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18. - 20.6.2008, Hong Kong, China

http://www.hku.hk/clear/conference08/

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.

The Conference is co-hosted by the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Education in collaboration with the English Centre, The University of Hong Kong, and funded as part of the University's Strategic Research Theme on "Languages, Media and Communication: Language in Education and Assessment".

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A book proposal for the AALS should follow the outline given below.

1. Information about the book

1.1 About the Manuscript

1. Autor(s)/Editor(s) name(s)
2. Title (tentative)
3. Subtitle (if applicable)
4. Estimated length (note that the volumes in the AILA Applied Linguistics Series (AALS) should be between 70.000 and 100.000 words, that is, between 175 and 200 printed pages)
5. Expected manuscript completion date

1.2 Outline of the Book

1. Type of book (e.g. research monograph, collection of articles, reference work, text book)
2. Purpose of the book (please write a concise description of the volume, up to 500 words)
3. Outline of the contents (draft table of contents and a short description of each chapter)

1.3 Market for the Book

1. Intended readership
2. Competing publications (any publications your manuscript is related to or will directly compete with. Please include author(s)/editor(s), title, publisher, and price if known)

2. Information about the Author(s) /Editor(s)

2.1 Personal Data

1. Name
   1. firstname
   2. (middle name)
   3. lastname
   4. (second lastname)
2. Male/Female
3. Academic title
4. Academic affiliation
5. Date of Birth

2.2 Contact Information

2.2.1 Home Address

1. Street
2. City
3. Country
4. Phone
5. Fax
6. E-mail

2.2.2 University Address

1. Department
2. University
3. Street
4. City & Postal/Zip code
5. Country
6. Phone
7. Fax
8. E-mail

Please tell us which address you prefer for correspondence.

1.5 Personal Profile

Please attach your curriculum vitae including titles, publishers, and publication dates of any previous books and journal articles. Please mention also your fields of academic interest.

3. AILA Publications Coordinator

Please send your proposal with all this information by e-mail or postal mail to:

Prof. Jasone Cenoz

Dept. Of Research Methods in Education University of the Basque Country Tolosa Hiribidea 70 20008 Donostia-San Sebastian Spain

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AILA issues three different publications:

• AILA News
• AILA Review
• AILA Applied Linguistics Series (AALS)

AILA News

AILA News is a twice yearly newsletter with information on internal matters of AILA and its affiliates. It is edited by Richard Baldauf and Steward Campbell. They restarted the AILA News (New Series) as an electronic publication in 1998. It is distributed online to all AILA affiliates, associates and individual members.

AILA Review

AILA Review is a scholarly journal of AILA. Its first issue appeared in 1984, and from 1989, all volumes are guest-edited and thematically oriented. Up to volume 16, the journal was published by AILA itself. From volume 16 onwards, AILA Review is published by John Benjamins.

AILA Applied Linguistics Series (AALS)

AILA Applied Linguistics Series (AALS) is a book series published under the editorial responsibility of AILA at John Benjamins, Amsterdam.

Third Party Publications

The International Journal of Applied Linguistics (InJAL) publishes articles that explore the relationship between expertise in linguistics, broadly defined, and the everyday experience of language. Its scope is international in that it welcomes articles which show explicitly how local issues of language use or learning exemplify more global concerns.
Homepage: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/IJAL

Prof. Karlfried Knapp

AILA Secretariat

Angewandte Linguistik Universität Erfurt Postfach 900221 D-99105 Erfurt, Germany

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/

Membership in AILA has the following benefits:

• Participation in international research and practice through its Research Networks (ReN)
• Access to the triennial AILA World Congress at a reduced rate
• Free news and report service through the twice-yearly AILA NEWS and this web site
• Free issues of the annual AILA Review
• Discounts for volumes of the AILA Book Series
• Discounts for the subscription of various scholarly journals (see list of Journal Discounts)

There are various types of membership in AILA. Individuals can be a member of AILA by membership in a national or regional Association of Applied Linguistics affiliated to AILA or by becoming an individual member of AILA.

Every three years, AILA holds its international World Congress. This congress is the biggest event in Applied Linguistics, bringing together - usually more than 2.000 - researchers and practitioners from all areas of Applied Linguistics for five days.

The Congress is characterized by high level presentations and discussions on key issues of the field. Its format includes keynote addresses, plenary speeches by outstanding scholars, invited symposia, symposia, individual papers and poster presentations.

The first AILA Congress took part in Nancy, France, 1964, presenting in its strands cutting edge findings from theory and practice of the time. Following this model, the programs of the Past Congresses represent the history of the discipline.

Each congress is organised by a different national or regional affiliate. The congress sites alternate between different areas of the world to reflect the global character of AILA.

Membership in AILA has the following benefits:

• Participation in international research and practice through its Research Networks (ReN)
• Access to the triennial AILA World Congress at a reduced rate
• Free news and report service through the twice-yearly AILA NEWS and this web site
• Free issues of the annual AILA Review
• Discounts for volumes of the AILA Book Series
• Discounts for the subscription of various scholarly journals (see list of Journal Discounts)

There are various types of membership in AILA. Individuals can be a member of AILA by membership in a national or regional Association of Applied Linguistics affiliated to AILA or by becoming an individual member of AILA.

Prof. Karlfried Knapp

AILA Secretariat

Angewandte Linguistik Universität Erfurt Postfach 900221 D-99105 Erfurt, Germany

Prof. Jasone Cenoz

Dept. Of Research Methods in Education University of the Basque Country Tolosa Hiribidea 70 20008 Donostia-San Sebastian Spain

• Jean Marc Dewaele, Birbeck College, University of London, UK
• Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, University of Bristol, UK
• Nancy Horberger, University of Pennsylvania, US
• Rosa Manchón, University of Murcia, Spain
• Ann Pakir, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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Every three years, AILA holds its international World Congress. This congress is the biggest event in Applied Linguistics, bringing together - usually more than 2.000 - researchers and practitioners from all areas of Applied Linguistics for five days.

The Congress is characterized by high level presentations and discussions on key issues of the field. Its format includes keynote addresses, plenary speeches by outstanding scholars, invited symposia, symposia, individual papers and poster presentations.

The first AILA Congress took part in Nancy, France, 1964, presenting in its strands cutting edge findings from theory and practice of the time. Following this model, the programs of the Past Congresses represent the history of the discipline.

Each congress is organised by a different national or regional affiliate. The congress sites alternate between different areas of the world to reflect the global character of AILA.

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Prof. Karlfried Knapp

AILA Secretariat

Angewandte Linguistik Universität Erfurt Postfach 900221 D-99105 Erfurt, Germany

This page is intended to provide Applied Linguists with information and tools that are relevant for their work. In particular, this page will contain:

• A calendar of congresses and similar events
• Tools that are available online such as
  • Dictionaries
  • Fonts
  • IPA-Transcriptions
  • Language corpora
• Job opportunities

At this point, only the calendar of congresses and similar events is available. Fellow Applied Linguists are invited to suggest new congresses and events.

AILA issues three different publications:

• AILA News
• AILA Review
• AILA Applied Linguistics Series (AALS)

AILA News

AILA News is a twice yearly newsletter with information on internal matters of AILA and its affiliates. It is edited by Richard Baldauf and Steward Campbell. They restarted the AILA News (New Series) as an electronic publication in 1998. It is distributed online to all AILA affiliates, associates and individual members.

AILA Review

AILA Review is a scholarly journal of AILA. Its first issue appeared in 1984, and from 1989, all volumes are guest-edited and thematically oriented. Up to volume 16, the journal was published by AILA itself. From volume 16 onwards, AILA Review is published by John Benjamins.

AILA Applied Linguistics Series (AALS)

AILA Applied Linguistics Series (AALS) is a book series published under the editorial responsibility of AILA at John Benjamins, Amsterdam.

Third Party Publications

The International Journal of Applied Linguistics (InJAL) publishes articles that explore the relationship between expertise in linguistics, broadly defined, and the everyday experience of language. Its scope is international in that it welcomes articles which show explicitly how local issues of language use or learning exemplify more global concerns.
Homepage: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/IJAL

Prof. Karlfried Knapp

AILA Secretariat

Angewandte Linguistik Universität Erfurt Postfach 900221 D-99105 Erfurt, Germany

Prof. Karlfried Knapp

AILA Secretariat

Angewandte Linguistik Universität Erfurt Postfach 900221 D-99105 Erfurt, Germany

AILA is the acronym for Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée or International Association of Applied Linguistics.

AILA is the international federation of national or regional associations of Applied Linguistics. Through its member associations, AILA currently has a membership of more than 8.000 individuals worldwide who as researchers, policy makers or practitioners are active in the field of Applied Linguistics.

Applied Linguistics is an interdisciplinary field of research and practice dealing with practical problems of language and communication that can be identified, analysed or solved by applying available theories, methods and results of Linguistics or by developing new theoretical and methodological frameworks in Linguistics to work on these problems. Applied Linguistics differs from Linguistics in general mainly with respect to its explicit orientation towards practical, everyday problems related to language and communication.

The problems Applied Linguistics deals with range from aspects of the linguistic and communicative competence of the individual such as first or second language acquisition, literacy, language disorders, etc. to language and communication related problems in and between societies such as e.g. language variation and linguistic discrimination, multilingualism, language conflict, language policy and language planning.

AILA is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) enjoying Status B (mutual information and consultation) with UNESCO.

• All manuscripts should be addressed to the editors of the respective volume of AILA Review. All submission letters must specify that the manuscript submitted is not under consideration elsewhere and has not been published elsewhere in this or a substantially similar form.
• Contributions should be in English. If not written by a native speaker, it is advisable to have the paper checked by a native speaker.
• No page other than the cover pages should give the author's name. The review of the manuscript will be anonymous.
• Submit four double-spaced printed copies (preferably 12-point font) in conformance to the style as described in the unabridged submission guidelines for Eurosla proceedings. The length of the manuscript should not exceed 10.000 words. Include author name, title, full mailing address, e-mail address and telephone numbers.
• An abstract both in English and French should be included. This should not exceed 200 words.
• For the delivery of the final version, the article should be presented on disk and saved on IBM-PC compatible or Mac disk. Material should be saved in ASCII mode or 'non-document' mode, or 'text-only' mode. It should also be saved as a separate file in the author's normal word-processor format together with a note indicating the name of the word processor used. The format of the disk (PC or Mac) should also be labeled on the disk. An identical hard copy of the manuscript should be included.
• References in text should be according the style as described in the unabridged submission guidelines for AILA Review.
• Sample references:
  • Blackmore, S.J. 1982. Beyond the Body. London: Heinemann.
  • Clahsen, H. 1991. Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition [Language Acquisition & Language Disorders 14]. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• Essential notes (Footnotes/Endnotes) should be numbered in the text and grouped together at the end of the article. Diagrams and figures should not be any electronic files, for gray scales TIFF format is preferred, for line drawings EPS format.
• The author of an article will receive page proofs for correction. Corrected page proofs must be returned to the editors by the date specified in the letter accompanying the proofs. This stage must not be used as an opportunity to revise the paper. Because alterations are extremely costly, extensive changes will be charged to the author an may result in the article being placed in a later issue.
• Authors of articles will receive a complimentary copy of AILA Review in which their articles appear.

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A book proposal for the AALS should follow the outline given below.

1. Information about the book

1.1 About the Manuscript

1. Autor(s)/Editor(s) name(s)
2. Title (tentative)
3. Subtitle (if applicable)
4. Estimated length (note that the volumes in the AILA Applied Linguistics Series (AALS) should be between 70.000 and 100.000 words, that is, between 175 and 200 printed pages)
5. Expected manuscript completion date

1.2 Outline of the Book

1. Type of book (e.g. research monograph, collection of articles, reference work, text book)
2. Purpose of the book (please write a concise description of the volume, up to 500 words)
3. Outline of the contents (draft table of contents and a short description of each chapter)

1.3 Market for the Book

1. Intended readership
2. Competing publications (any publications your manuscript is related to or will directly compete with. Please include author(s)/editor(s), title, publisher, and price if known)

2. Information about the Author(s) /Editor(s)

2.1 Personal Data

1. Name
   1. firstname
   2. (middle name)
   3. lastname
   4. (second lastname)
2. Male/Female
3. Academic title
4. Academic affiliation
5. Date of Birth

2.2 Contact Information

2.2.1 Home Address

1. Street
2. City
3. Country
4. Phone
5. Fax
6. E-mail

2.2.2 University Address

1. Department
2. University
3. Street
4. City & Postal/Zip code
5. Country
6. Phone
7. Fax
8. E-mail

Please tell us which address you prefer for correspondence.

1.5 Personal Profile

Please attach your curriculum vitae including titles, publishers, and publication dates of any previous books and journal articles. Please mention also your fields of academic interest.

3. AILA Publications Coordinator

Please send your proposal with all this information by e-mail or postal mail to:

Prof. Jasone Cenoz

Dept. Of Research Methods in Education University of the Basque Country Tolosa Hiribidea 70 20008 Donostia-San Sebastian Spain

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