Zahadin Omar

All members of affiliated national organizations are automatically AILA members. Benefits include:

• Reduced rate at the triennial AILA World Congress
• Reduced rate at conferences of many AILA affiliates
• Participation in international research and practice through its Research Networks (ReN)
• Free access to the AILA Review and its discussion platform
• Discounts for volumes of the AILA Applied Linguistics Series
• Free access to exclusive news from the field worldwide

Individuals can be a member of AILA by membership in a national association of Applied Linguistics affiliated to AILA. Applied linguists in countries without a national AILA affiliate can apply for individual membership of AILA. Groups of scholars in such countries can apply for affiliate membership.

Guest-authored by Eri Kurniawan, President of IAAL

As a fairly young association in Indonesia, the Indonesian Association of Applied Linguistics (IAAL) is keen to be part of AILA primarily because we would very much like to strengthen international connections that will assist our members in a number of areas including international research networks, international publications and other initiatives in advancing applied linguistics. What we look forward to as a new affiliate is support, direction, and constructive feedback to facilitate the development of our association.

In September 2015, the United Nations adopted the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The goals imply direct attention to issues of language.

• AILA has had a longstanding relationship with UNESCO and therefore it is pertinent for AILA to highlight the role of applied linguists to the Sustainable Development Agenda.
• As applied linguists we should ask ‘What does the field of applied linguistics have to contribute to the realization of the SDGs?’
• Language is important for the formulation and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Applied linguists need to ask ‘What language related issues arise from the SDGs?’

• To reach all levels of society, applied linguists must address the language used for dissemination and equal exchange of ideas. Currently, it is mainly English.

• Applied linguists as a stakeholder in the engagement of issues arising from the SDGs. How can applied linguists complement the inputs of other stakeholders?
• Applied linguists should venture into more practical and policy-engaged linguistic efforts that aim to contribute to achieving the SDGs.
• Applied linguists should make their research relevant to national, regional and global policies and help facilitate collaborative research and funding.
• Applied linguists should look at the relationship between indigenous languages, traditional knowledge and sustainability.
• Applied linguists can highlight the importance of supporting the publishing of research in AL in other languages but English. Minority/indigenous/heritage languages cannot only be the object of research and/or sustainability actions, they also need to become the medium through which all this is shared.
• Applied linguists should also work in a “grassroots” fashion, supporting language communities, promoting languages in the workplace, in education etc.

See the original document: https://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/70/1&Lang=E

Dates and Venue: The 25^th conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE 25) will be held at Stony Brook University June 15-17, 2023. The conference is hosted by the Mattoo Center for India Studies and the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, along with a number of cosponsors.

Plenary Speakers: The plenary speakers for the conference will include Tobias Bernaisch and Joybrato Mukherjee (University of Giessen), Patricia Friedrich (University of Arizona), Rajend Mesthrie (University of Capetown), Devyani Sharma (Queen Mary University), and David Crystal (renowned scholar)(online presentation).

Theme: The theme of the conference will be World Englishes in a multilingual world, which usefully reminds us that the world Englishes (WE) enterprise is not simply concerned with discrete varieties of English from a geographical perspective, but, rather, by a wider vision of the role of English in language contact and language hybridity on a global scale. In this view, Englishes worldwide occur not in a sociolinguistic vacuum, but in contact with multiple languages in diverse regions throughout the world.

Those intending to give papers at the conference are encouraged to present research on the status, functions and features of Englishes in particular regions and countries, as well as on a swathe of related topics which may include the following:

Topics for Abstracts (Partial List): World Englishes and advertising World Englishes and applied linguistics World Englishes and bilingual creativity World Englishes and bilingualism World Englishes and code-mixing/switching World Englishes and corpus linguistics World Englishes and cultural linguistics World Englishes and discourse analysis World Englishes and economics World Englishes and English as a lingua franca World Englishes and English-medium instruction (EMI) World Englishes and intercultural communication World Englishes and language attitudes World Englishes and language change World Englishes and language contact World Englishes and language description World Englishes and language endangerment World Englishes and language policy World Englishes and language teaching World Englishes and language variation World Englishes and lexicography World Englishes and linguistic landscapes World Englishes and linguistic theory World Englishes and multilingualism World Englishes and pidgins and creoles World Englishes and pragmatics World Englishes and second language acquisition World Englishes and social media World Englishes and sociolinguistics World Englishes and the media World Englishes and world languages World Englishes and world literatures

World Englishes in historical perspective

Deadline: If you are interested in presenting at the conference, please send us your abstract (maximum 160 words) to the following email address: . The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is November 30, 2022.  However, if an early decision is required for Visa, travel grant or other purposes, please send your abstract right away and it will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Registration: It is currently planned that registration fees for presenters will be $395 for IAWE members, and $195 for student members. (Details and procedure for registration will be posted later.)

Other details:  Details about the conference program, accommodations, Visa requirements, travel, and all other aspects of the conference will be posted on this website in the coming weeks.   Be sure to visit this site frequently.

In the meantime, we would encourage you to send in your abstracts early and to start planning for this exciting event, which will once again bring together members (old and new) of the IAWE family.

Website: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/iawe25/index.php

Claire KRAMSCH, the founder of the ReCAL research network, shared with us excerpts from her AILA Lyon 2023 presentation to give us an overview of the network’s historical perspective and the developed or ongoing projects.

Decolonizing applied linguistics research: An editorial project

The Research Network ReCAL or Research Cultures in Applied Linguistics, was established in 2015 by the AILA Executive Committee. The role was to examine the cultural, political, epistemological and methodological diversity of applied linguistics research in the various countries, members of AILA; as well as the diversity of institutional conditions in which the research is conducted.

Since 2015, AILA has offered several symposia ReCAL in Europe and the United States for regional conferences on applied linguistics. And the Research Network has also been invited to coordinate a symposium at the AILA International Congress: in Brazil in 2017, by Paula Szundy and Rogerio Tilio; in the Netherlands in 2022, by Marjolijn Verspoor and Kees de Bot and In France in 2023, by Gregory Miras. This Research Network (ReN) focuses on three areas of interest:

1. Scientific culture. In order to know, how theories from Global North and Global South countries have been received, interpreted and put into practice in different countries with different intellectual, scientific and educational traditions.
2. Editorial culture. To determine the opportunities and constraints of publishing in English. In particular, how to publish in English without losing the conceptual, epistemological and pedagogical specificity of a research often conceived in a language different from English.
3. Pedagogical culture. To find out, what are the epistemological and political bases of language teaching in different education systems.

 
At the AILA International Congress in the Netherlands in 2022, the title of the symposium was “The dynamics of language, communication and culture in applied linguistic research in Latin America” and most speakers were English teachers in various Latin American countries¹. Participants sought to respond to changes due to globalization: inequalities and social justice; epistemological and ideological sequels of colonialism; deconstruction and postmodern theories concerning the language-identity-culture relationship; and the didactic foundations of language teaching.

One of the central themes of this symposium was the dominant role played by English in research on language learning and teaching, but also in the development of communicative and intercultural competence. How to teach English and conduct research in applied linguistics without necessarily adopting theories and pedagogies from the Global North? How to publish the results of this research in English but without neglecting the national and indigenous languages in which this research was conceived? Much of the discussion centered around the need to consider decolonization research and practices, but… What was meant by decolonization?

As organizers of the 2022 ReCAL symposium Claire KRAMSCH (Emerita Professor at Berkeley University), Harold CASTEÑEDA (PhD Professor at Universidad Distritital Francisco José de Caldas) and Paola GAMBOA (PhD Lecturer at Sorbonne Nouvelle University) have decided to coordinate a volume on the decolonization of research in applied linguistics in Latin America. In this volume, researchers from Colombia, Argentina, Brazil and United States of America, were invited to report on their work, adopting as much as possible a reflexive stance, but also to offer a critical analysis of their efforts to decolonize their research projects. In particular, they would analyze, using Spanish or Portuguese and English, their own locus of enunciation / lugar de enunciación / lugar de fala. The title of the volume is “Decolonization of applied linguistics research in Latin America: moving to a multilingual mindset” and it will be published in September 2023 by Routledge.

It was decided to ask each author to base his report and reflection on the notion of locus of enunciation, a term inspired by the work of researchers like Ramon Grosfoguel (2007)² from Puerto Rico, Walter Mignolo from Argentina and Catherine Walsh (2018)³, and Eduardo Diniz de Figueiredo (2021)⁴ from Brazil. In Latin America, the locus of enunciation adds a social, cultural, and political dimension to the French notion of situation of enunciation that comes from Benveniste (1966)⁵. By making explicit not only the questions of linguistic enunciation (who speaks? to whom? in what context?), but also the place from which we speak, the place from which one exercises real or symbolic power over others and the place from which one is subjected to the real or symbolic domination of others, we begin to define the contours of a “colonial” power in the acts of enunciation of the speaking subject.

Enunciation itself is no longer simply the discursive process by which a speaking subject is placed in particular spatiotemporal circumstances that vary according to the identity of the speaker and the listener. Rather, this situation of enunciation is itself created by the choices made by the interlocutors in exchange situations (face to face, on the telephone, in writing, etc.); and by the way they position themselves in relation to each other, in relation to the language they choose to speak (rather than another language), and the message they seek to communicate.

The term colonial here means more than the historical domination of one people by another. It is a relationship of forces between, for example: native speaker and non-native speaker, between English speakers and non-English speakers, between speakers of a dominant national language and speakers of indigenous or other minority languages, between users of binary or non-binary writing, between those who use standard grammar and pronunciation and those who use a non-standard way of speaking. But if this colonial balance of power is reflected in the way people talk, it doesn’t determine how people think. As Ramon Grosfoguel says, the place of enunciation is indeed the geopolitical place where the speaking subject is situated, but it does not necessarily dictate its epistemological positionality. Therefore, the possibility for the three of us to conceive an editorial project concerning a decolonization of scientific knowledge in research, teaching-learning and didactics of languages and in applied linguistics. As the title of Eduardo de Figueiredo’s article (2021) indicates, making explicit “the place of enunciation is a way of confronting epistemological racist discourse and decolonizing scientific knowledge” by levelling off its universalist aims and historicizing its claims to objectivity.

The symposium the RECAL research Network presented at the AILA International Congress in Lyon in 2023, stems from this volume and from the idea of this 20th congress, to move towards a more committed applied linguistics. This symposium with the theme “Diversity and inclusion in teacher’s development and pedagogic practices in culturally different educational systems” will be coordinated by Claire KRAMSCH and Paola GAMBOA.

Paola GAMBOA
Lecturer at Sorbonne Nouvelle Université
AILA ReN ReCAL Coordinator

¹Claire KRAMSCH. United States of America. Pedro GARCEZ. Brazil. Carmen GUERRERO NIETO. Colombia. Harold CASTAÑEDA. Colombia. Paola GAMBOA. Colombia & France. Lane IGOUDIN. United States of America. Matilde OLIVERO. Argentina. Yecid ORTEGA. Colombia & Canada. Gabriela TAVELLA. Melina PORTO. Carina FERNANDEZ. Argentina. Paula T CARRERA SZUNDY. Brazil. Rogério TILIO. Brazil. Nara HIROKO TAKAKI. Brazil. Jaime USMA. Janeth ORTIZ. Maure GUTIERREZ. Colombia.

²Grosfoguel, R. (2007). The epistemic decolonial turn: Beyond political-economy paradigms. Cultural studies, 21(2-3), 211-223.

³Mignolo, W. D., & Walsh, C. E. (2018). On decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis. Duke University Press.
⁴Diniz de Figueiredo, E. H., & Martinez, J. (2021). The locus of enunciation as a way to confront epistemological racism and decolonize scholarly knowledge. Applied Linguistics, 42(2), 355–359.
⁵Benveniste, E. (1966). Problèmes de linguistique générale. Paris: Gallimard.

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A project is underway at the University of Oxford to establish a free-at-the-point-of-access database of systematic reviews in language education. While we are doing this primarily by searching existing databases and journal websites, we want to ensure that we have covered as much ground as possible by asking our colleagues in the field to send us the bibliographic information for any relevant systematic reviews they are aware of. In addition to systematic reviews published in scholarly journals and independently published reviews, we are keen to include reviews that form part or all of doctoral theses. In all cases, reviews should address a question related to language education. We have provided more detail on what we mean by ‘systematic review’ and ‘language education’ below.

The reviews will form part of an electronic database that will allow researchers, practitioners and the lay public to locate easily systematic reviews in language education, and thus to help to promote practice and new research that is informed by robust syntheses of existing knowledge.

We will include reviews published in any language as long as there is an English language version of the abstract.

If you know of any reviews that meet these inclusion criteria, please email the bibliographic reference (and, if available, a link to the publication) to .

With thanks and best wishes,
Jessica Briggs Baffoe-Djan and Hamish Chalmers

Language, Identity and Education in Multilingual Contexts 4 (LIEMC 4) is to be held at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus from 19 to 20 October 2024. Confirmed keynote speakers are:

Simona Montanari, California State University
Sari Pietikäinen, University of Jyväskylä
Stavroula Tsiplakou, Open University of Cyprus
Ernesto Macaro, University of Oxford

The conference website is: https://liemc2024.wordpress.com

If you have questions re: the conference or you want to make a submission, please contact us at 

December 2–3, 2021

Novotel Centrum Hotel in Cracow, Poland

https://mlppkrakow.wordpress.com

The International Conference on Multilingual Learning: Policies and Practices (MLPP2) is to be held at the Novotel Centrum Hotel in Cracow, Poland from 2 to 3 December 2021.

Confirmed keynote speakers are:

• Elizabeth Lanza (University of Oslo)
• Zhu Hua (University of Birmingham)
• Mila Schwartz (Oranim Academic College of Education)
• Li Wei (University College London)

Submission deadline: 1 October 2021

Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

February 11-14, 2020

www.apclc2020seoul.kr 

The biennial Asia-Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference is now entering the fifth round with Seoul 2020, following upon the successes of Auckland 2012, Hong Kong 2014, Beijing 2016, and Takamatsu 2018. APCLC 2020 will be a gathering of academics and practitioners in corpus linguistics from the Asia Pacific area, where we talk about developments in the use of corpora in discourse analysis, lexical & grammatical studies, language acquisition, learning & education, lexicography, pragmatics & sociolinguistics, (machine) translation studies, and (digital) literary studies. We hope APCLC 2020 to be a forum for exchange in ideas and expertise, where we lay the foundations for future developments in the application of corpus resources in Asia and the Pacific. To this effect, we will highlight three specific areas for future development: new methods in textual data analyses; possible collaboration between academia and industry; and national corpora in Asia. Please join us in Seoul, APCLC 2020.

Important Dates

• July 31, 2019: Deadline for abstracts
• September 13, 2019: Notification of acceptance
• September 16, 2019: Early-bird registration opens
• January 10, 2020: Early-bird registration closes
• February 10, 2020: Pre-conference workshops
• February 11-14, 2020: Main conference (February 14, 2020: National Corpus Day)
• February 15, 2020: Excursion

List of Topics

• Corpora & Discourse Analysis
• Corpora & Lexical Studies
• Corpora & Grammatical Studies
• Corpora & Language Acquisition, Learning & Education
• Corpora & Lexicography
• Corpora & Pragmatics
• Corpora & Sociolinguistics
• Corpora & (Machine) Translation Studies
• Corpora & (Digital) Literary Studies.
• Corpora & Computational Linguistics
• Speech Corpora & Phonetics

Plenary Speakers

• Sylviane Granger (Université Catholique de Louvain – UCLouvain, Belgium)
• David Hoover (New York University, USA)
• Mark Davies (Brigham Young University, USA)
• Vaclav Brezina (Lancaster University, UK)
• Hong Won Suh (Yonsei University, Korea)

Keynote Speakers

• Michael Barlow (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
• Mark Brenchley (Cambridge Assessment, UK)
• Winnie Cheng (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
• Jae-Woong Choe (Korea University, Korea)
• Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University, Korea)
• Heokseung Kwon (Seoul National University, Korea)
• Vikram Ramanarayanan (Educational Testing Services, USA)
• Seok-Chae Rhee (Yonsei University, Korea)
• Ute Römer (Georgia State University, USA)
• Naixing Wei (Beihang University, China)

Venue

The conference will be held at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (http://apclc2020seoul.kr/?page_id=51)

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to 

Hosted by

• Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Association (APCLA)
• Korean Association for Corpus Linguistics (KACL)

Organized by

• BK21Plus Project, Department of English Language and Literature, Yonsei University
• Institute of Language and Information Studies (ILIS), Yonsei University.

Submission

Abstracts must be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apclc2020)

Introduction

Decades of interdisciplinary work have indicated how Language, Gender and Sexualities are co-constructed. This intersection constitutes a highly interdisciplinary field, thus drawing on a variety of pertinent fields, such as Sociolinguistics, Cultural and Political Anthropology, Discourse Analysis, Feminism, Critical Theory, and Media studies, to name a few. Currently, research on Language, Gender and Sexualities acknowledges the junctures among these fields, focusing on the complexities and hybridities that may emerge from their interactions. This dynamic has influenced academic work, and more broadly larger society, the professional sector, and politics.

However, diverse linguistic and discursive practices of gender and sexualities have been under unequal scrutiny, with most work concerning English or Romance languages. It is therefore necessary to bring analysis on the co-construction of Gender, Sexualities and Language to a larger variety of social contexts. Focusing on Asian language communities allows scholarship not only to enrich the knowledge of Gender and Sexualities, but also to discuss how systems, assignations and identities intertwine in various political, historical, social and cultural contexts. Asian linguistic and discursive landscapes offer a unique vantage point from which to view this intertwinement, and to develop new models of gender and sexuality which lie beyond our current knowledge.

To encourage further exploration of links between these fields, and of these fields in Asian society, we are seeking proposals for contributions for a special issue.

Call for papers

We invite proposals for papers for a Special Issue themed “Negotiating Gender and Sexualities in Asian Language Communities.” The Special Issue will be published in a highly tiered journal publication, positioning these fields within the context of Asian Society, conceived broadly. We welcome empirical research studies, as well as theoretical and methodological articles. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• The role of sexuality and sexualities in Asian social communities
• Queer identities in Asia and the negotiating of these personas
• Asian Masculiniites, Asian Feminities
• Asian Heterosexualities
• Racism, Gender and Sexuality
• Transnational representations of gender and sexualities
• Insults, Disgrace, Praise
• The changing role of women and men in Asian societies vis-a-vis western society
• Asian professional / socio-economic contexts and linguistic performance
• Gender and Sexualities in Asian Social Movements and Mobilisations
• Critical and theoretical perspectives on language in Asian communities, through a gender and sexuality framework
• Embodied approaches to Language, Gender, and sexuality, in Asian communities

Proposal Format & Submission

Submit a half-page abstract, of approximately 500 words + references, for a proposed article to the following:

Special Issue Editor

Professor Julie Abbou

, and/or

Include your full contact information and a draft title. For empirical studies, the abstract should introduce the topic and methodology, the data to be analyzed, and a summary of the results. Abstracts for theoretical and methodological articles should introduce the theme, and the structure of the article. All abstracts must precisely state and focus on the works and debates of their (sub)fields. Upon acceptance, all necessary style information will be forwarded to authors.

Peer Review

All manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review following the journal’s standard process.

Important Dates

Deadline for proposals: November 10^th, 2019

Invitations to submit a manuscript: December 1, 2019

Initial manuscripts due: February 1, 2020

Notification of review outcome: March 1, 2020

Final manuscripts due: September 1, 2020

Special issue publication Spring 2021

Applied Linguistics and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Language, Communication and the Professions

December 3-4, 2018

University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The conference aims:

• To raise interest in practical and policy-engaged linguistic efforts across different sectors (e.g. business, diplomacy, economics, health, technology) and communities;
• To discuss how language enables and disables individuals in different professions and communities;
• To explore the role of languages and skills in equipping the workforce and industry to deal with emerging issues and future challenges in the workplace;
• To deliberate on the language needs of vulnerable groups and how to manage this challenge within the SDG ecosystem.

Keynote speakers are:

• Professor Tan Sri Dato' Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, Rector, International Islamic
• University Malaysia; Senior Advisor, Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya
• Professor Vijay Bhatia, Visiting Professor, Hellenic American University, Athens (Greece) and Adjunct Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Professor Daniel Perrin, President, International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA), Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
• Marlies Whitehouse, Treasurer, International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA), Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

Highlights of the conference include a panel on Applied Linguistics in ASEAN and the MAAL-SAAL-TAAL symposium, a joint effort between the Malaysian, Singapore and Thailand Applied Linguistics associations.

The new AILA ASEAN will be launched during the conference with seven of the ten ASEAN countries represented in this new network: Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, Thailand, Philippines and Laos. The setting up of AILA ASEAN is part of the regionalization efforts of AILA which has seen a number of regional networks set up over the years. The new AILA ASEAN is also aligned with the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity 2025, a strategic plan to improve connectivity in the region. In this case, AILA ASEAN will assist with people-to-people connectivity bringing together applied linguists from the region thereby promoting inclusiveness and a greater sense of community. Given the common issues in Applied Linguistics in the region and across regions, AILA ASEAN will strengthen collaboration in regional and inter-regional activities including mobility of applied linguists.

Given the diversity in the region and Asian, European and other initiatives on narrowing the development gap, it is hoped that there will be an increase in mobility and research collaboration within ASEAN, in the ASEAN+3 framework and with other regions eg. Europe. AILA ASEAN can serve as a platform for applied linguists to discuss regional and global issues through a trans-disciplinary approach to tackle shared problems.  It can work with other affiliates to take a transnational approach to examining common challenges shared beyond national boundaries and  promote regional cooperation in establishing sustainable solutions.

Prof. Dr. Azirah Hashim President, MAAL

Vice-President, AILA

8 October 2018

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41st International Congress of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA)

April 17-19, 2024
Discourse Analysis and Language Teaching in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

The 41st International Congress of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA) will be held at the Universitat Politècnica de València from April 17 to 19, 2024, organized by the Department of Applied Linguistics of this university.

The motto, “Discourse Analysis and Language Teaching in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” is directly related to three major thematic axes of outstanding significance and impact within Applied Linguistics today. Firstly, the various ways that exist to analyze language and discourse, so that they fulfill a relevant function in society and serve for human development. Secondly, the teaching and acquisition of languages, a fundamental aspect in the global and interconnected world in which we live. And, thirdly, the reflection on artificial intelligence, a very new field that is being rapidly and deeply established among us, and that we must study rigorously from the point of view of Applied Linguistics.

Find out more here: https://aesla2024.upv.es/

BAAL CONFERENCE 2022
at Queen's University Belfast
1-3 SEPTEMBER 2022

THEME: INNOVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS

Official website: https://www.baalconference2022.com

BAAL 2022 will be hosted by Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The conference’s theme Innovation and Social Justice in Applied Linguistics reflects an increasing interest in research that responds to real-world concerns within and beyond the field. In the face of a global health crisis and rising socio-racial awareness, our theme invites discussions around innovative and socially just practices in a field that is experiencing the multilingual, spatial, and social justice turn all at once. The current times are transformative and we hope that the conference theme will enable proposals from across disciplines and sub-disciplines of applied linguistics to stimulate conversations about the field’s responses to global turbulence and shifts. We also invite proposals to generate meaningful dialogue around current issues in language research.

March 28 - 31, 2020

Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.

https://www.aaal.org/news/2020-call-for-proposals

The 2020 conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) will be held at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel in Denver, Colorado. Nationally and internationally, the AAAL conference has a reputation as a comprehensive and stimulating conference. Conference participants can look forward to in-depth colloquia, paper, poster, and round-table sessions, as well as topical and thought-provoking plenary presentations, excellent book exhibits, and plentiful opportunities for networking.

Plenary Speaker and Invited Colloquia Information

We have created an exciting program for the 2020 conference, reflecting the wide range of research interests in applied linguistics. Check out the plenary speakers and invited colloquia below:

Plenary Speakers

Mileidis Gort, University of Colorado Boulder
"Biliterate writing development in early childhood: Insights from young Latinx bilingual children’s explorations of oral and written language"

Alison Mackey, Georgetown University
"Cognitive-Interactionist SLA: Findings, new methods, and the big picture"

Onowa McIver, University of Victoria
“Indigenous language revitalization and applied linguistics: Paralleled histories, shared futures? What can we learn from each other?"

Suhanthie Motha, University of Washington
"Is an antiracist and decolonizing applied linguistics possible? Connecting the past to the future"

Deb Roy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Local Voices Network: bringing under-heard community voices, perspectives and stories forward for healthier public dialogue"

Invited Colloquia

"Re-articulations of language, race, and place in transregional settler colonialism"
Organizer: Patricia Baquedano-López, University of California, Berkeley

"Neuroscience of second language acquisition: Opportunities and challenges"
Organizers: Hyeonjeong Jeong, Tohoku University and Ping Li, Pennsylvania State University

"Learning languages with specific learning difficulties in the 21^st century: Perspectives of identification, assessment, achievement and teacher education"
Organizer: Judit Kormos, Lancaster University

"Advances in the study of semiotic repertoires: mobilities, modalities, spatialities"
Organizer: Annelies Kusters, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

"Reflect, revisit, reimagine: Conversations on 40 years of ARAL"
Organizers: Meg Malone, Georgetown University and Shondel Nero, New York University

"Braided histories – braided futures of Indigenous language reclamation work:  Retelling ancestral stories – storying new Indigenous linguistic futures"
Organizers: Sheilah E. Nicholas, University of Arizona and Kari A.B. Chew, University of Victoria

"Degrees of difficulty to learn an additional language: the role of typological distinctions and linguistic distances between the languages involved"
Organizers: Job Schepens, Freie University; Frans van der Slik, Radboud University; and R. van Hout, Radboud University

"Construct validity in interpreter testing" (Joint Colloquium with ILTA)
Organizer: Dr. Helen Slatyer from the Translation and Interpretation Program at Macquarie University in Sydney

Strands

Proposals are welcome in the following topic strands:

• Analysis of Discourse and Interaction (DIS)
• Assessment and Evaluation (ASE)
• Bilingual, Immersion, Heritage, and Minority Education (BIH)
• Corpus Linguistics (COR)
• Educational Linguistics (EDU)
• Language Cognition and Brain Research (COG)
• Language and Ideology (LID)
• Language and Technology (TEC)
• Language Maintenance and Revitalization (LMR)
• Language Planning and Policy (LPP)
• Language, Culture, Socialization and Pragmatics (LCS)
• Phonology/Phonetics and Oral Communication (POC)
• Reading, Writing, and Literacy (RWL)
• Research Methodology (REM)
• Second and Foreign Language Pedagogy (PED)
• Second Language Acquisition, Language Acquisition, and Attrition (SLA)
• Sociolinguistics (SOC)
• Teacher Education, Beliefs, and Identities (TED)
• Text Analysis (Written Discourse) (TXT)
• Translation, Interpretation and Language Access (TRI)
• Vocabulary and Lexical Studies (VOC)

New this year: You must select a primary strand for your submission. This is the strand in which your submission will very likely be reviewed and grouped. If applicable, please choose a secondary strand that also characterizes the submission. This will help conference organizers in preparing the conference program and in some instances, balancing size and coherence of strands. You must choose a primary strand; selection of a secondary strand is optional (but recommended).

Proposals

Proposals are invited for individual papers, colloquia, posters, and roundtable discussions. The deadline for proposal submission is 4:00 p.m. on July 17, 2019 (EDT; UTC-4). If you need to renew your membership or create a guest account, you should do so at least 3 hours before the submissions deadline to allow for changes to take place in the system. Requests relating to membership or guest accounts later than this may mean that you are unable to submit your abstract by the deadline.

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AILA ASEAN was launched on 3 December 2018 at the MAAL conference in Kuala Lumpur. The network aims to: promote joint activities amongst affiliates; facilitate connectivity amongst applied linguists in Southeast Asia; and foster transdisciplinary approaches to common regional challenges.

Annual AILA ASEAN symposia have been organized since 2018, expanding the SAAL-MAAL initiative that started in 2014. Each affiliate is represented by a presenter. The presentations and follow-up discussions pave avenues for further collaboration projects of AILA ASEAN.

See AILA ASEAN members

See AILA Asean meetings

In 2024, the Australian Association of Applied Linguistics (ALAA) became a member of the network which is now known as AILA ASEAN-ALAA.

AILA ASEAN-ALAA organised an Early Career Researchers' Symposium at the AILA World Congress in Kuala Lumpur in August 2024.

 Dear AILA Members, International Committee, and Executive Board,

When the AILA Executive Board and International Committee decided in 2020 to shift the AILA elections by one year due to the pandemic, we all knew that this would mean a lot of extra work for all the AILA officers. This assessment turned out to be not too cautious an assumption. So let me thank you, dear colleagues and AILA members, for making this year, again and against all odds, a fruitful and inspiring one: a year we can be grateful for and proud of. Here are just five examples:

• First, we managed to further consolidate AILA finances, with most members regularly contributing to our joint development. A sound financial situation is a precondition for AILA’s still growing support of applied linguists in need.
• Second, we build the structural resources – the Endorsement Committee and the Strategic Collaboration Committee – to systematically collaborate with partners in academia and the practical world, be it on global, regional, or local levels.
• Third, we upgraded our journal, which now offers two issues a year. The first one starts from an open call and discusses hot topics in our field; the second showcases state-of-the-art research by AILA Research Networks.
• Fourth, we set up the Regional Network AIALA to foster collaboration, support the creation of new AILA national affiliates in the Ibero-American region, and increase the representation of Ibero-American applied linguists and languages in the field.
• Fifth, we decided for the AILA 60th Anniversary Congress Lab and to hold three complementary World congresses, which will take place in 2023, 2024, and 2025. By doing so, we are developing interactive formats for future hybrid world congresses.

A forerunner of the AILA World Congress Lab is the discounted day ticket for the AILA 2021 World Congress. Using the AILA App, delegates can identify themselves as members of AILA national affiliates who qualify for solidarity discounts.

Together, these achievements symbolize what I had in mind when I shared my vision at our 2017 World Congress in Rio: During my presidency, I wanted to intensify networks within and across regions; develop new ways to support AILA members in need; and grow our structural resources that support collaboration with practitioners when it comes to sustainably solving wicked societal problems.

Language and Applied Linguistics matter, and we are the ones to walk this talk.

On a personal note, I am deeply grateful for this experience of both serving and leading AILA – and I am happy to pass on the baton to my colleague Prof. Dr. Azirah Hashim with my very best wishes for her presidency and the next stage of our journey.

Prof. Dr. Daniel Perrin, President, International Association of Applied Linguistics 2017–2021
July 2021

AILA national affiliates embody traditions and represent cultures of doing, promoting, and supporting research and teaching, for example, by the way they organize conferences, award academic leadership, and interact with their individual members. Experiencing these traditions and cultures across affiliates’ biotopes and boundaries can challenge routines, inspire us to think out of the box and foster mutual learning. To strengthen the AILA family, the AILA International Committee encourages national affiliates to collaborate in tandems of, for example, an established and a recently set up affiliate. Forms of collaboration include partnerships for joint conferences, conference strands, and workshops.

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

AILA is the acronym for Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée or International Association of Applied Linguistics. AILA (originally founded in 1964 in France) is an international federation of national and regional associations of Applied Linguistics. AILA 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 pursues the following objectives:

• Actively contributing to the development of all subject areas of applied linguistics
• Promoting the exchange of scientific knowledge and practical experience
• Stimulating international cooperation
• Fostering language pluralism
• Supporting applied linguistics in developing countries

AILA pursues these objectives by means of the following:

• Hold a triennial world congress
• Establish and support Research Networks (ReNs)
• Promote the dissemination of scientific information by a variety of  publications: a scholarly journal, a book series and a newsletter.
• Collaborate with other organizations with related objectives and goals
• Making available Solidarity Awards to support the attendance of academics from developing countries at the World Congress