccerbal.uottawa.ca/en/activities/conferences.

Conference chairs are Nikolay Slavkov and Jérémie Séror (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Native-Speakerism Across Languages and Contexts

Building upon the edited volume of Houghton and Rivers (Multilingual Matters, 2013), the AILA ReN is an expansion upon a 3-year research project (2012-2014) supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (24520627), which problematized native-speakerism as a language-based form of prejudice affecting language teachers. The AILA ReN aims to build an expanded international research network by engaging researchers in the exploration of native-speakerism in the teaching of various languages, taking into account both student and teacher perspectives, and institutional and policy levels across languages and contexts.

Multilingualism

This ReN deals with a research area which has developed during the past decennia and is now gaining increasing attention in our globalised world: multilingualism and multiple language acquisition and use. We research these areas from different perspectives: psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, intercultural communication, cognitive and social psychology, pedagogy, education policy, language policy. Some researchers focus on macro-aspects of multilingualism (minority groups, immigration, challenges for multilingual countries, education, justice and healthcare), others focus on micro-aspects, namely individual differences and their potential foreign language teaching implications.