New website (URL) coming soon (presently still at http://www.ichm.org/clil/)
Description:
As the intense activities of the ReN over its two terms have shown, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL, also referred to as immersion education or content-based language teaching) has not only been a highly popular educational innovation in Europe and elsewhere, but it has also attracted a wide range of research interests and undertakings. Given the urgency with which researchers are concerned with the diversity of local realisations of CLIL, the annual ReN meetings have provided its increasing number of members with the opportunity to engage in international exchange, disseminating their applied linguistic insights (empirical and methodological) about classrooms where the teaching and learning of curricular content happens in and through foreign or second languages.
For the present period, the CLIL ReN aims at ‘building bridges’ with respect to the following topics:
How is CLIL conceptualized from different theoretical frameworks, and how does this relate to learner-teacher interaction and to learner achievement in content and language?
How is CLIL operationalized in different national and cultural contexts, and how does this relate to learner-teacher interaction and to learner achievement in content and language?
What are the parallel and specific processes and outcomes of CLIL in multilingual settings: trilingual CLIL, CLIL in multi-ethnic classrooms?
How do CLIL processes and outcomes differentiate between primary, secondary, vocational and higher education?
How do language development and subject-specific cognitive development co-occur in CLIL settings?
Convenors:
Prof. Rick de Graaff,Position: ProfessorAffiliation: University of Utrecht
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Dr. Ute SmitPosition: Associate ProfessorAffiliation: University of Vienna
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Publicationsbased on ReN activities:
Dalton-Puffer. Ch. & Nikula, T. (eds.) 2006. “Current research on CLIL”. Special issue of VIEWS (Vienna English Working Papers) 15/3.
Dalton-Puffer, C. & Smit, U. (eds.) 2007. Empirical perspectives on CLIL classroom discourse. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang.
Smit, U. & Dalton-Puffer, C. (eds.) 2007. “Current research on CLIL 2”. Special issue of VIEWS (Vienna English Working Papers) 16/3.
Smit, U., Schiftner, B. & Dalton-Puffer, C. (eds.) 2010. “Current research on CLIL 3”. Special issue of VIEWS (Vienna English Working Papers) 19/3.
Dalton-Puffer, C.; T. Nikula & U. Smit (eds.) 2010. Language use and language learning in CLIL classrooms. Amsterdam: Benjamins AALS Aila Applied Linguistics Series.
The research network Media Linguistics links applied linguists who address crucial aspects of text production (written, oral and online) in the domain of public discourse in general and news media in particular. The aim of the newly emerging field of media linguistics is to investigate the highly complex and dynamic interplay of language use in public spheres, newsrooms, and news source domains such as business or politics. Appropriate inter- and transdisciplinary theories, methodologies, and solutions to practical problems in this emerging field of applied linguistics will be developed. It is suggested that media linguistics (in particular knowledge about news production processes) can significantly improve our understanding of language dynamics in an increasingly mediatized world.
Field of activity
“[T]here is a dearth of work on the production of news language (…)” That was how Allan Bell concluded his 2006 encyclopedia article about news language” (Bell 2006). How right he was. Investigating text production processes in media workplaces remains a gap in all the disciplines involved: writing research, communication studies, and applied linguistics. Linguistics first focused on written language, later describing conversations as processes, and only then rediscovered written language from a process perspective. But even today journalism and news media seem of little interest to most linguists investigating text production processes. Media discourse continues to be predominantly investigated from a product-oriented perspective or even as easily accessible everyday language.
In our ReN we will contribute to filling the gap mentioned not only by the sociolinguist Allan Bell, but also, among others, by Charles Bazerman (2008), in written communication and by Mathias Broth (2008), in media studies. Combining computer logging and ethnography from text production research, micro-macro perspectives from sociolinguistics and language teaching and training approaches from applied linguistics two of the future ReN participants (Daniel Perrin for the domain of journalism and Geert Jacobs for PR) began a series of increasingly complex field studies of professional text production in the mid-nineties: first local projects, then national, and finally those of European scope and framework. More and more researchers are now building on the research designs developed in these and other projects, not only for news production research, but also for investigating text production processes in domains such as translation, education, and academia. This experience of applying a process perspective to the linguistic analysis of media discourse is what we plan to develop further in an interdisciplinary framework and to take into the international community of applied linguistics.
We take the new brand of ‚media linguistics‘ described above to be the starting point for investigating socially relevant questions of language use such as how news comes into being. In our individual or joint publications, our conference panels, and other coordinated research activities, we will
outline the main research questions and methods, explain how media linguistics can be related to other disciplines and identify the added value that it brings to applied linguistics, to related academic disciplines and to the professional field under investigation.
develop research frameworks and questions for projects in which e.g. newswriting is investigated as a situated activity of language use and then related to psychobiography, social settings and cultural resources – to individual, organizational, and political empowerments and constraints.
systematically present and discuss new scientific knowledge – and the transformation of this knowledge, i.e. the application of linguistic knowledge generated by investigating individual, collaborative and organizational text production processes in the sample domain of journalism.
To sum up, this ReN is meant to show that a) the question of Allan Bell’s “dearth of work” is currently being addressed, and b) applied linguistics is in pole position to fill “the gaps”.
Activities of the ReN Media Linguistics
Joint research activities and endeavours which have already taken place
AILA 2008 symposium, featuring Aleksandra and Daniel
NT&T research network, featuring Geert, Tom, Ellen, Colleen and Daniel
IPRA 2009 panel, featuring Tom, Daniel and Ellen
ICA 2009 conference, featuring Daniel, Tom and Richard
The members of this ReN commit themselves to engaging in the following general activities in 2011-2014:
providing an overview of and bringing together the field of media linguistics as a distinct research area within applied linguistics;
documenting joint research activities in joint publications;
ostering the multinational and multilingual potential of the network;
encouraging new researchers to work in the field of media linguistics by promoting and supporting PhD studies and similar projects;
holding joint symposia and conferences prior to AILA 2014;
establishing the website www.lingua-media.net for information exchange and news publications in connection with the AILA website.
AILA Commitment
The members of this ReN commit themselves to filling a slot reserved for AILA Research Networks with a symposium at AILA 2014 and to bringing together the work of the three years in a joint proposal for a volume in the John Benjamins / AILA book series on the important aspects of this emerging field, to further establish it as a relevant area in AL.
Contact
Email:
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Current Members
The list of members contains nine researchers from six different countries, among them new scholars, and research on – and in – a wide range of languages including (in alphabetical order) Dutch, English, French, German, Swedish, . .
Jacobs, Geert Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics & NewsTalk&Text Research Group Ghent University, Belgium
Perrin, Daniel
Professor, Director of IAM Institute of Applied Media Studies, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Applied Linguistics, Switzerland. Institutional website/Personal website
Burger, Marcel
Senior lecturer, Director of the Center for linguistics and language sciences, Faculty of Letters, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Cotter, Colleen
Senior Lecturer (associate professor), Linguistics Department, School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Ekström, Mats
Professors of Media and Communication Studies, Örebro University, Sweden
Fitzgerald, Richard
Dr., Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Communication, University of Queensland, Australia
Gantenbein, Thomas BA, Research Assistant, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Applied Linguistics, Switzerland
Gnach, Aleksandra
Dr., ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Applied Linguistics, Switzerland
Gravengaard, Gitte
PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Van Hout, Tom Assistant Professor, Dept. of Journalism and New Media, Faculty of Arts, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Macgilchrist, Felicitas Dr., Research Fellow, Globalisation Research Unit, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany
Van Praet, Ellen
Assistant Professor, University College Ghent, Faculty of Translation Studies, Belgium
Tobback, Els
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics (French), Ghent University, Belgium
For activities of the ReN members see www.lingua-media.net
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 VucoAssociate Professor, University of Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro
Language Education Policy in Serbia: Utopia or Reality?
The AILA ReN on Folk Linguistics invites interested researchers to submit a paper to their session at the Sociolinguistics Symposium in Berlin, August 22-24, 2012. The Thematic Session is called:
Folk linguistics and society: People's ideas about the relationship between language use and social identity.
The session's id is 181.
Paper submission and information on the conference is available at
http://www.sociolinguistics-symposium-2012.de/
AILA ReN Folk Linguistics
The AILA Research Network (ReN) on Folk Linguistics (formerly: Lay Theories and Folk Beliefs about Language(s), Language Learning and Communication) decided to change the name of the ReN to the shorter and more widely known Folk Linguistics. This is one of the results of the first workshop on December 5, 2009 in Salzburg at the ÖLT (Österreichische Linguistiktagung) and the subsequent discussion.
At the ReN workshop, we were able to welcome guest speakers to share their research findings with us. We would like to say thank you to Marie-Luise Voggler, Christiane Dalton-Puffer and Julia Hüttner for their interesting presentations. Furthermore, we are happy to welcome Dennis Preston as a new member of our ReN.
The next ReN workshop took place in Bergen, Norway, from September 10-11, 2010. In Bergen, we prepared the application for a ReN Symposium at the 16th AILA World Congress in Beijing in August 2011.
At the ReN symposium in Beijing on August 25, 2011, the members of the ReN introduced various areas of folk linguistic interest in short presentations, allowing ample time for discussion with other reseachers and guests. We were pleased to welcome many interested colleagues to this event.
The next issue (24) of the AILA Review, which will appear shortly, is edited by the convenors of the ReN, Antje Wilton & Martin Stegu, and contains contributions by ReN members on a number of topics relating folk linguistic research to applied linguistics.
This webspace will soon provide more detailed information about the individual research interests of the ReN members and supply a comprehensive bibliography on folk linguistics.
ReN Outline
This research network comprises applied linguists who address various aspects of folk beliefs or lay theories as applied linguistic issues in their research. In general, the focus lies on beliefs on language and language learning and their relevance for decisions in people’s everyday and working lives, in particular in a language teaching context.
Well established in the study of second language acquisition, the quantitative as well as qualitative investigation of learner’s attitudes and beliefs provides insight into the motivational sources of language learning. Thus, knowing about folk beliefs can significantly improve the understanding of and the influence on teacher behaviour, teacher training, and the design of curricula and teaching materials.
More generally, the beliefs and decisions of the layperson have become more important and relevant for scientists of quite a number of disciplines mainly for two reasons: On the one hand the non-expert, lay person is flooded with a vast amount of information on any subject, and quite often this is scientific information diluted by didactic or journalistic procedures. The growing demand for information is reflected in the popularity of guide books, ‘docutainment’ programmes on television, presentations for the public on scientific topics as well as the introduction of systematic teaching of knowledge in early education. In addition, the internet makes information available on a large scale and of varying quality and detail. On the other hand, the growing trend of bringing one’s private opinion to public attention forces researchers to take more notice of such opinions and their relevance for people’s decision making processes. Chat shows and blogs are prime examples of settings in which lay people voice their opinions and theories.
These developments are becoming increasingly relevant for applied linguists especially in linguistically diverse regions. With the investigation of folk beliefs in areas that are relevant to the individual the linguist can gain insight into the formation processes, the manifestation in various forms of discourse and the relevance of such beliefs for people’s decisions and actions. Furthermore, the investigation of lay beliefs on the nature of translation and interpreting, language acquisition, multilingualism, language policy, intercultural and any other kind of communication problems etc. might raise the linguists’ awareness of people’s need for information on linguistic issues and might ultimately help to bring Applied Linguistics (and its researchers) to public attention.
Programme for Activities
The members of this ReN are currently engaging in the following activities:
providing an overview of and bringing together the field of lay theories and folk beliefs about language(s), language learning, and communication as a distinct research area within Applied Linguistics;
exchanging information with each other about the various aspects and findings in the field;
document joint reseach activities in joint publications;
fostering the multinational and multilingual potentials of the network;
encouraging more new researchers to work on the topic of lay theories by promoting and supporting PhD studies and similar projects;
providing information on activities and news publications on this webspace;
preparing a slot reserved for AILA Research Networks with a symposium at AILA 2011;
bringing together the work of the three years in a joint publication on the important aspects of this emerging topic to establish it as a relevant area in Applied Linguistics (AILA Review 24, forthcoming).
Contact
Prof. Dr. Antje Wilton ()
Current members
Prof. Dr. Martin Stegu (Convener)
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Prof. Dr. Antje Wilton (Convener)
University of Siegen, Germany
Prof. Dr. Karol Janicki
University of Bergen, Norway
Dr. Michael Pasquale
Cornerstone University, USA
Dr. Holger Wochele
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Prof. Dr. Dietmar Osthus
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Prof. Dr. Paveau, Marie-Anne
University of Paris, France
Prof. Dr. Achard-Bayle, Guy
University of Paul-Verlaine-Metz, France
Dr. Alessia Cogo
University of Southampton, Great Britain
Prof. Dr. Dennis Preston
Oklahoma State University, USA
Dr. Robert McKenzie
Northumbria University, Great Britain
Dr. Madalena Cruz-Ferreira
Singapore
Prof. Dr. Matteo Santipolo
University of Padua, Italy
Katiuska Santibanez
Universidad Catolica de la Santisima Concepcion, Chile and China
... Nadezhda Yakovchuk PhD student, University of Warwick, United Kingdom Combating Plagiarism: A Study of Guidelines for International Students Jelena Filipovic Associate Professor, ... Tuesday, 25 November 2008
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.
InJAL focusses on "working towards a truly international representation of work in applied linguistics, with equitable participation from different parts of the world" (Editorial 2007, 17/1, 1f.). This means on the one hand putting "particular emphasis on supporting authors and publishing papers from a wide variety of regions and cultures, thereby demonstrating that while the language of this journal is English (...), its concerns are by no means confined to what goes on in English-speaking communities", and on the other hand paying "particular attention in the reviewing process to the requirement that papers from diverse backgrounds make explicit how local issues in applied linguistics exemplify more global concerns". Since the issue 17.1, InJAL has published news from AILA: "InJAL will contribute to making the work of AILA better known to researchers, especially the opportunities this association creates for international networking and collaboration."
The International Journal of Applied Linguistics InJAL is published in co-operation with AILA. In 2007, AILA has given its official endorsement of InJAL. The union will promote the goal of encouraging international scholarship that both the Journal and the Association share. AILA members receive a 20% discount on InJAL.
Homepage: http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0802-6106
English as a lingua franca (ELF) is a thriving field of research which has found its place in applied linguistics in the last decade. During this time we have seen an increasing number of publications and research projects on ELF, such as the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) and the corpus of English as a Lingua Franca in Academic Settings (ELFA), the foundation of annual ELF conferences and most recently the creation of a dedicated journal (Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, issue 1.1 published in March 2012) and an ELF book series (Developments in English as a Lingua Franca).
ELF research focuses on the use of English in intercultural situations where speakers with different linguacultural backgrounds share English as their common means of communication and as a dynamic and co-constructed linguistic resource. ELF research has been conducted on different linguistic levels, such as phonology, lexicogrammar, pragmatics and the intersections of these. In addition, studies on ELF have explored various domains, including business and academic settings, and have expanded in different dimensions of investigation, including attitudes and identity, (inter)cultural aspects and pedagogical implications.
With an increasing amount of empirical descriptions available, some of the burning questions about ELF concern applied linguistic matters of language teaching and communication training, language policy, language awareness and multilingualism. Other issues concern methodological questions, which relate to qualitative and quantitative approaches as well as to technological aspects of corpus linguistic applications. An important future development of ELF as a field in applied linguistics would seem to be furthering collaborations with researchers from different disciplines, within and outside linguistics.
It is the aim of this research network to serve as forum for debate, discussion and more extensive collaboration among researchers and applied linguists who are actively involved in ELF research. The network currently includes over 65 participants (from more than 20 countries) who have various areas of expertise within ELF research. They include scholars at different stages of their careers, ranging from PhD students to very experienced academics, all of whom will help advance ELF research and applied linguistics by bringing in their different disciplinary and cultural perspectives.
If you are actively involved in ELF research and are interested in joining the network please contact the ELF-ReN convenors:
Dr. Alessia Cogo, University of Southampton
Email:
Dr. Marie-Luise Pitzl, TU Dortmund University
Email:
ELF-ReN Activities
The annual ELF conferences (University of Helsinki in 2008, University of Southampton in 2009, University of Vienna in 2010, Hong Kong Institute of Education in 2011, Bo?aziçi University Istanbul on May 24-26 2012) provide excellent opportunities for research exchange on ELF and for meeting other ELF-ReN participants. With the acceptance of this AILA ReN on ELF in February 2012, short ELF-ReN meetings will from now on be organized at each ELF conference.
The next ELF conference and ELF-ReN meeting is:
5th International Conference on English as a lingua franca (ELF5), Conference Theme: Pedagogical Implications of ELF in the Expanding Circle, 24-26 May 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.
ELF-ReN workshops
In addition to the ELF conferences, one or two themed smaller ELF-ReN workshops will be organized per year.
The next ELF-ReN workshop is:
1st ELF-ReN Workshop, Workshop Theme: ‘Teaching (B)ELF and/or Intercultural Communication?’, organized by Susanne Ehrenreich & Marie-Luise Pitzl, 22-23 June 2012, TU Dortmund University.
For further details on this workshop, please contact:
The 2nd ELF-ReN Workshop will take place at the University of Southampton (tbc). For any information please contact Alessia Cogo
Complexity figures prominently in current science (Mitchell 2009), including the language sciences where it has received much attention from linguists working within functional and typological frameworks (Miestamo et al 2008). Also in SLA research the notion of complexity has played an important role ever since the 1970s. In current SLA research, two strands of complexity research can be distinguished (Housen & Kuiken 2009). In the first strand, complexity figures as an independent variable, i.e., as a factor whose influence on some aspects of L2 performance or proficiency is investigated. Examples include studies of how the complexity of tasks affects L2 performance and development (Robinson 2011), or how the complexity of the target structure affects the effectiveness of instruction (e.g. Spada & Tomita 2010). In the second strand, complexity is investigated as a dependent variable, typically alongside fluency and accuracy, as a basic descriptor of L2 performance and proficiency. Here, the complexity of L2 learners’ performance is measured to demonstrate the effect of other variables, such as the effects of learner factors (e.g. age, aptitude) or of different types of instruction or of learning contexts (e.g. Kormos & Trebits in press; Norris & Ortega 2000). However, a review of the L2 literature shows that there is no consistency in terms of how complexity is defined, operationalised and measured in L2 research, which at least partly explains the inconsistency of complexity findings both across and within studies (Housen & Kuiken 2009; Housen, Kuiken & Vedder 2012).
The goals aimed at the Ailla REN COSELL are the following:
investigate the various strands of L2 research on complexity;
critically approach the definition and operationalisation of the complexity construct;
standardisation and validation of measures of complexity;
investigate the link between L2 complexity and other constructs in SLA and testing (e.g. developmental stages, learnability, ultimate attainment);
cross-linguistic approaches and perspectives on complexity;
pedagogical implications (e.g. complexity as skill or typical behaviour, complexity in L2 production and perception, task sequencing)
ReN conveners and contact
Folkert Kuiken, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Melissa Baralt, Florida International University, Miami
Philip Choong, Columbia University, New York
Daniel Jackson, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu
Shawn Loewen, Michigan State University, Michigan
John Norris, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu
Lourdes Ortega, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu
Sholo Sasayama, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu
Mary Lou Vercellotti, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
ABLA (Belgium)
Bram Bulté, Free University Brussels, Brussels
Alex Housen, VUB, Brussels
Elke Peters, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven
AESLA (Spain)
Roger Gilabert Guerrero, University of Barcelona, Barcelona
AFinLA (Finland)
Raili Hilden, Helsinki University, Helsinki
Lea Nieminen, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä
Nina Reiman, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä
Gabriele Pallotti, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia
Stefania Ferrari, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia
AITLA (Italy)
ALAK (South Korea)
Jay Kim, Korean National University of Education.
ALANZ (New Zealand)
Rebecca Adams, University of Auckland, Auckland
ANéLA (the Netherlands)
Nel de Jong, Free University, Amsterdam
Folkert Kuiken, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Rob Schoonen, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Ineke Vedder, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Nivja de Jong, University of Utrecht, Utrecht
ASLA (Sweden)
Inge Bartning, Stockholm University, Stockholm
Victorine Hancock, Stockholm University, Stockholm
Rakel Österberg, Stockholm University, Stockholm
Jonas Granfeldt, Lund University, Lund
Marie Kallkvist, Lund University, Lund
Petra Bernardini, Lund University, Lund
Malin Ågren, Lund University, Lund
BAAL/IATEFL (UK)
Judit Kormos, University of Lancaster
Andrea Revesz, University of Lancaster
Anna Trebits, Eötvös University, Budapest
EAAL (Estonia)
Annekatrin Kaivapalu, Tallinn University, Tallinn
GAL (Germany)
JAAL (Japan)
Tomohito Ishikawa, Soka Women's College, Tokyo.
Peter Robinson, Ayoama Gakuin University, Tokyo.
Activities (2011-2014)
Conferences and events (2011)
Bartning, I. & Hancock, V. took the initiative to set up a discussion group on Complexity in L2 at EuroSLA 21, Stockholm. September 9, 2011
Housen, A., Kuiken, F. & Vedder, I. Complexity in L2 performance. Definition, measurement and research. Colloquium at Eurosla 21, Stockholm. September 8, 2011
TBLT 2011. 4th Biennial Conference on Task Based Language Teaching. University of Auckland. November 18-20, 2011
Upcoming events
Workshops on Complexity and Idiomaticity in L2, June 8-9 2012, organizers: Fanny Forsberg & Victorine Hancock, Stockholm University, Stockholm
Eurosla 2012, Poznan, Poland, 5-8 September 2012
AILA 2014: organization of a symposium on complexity; special focus, design and participants of the colloquium still to be decided
Publications
Robinson (ed.) (2011). Second language task complexity: Researching the Cognition Hypothesis of language learning and performance. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Housen, A., Kuiken, F. & Vedder, I. (eds) (2012, forthcoming) Dimensions of L2 performance and proficiency. Investigating complexity, accuracy and fluency in SLA. Amsterdam: John Benjamin
The foundation of AILA was agreed upon at the International Colloquium of Applied Linguistics at the University of Nancy, France (hence AILA's French name), 1964. This decision was a result of two years preparatory work and discussion, with the financial support of the Council of Europe. At that time, the clientele to be served by this new international association was restricted mainly to linguists and language teachers in Europe. The first president of AILA was Bernard Pottier, supported in organizational and administrative matters by Max Gorosch. The founding congress of AILA in Nancy was almost exclusively run in French, and the main strands into which the contributions were organized were automatic translation, language teaching and research cooperation in Europe.
Bernhard Pottier had no direct successor until 1969, when at the Second International Congress of Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (in fact the first one with this title) AILA was virtually refounded and Pit Corder was elected President and Bertil Malmberg became Secretary General. It was from then on that AILA got a constant organizational structure and that AILA Congresses were held on a triennial basis. Also from then on, English became the de facto lingua franca in AILA, although the Association was officially French / English bilingual from its beginning and still is today. This congress also became prototypical for all following AILA Congresses in that its strands represented the key issues in Applied Linguistics of the respective time - in that case, the psychology of second language learning, sociolinguistics, and contrastive linguistics.
Originally a European initiative, AILA has become truly global over the past 40 years, including now affiliates from Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America.
With special thanks to the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) for a generous contribution towards the Solidarity Award we are pleased to announce this year's awardees:
Anita Pavic Pintaric – Croatia Research assistant, University of Zadar Paper: Modifications of Idioms in the German and Croatian language of fashion
Pinky Makoe – South Africa Lecturer (on leave), University of the Witwatersrand Paper: Constructing Identities in Multilingual Classrooms in South Africa
Ayu'nwi N. Neba – Cameroon Lecturer, University of Buea Paper: The English Language Teacher and the Falling Standards of English/Education in Cameroon
Teresa Wlosowicz - Poland Doctoral student in the 'co-tutelle' system, University of Silesia and Marc Bloch University Paper: L2 and L3 Word Representations in the Multilingual Lexicon
K. Kanthimathi – India Research Scholar, Indian Institute of Technology Paper: TANGLISH: A byproduct of Tamil and English language contact
Dora Francisca Edu-Buandoh – Ghana Lecturer, University of Cape Coast Paper: Syntactic Structures Used In Educated Ghanaian English to Mark Politeness
Hassan Belhiah – Morocco Assistant Professor, AlAkhawayn University Paper: The functional uses of gesture in the activity of definitions
I-Hsin Liu – Taiwan Doctoral student, University of Leuven Paper: Acquiring L2 vocabulary from reading-and-writing tasks
Kizitus Mpoche – Cameroon Senior Lecturer,University of Yaounde I ; Executive Secretary of the Cameroon Association of Applied Linguistics (CAMAAL) Paper: Second Language Learning in a Multilingual Setting: The Primary School Experience in Cameroon
Hong Zhu – China Associate Professor, Northeast Normal University (NENU) Paper: The power of language: Chinese immigrants’ integration into Canadian society
Simplice Simeu – Cameroon Doctoral student, University of Yaounde Paper: The Roles Of Cross-border Languages On The Africa’s Development
Katarzyna Papaja – Poland Doctoral student, University of Silesia Paper: Language development in CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Language)
Fernando Ferreira-Junior – Brazil Assistant Lecturer, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Ouro Preto Paper: Form, function and frequency in the learning of constructions
Han Han – China Doctoral student, Queen’s University Paper: College English Teachers’ Change in Beliefs and Conceptions: A Case Study
Huynh Cong Minh Hung – Vietnam Lecturer, Hochiminh City University of Pedagogy Paper: Split attention in reading comprehension: a case of English as a second/foreign language (ESL/EFL)
Dudu Jankie – Botswana Lecturer, University of Botswana Paper: Textbooks as representation of diversity issues: Analysis of language textbooks in Botswana schools
Shahabaddin Behtari – Iran Lecturer in ELT, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil Branch Paper: Task-elicited variability: What does text access have to offer?
Razaul Karim Faquire – Bangladesh Associate Professor and Researcher, University of Dhaka Paper: Learner Variety of Modality in the Emergent Interlanguage of Japanese
Carolina A. Nunez – Philippines Assistant Professor, Ateneo de Manila University Paper: Coherence Features of Compositions Written by Filipino College Freshmen
Vanessa Borges de Almeida – Brazil Doctoral student, Universidade Estadual Paulista – UNESP Paper: The issue of pronunciation and events of language testing in a Brazilian teacher education context
Renata de Oliveira Razuk – Brazil Doctoral student, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Paper: Verb transitivity in Portuguese as a third language: prepositional transfer from English L1 and Spanish L2
>> Multilingua Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Editor: Richard J. Watts Multilingua is an international interdisciplinary journal aimed at the enhancement of crosscultural understanding through the study of interlanguage communication.
To this end it publishes articles in fields as diverse as:cross-cultural differences in linguistic politeness
>> Multilingua Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Editor: Richard J. Watts Multilingua is an international interdisciplinary journal aimed at the enhancement of crosscultural understanding through the study of interlanguage communication.
To this end it publishes articles in fields as diverse as:cross-cultural differences in linguistic politeness
The need for more regional cooperation among Applied Linguists is obvious in Europe in particular, where there always has been a vast amount and a wide variety of work in Applied Linguistics, but where cross-border cooperation so far takes place only on a smaller scale.
At a meeting hosted by the Free University of Bolzano, Italy, September 2006, to increase intra-European cooperation, a group of European AILA affiliates agreed with the then AILA Secretary General, Karlfried Knapp, to set up a Network of European Applied Linguists (AILA-Europe).
Started in 2005, this new series includes edited books and monographs on different areas of Applied Linguistics. The series aims at representing the field in its diversity and includes high quality volumes which are externally reviewed and published by John Benjamins.
AILA Review is the official scholarly journal of AILA. Its first issue appeared in 1984, and from 1989, all volumes are guest-edited and thematically oriented. They include original unpublished contributions dealing with topics relevant to the scope of Applied Linguistics.
Up to Volume 16, the journal was published by AILA itself. From Volume 16 onwards, AILA Review is published by John Benjamins.
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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.
AILA is looking for researchers interested in organizing Research Networks (ReN) focused on special topic areas of Applied Linguistics. If you would like to work internationally on your area of research together with other scholars from all over the world, you might consider applying to be a ReN organizer.
What is a ReN?
Research Networks (ReNs) seek to promote research and its dissemination in all academic areas of AILA, with a particular focus on areas that have the potential for new cross-disciplinary research.
ReNs exist for three years and can be renewed. At any point in time, there will be about 15 ReNs in existence. Reapplications are required every three years by the criteria listed below:
at least five members, some of whom should be new scholars,
multinational composition with universities from at least three countries,
participants are active in the research area of the ReN pertaining to applied linguistics,
a program for research activities for the three years between congresses, including a commitment to present a symposium at the upcoming AILA World Congress and an organizer (one of the members) who liases with the ReN Coordinator.
How to set up a ReN
For applications, the ReN organizer must submit a proposal to the ReN Coordinator. The deadline for submission is two months after the World Congress. The proposal should consist of
a statement concerning the scope of the ReN,
a list of the participants of the ReN and their affiliation,
a plan for ReN activities for the upcoming three years, and
a commitment to fill their ReN symposium slot at the AILA Congress three years hence.
Each ReN organizer is responsible for a brief written report to the ReN Coordinator every three years (2 months after the congress).
Applications to set up a ReN should be directed to the AILA ReN Coordinator and the decision on the acceptance of the proposal will be notified to the ReN organizers no later than two months after the proposal submission deadline.
Research Networks Coordinator
Prof. Qiufang Wen
National Research Center for Foreign Language Education Beijing Foreign Studies University 2 Xisanhuanbei Road, 100089, Beijing
