Wellington City, New Zealand New dates: 25-27 November, 2022
The theme we’ve chosen for the conference is designed to celebrate our special place in the world. The conference will provide an opportunity to learn about applied linguistic research in contexts we are familiar with, and in new contexts. It will be a time to think and talk about the connections in applied linguistics and between applied linguists in the Asia-Pacific region. We look forward to welcoming you to Wellington/Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara, and together developing common narratives for applied linguistics across borders.
Globally relevant organizations such as UNESCO could benefit from systematic collaboration with AILA – and vice versa. This is all the more the case since the strategic goals of AILA and such organizations can considerably overlap, as the example of the UNESCO strategic goals shows. An AILA workgroup takes action in addressing such strategic overlap and evaluating ways of inter-institutional collaboration.
in Action / AILA Long-term Activities / featured stories / UNESCO
Meng LIU, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China
Ali AL-HOORIE, Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, KSA
Phil HIVER, Florida State University, USA
Scope:
In the past few years, the momentum for open scholarship has been rapidly growing in applied linguistics (e.g., Al-Hoorie et al., 2024; Andringa et al., 2024; Godfroid & Andringa, 2023; Kremmel & Isbell, 2024; Liu et al., 2023; Marsden & Morgan‐Short, 2023; Plonsky, 2024). While there is an increasing number of initiatives and endeavors by active proponents of open scholarship, the wider community of applied linguistics is just beginning to engage with open scholarship in greater depth. More efforts are still needed to increase the awareness of open scholarship and to facilitate discussions and collaborations to address issues ranging from research quality to accessibility and inclusion. In response to this, Open Applied Linguistics (openappliedlinguistics.org), a field-specific community initiative dedicated to promoting open scholarship, was proposed and formally approved by AILA as a Research Network (ReN) in February 2022. As a field-specific open scholarship initiative, Open Applied Linguistics has a unique role to play in fostering a shared understanding of open scholarship that reflects the unique values, epistemologies, and priorities of the field, thereby contextualizing open scholarship to serve the diverse needs of the applied linguistics community.
The aims of our ReN are:
To raise awareness of open scholarship in applied linguistics through talks, symposia, and training workshops
To initiate conversations and collaborations on open scholarship among researchers, as well as with other open scholarship initiatives, to foster an inclusive understanding of open scholarship
To lower barriers to entry into open scholarship by creating/curating resources to support the adoption of open scholarship practices
Highlight of 3 scientific ReN works during the previous period:
Inaugural Two-Day Symposium: Open Scholarship in Applied Linguistics (June 2022)
In June 2022, Open Applied Linguistics held its first two-day symposium online. The event had 467 registered participants from around the world, creating a global conversation about open science in applied linguistics. The symposium featured 19 invited speakers and 12 presenters from various career stages. Over 19 sessions, they discussed key topics in open scholarship, such as replication studies, registered reports, and research data management. This event was crucial in raising awareness about open scholarship in applied linguistics. It started important discussions within and outside the field and set the stage for future work and collaborations in promoting open research values and practices.
The Reading Club Initiative is a key part of Open Applied Linguistics’ work to encourage ongoing learning about open scholarship. It includes two types of events – Meet the Authors Series and Open Reader Events.
Meet the Authors Series: These are live online sessions where authors of important works in open scholarship talk about their research. Participants can ask questions and exchange ideas with the author. Past events included discussions on:
Metascience in applied linguistics
Misconduct and questionable research practices
Replication studies in second language research
Responding to errors in academic work
Diamond Open Access and systemic inequality in publishing
Diamond Open Access publishing for books
Open Readers Events: These are discussions led by members of the network. They provide a space for researchers to explore different aspects of open science together. Topics have included UNESCO’s recommendations on open science and open access publishing.
By holding these events regularly and covering various topics, the Reading Club helps build a community interested in open scholarship. It gives researchers at all career stages a chance to engage with new ideas and learn how to apply open science principles in their work.
Promotion of Open Scholarship Initiatives in Applied Linguistics
This awareness-raising initiative aims to make ongoing open scholarship efforts in applied linguistics more visible to the wider community. For this project, we create and share infographic posters that highlight specific open scholarship initiatives. The project has several goals:
To inform the community about different open scholarship practices in applied linguistics
To show how community members can get involved with each initiative
To promote openness and collaboration in the field
To help researchers find ways to include open scholarship in their work
We worked with the teams behind each initiative to create the posters and held social media campaigns to promote these initiatives. The first set of featured initiatives are:
IRIS Database: An open repository of research data/code/materials/postprints for language studies.
OASIS: A database of non-technical, one-page summaries of research findings.
TESOLgraphics: An initiative that creates visual summaries of secondary research for language teachers.
TBLT Task Bank: A platform for sharing language learning tasks.
The Post-Print Pledge: A movement encouraging researchers to share their accepted article versions freely.
MuRAL: An initiative that provides translations of research abstracts into languages other than English.
Some members:
Xuechun HUANG, University of Leeds (UK)
Mehdi GOUGHARI, Independent Researcher (Iran)
Emma MARSDEN, University of York (UK)
Luke PLONSKY, Northern Arizona University (USA)
Kevin MCMANUS, Penn State University (USA)
Kara SHORT-MORGAN, University of Illinois Chicago (USA)
Laura GURZYNSKI-WEISS, Indiana University (USA)
Dan ISBELL, University of Hawaii (USA)
Benjamin KREMMEL, University of Innsbruck (Austria)
Usage based perspectives on second language learning
June 17-19, 2019
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Second Call for Papers
The 4th international conference Thinking, doing, learning: Usage based perspectives on second language learning will be held in the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, on June 17-19, 2019.
The aim of TDL is to advance our understanding of what it means to take a usage-based approach to L2 learning and L2 research. We invite researchers to explore a wide variety of topics related to language usage, language learning, and cognition. These include questions such as what it means to interact in L2 in different social contexts, how speakers accomplish social actions in moment-to-moment sense-making activities, and what is the nature of language use environments as well as sediments of usage events left as “acquired linguistic constructions” in the individual language learner. This variety of questions involves strong, empirical and theoretical considerations of language, learning, and cognition:
what is language – constructions or interactional competence?
what is learning – social action or long-term portability?
what is cognition – an individual property or a socially distributed phenomenon?, and
what are the implications for L2 teaching?
The following keynote speakers will address the conference themes from their respective viewpoints:
Ewa Dąbrowska – Between productivity and fluency: The fundamental similarity of L1 and L2 learning
Hannele Dufva – Interactivity, time and space: Distributed perspectives on language learning
Søren Eskildsen – Building a semiotic repertoire for social action: Towards an interactional usage-based approach to L2 research
Tim Greer – The Ecology of Explaining
The conference programme will also include an invited symposium Dynamic usage-based approaches to teaching organized by Marjolijn Verspoor. In addition, participants can register to one of the two pre-conference workshops (placed filled on a first-come first-served basis): (1) Marjolijn Verspoor – Dynamic analysis of longitudinal data: A toolkit or (2) Niina Lilja & Leila Kääntä – Multimodal approach to language learning in social interaction.
We now invite regular contributions that draw on epistemologies, theories, and methods from across the spectrum of usage-based language learning research, including data-driven and theory driven empirical investigations of the relation between cognition, context, interaction, and language learning. We are particularly, but not exclusively, interested in research that tackles (aspects of) the above-mentioned questions about the nature of language, learning, and cognition.
We welcome abstracts for paper or poster presentations addressing these aspects of L2 learning research. Research perspectives include, but are not limited to:
Construction-based language learning
Conversation Analytic approaches to L2 learning and interactional competence
Embodiment, gestures and language learning
Dynamic Systems / Chaos-Complexity-based language learning
Linguistic relativity, thinking-for-speaking and language learning
Language socialization
Socio-cognitive, socio-cultural, ecological language learning
Pedagogical implications of the above-mentioned strands
Talks will be allocated 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions. Posters will be put up on the first day of the conference and remain up for the duration of the conference. The language of the conference is English.
Abstract submission is now open. Abstracts of no more than 300 words (excluding references) should be submitted via the electronic abstract submission system at https://congress.cc.jyu.fi/tdl2019/cgi-bin/contact.cgi.
All abstracts will be subject to double-blind peer review by the international Scientific Committee. The deadline for abstract submission is 5 November 2018. Notification of acceptance will be given by 10 December 2018.
For further information:
https://www.jyu.fi/tdl2019/
https://www.facebook.com/TDL2019/
We look forward to your submissions!
The local organizing committee
Local organizing committee: Arja Piirainen-Marsh, chair Teppo Jakonen, scientific secretary Hannele Dufva Minna Suni Katja Mäntylä Leila Kääntä Anna Puupponen Sirkku Lesonen Taru-Maija Heilala-Rasimov, conference coordinator (JYU)
Theme: "Challenges and Opportunities in Applied Linguistics"
September 3–5, 2020
Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/baal2020
BAAL 2020 will be held at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Our theme, ‘Challenges and Opportunities in Applied Linguistics’, aims to open up space for discussion of the future of our discipline and its contribution to the world around us. In what are perhaps both turbulent and challenging, but also thought-provoking and motivating, times we hope the conference theme will encourage proposals from across the field, and that conference papers, discussions and networking will enable cross-disciplinary connections to form. The interests of our local organising committee itself, for example, range from language teaching and learning to forensic linguistics, from language policy to teacher development, and from cognitive linguistics to language and migration; and we hope that BAAL 2020 deals with challenges and debates in these areas and many more.
The BAAL 2020 Conference is hosted by English Language and Linguistics in the Department of Humanities of Northumbria University, located in the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne. A city of character, charm and culture, Newcastle brings together industrial heritage, iconic river bridges, and a love of football alongside classical Georgian architecture, a world famous cultural and nightlife, and strong sense of local identity. Located only 9 miles from the sea (a 20 minute journey on the local Metro railway), and an hour from Scotland and the Lake District, Newcastle is easily accessible by rail, road and air from within the UK and beyond; Newcastle airport is just 25 minutes from the city centre by public transport.
Plenary speakers:
David Block - ICREA & Universitat Pompeu Fabra Zhu Hua – Birkbeck, University of London Constant Leung – King’s College London
Emma Marsden – University of York (Pit Corder lecture)
BAAL EC Invited colloquia:
To be confirmed
Conference OrganiserS:
Alex Ho-Cheong Leung, Billy Clark, Graham Hall, Nicci MacLeod, Rola Naeb, James Street, Department of Humanities, Northumbria University, UK
Abstracts are welcome in any area of Applied Linguistics. Papers should offer something new, innovative and of interest to a BAAL audience and paper reporting on research should clearly outline objectives, method(s), and results where appropriate. Abstracts which address the conference theme will be particularly welcome.
DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: 31 March 2020
Maximum abstract length: 300 words
To submit your abstract please use Oxford Abstracts: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/1649/submissions/new
If you have not used this system before please register first. All submissions must be submitted on-line, if you have any queries please contact:
Abstract type:
Indicate the type of abstract that you are submitting during the submission process: individual presentation for parallel sessions or a SIG track, poster, or colloquium.
Individual presentation for the parallel sessions
Individual papers have 25 minutes: 20 for the presentation, 5 for questions.
Individual presentation for a Special Interest Group (SIG) track
BAAL has fifteen Special Interest Groups. They are: (1) Corpus Linguistics; (2) Health and Science Communication; (3) Intercultural Communication; (4) Language, Gender and Sexuality; (5) Language and New media; (6) Language in Africa; (7) Language Learning and Teaching; (8) Language Policy; (9) Linguistic Ethnography; (10) Linguistics and Knowledge about Language in Education; (11) Professional, Academic and Work-based Literacies (PAWBL); (12) Testing, Evaluation and Assessment; (13) Vocabulary Studies; (14) Multlingualism; (15) English as an Additional Language. Each SIG has a ‘track’ of papers at the annual BAAL conference.
If you believe your paper is of interest to a SIG track, you may want to submit it to one of the SIG tracks (all individuals, whether or not officially SIG members, are eligible). The SIG may then wish to include your paper in their track at the annual meeting (i.e., this conference). Submitting your abstract to a SIG track may or may not lead to your paper being included in a SIG track and has no impact on abstract acceptance to the overall conference.
Proposed colloquium
We invite colloquia on particular themes which have relevance to the conference. Colloquia last half a day and consist of a minimum of four papers. Colloquia proposers should plan their half day in four slots, aligned with a schedule of four individual papers. If they wish to include a larger number of papers, they may fit two papers into what would normally be a single presentation slot. Colloquia papers should cohere. The order of the papers should not be changed after acceptance. An abstract for the colloquium introduction is required along with abstracts for each paper within the colloquium (300 words per abstract).
Poster
We strongly encourage the submission of abstracts for posters. We aim to raise the profile of posters at our conference since we value them as equal to other forms of presentation, and we believe that they tend to receive more feedback than individual papers. All posters will be listed in the book of abstracts, and there will be a dedicated area and time slot for discussion of poster presentations. There will also be a £50 prize for best poster displayed at the conference.
scholarships
During the abstract submission process, you will be asked to indicate whether you want to apply for a scholarship. If so, we will send the scholarship application forms to you by email. Each candidate will also be required to provide two full references plus a list of other conferences they have attended and any other grants/scholarships that they have received for their studies.
BAAL offers 4 conference scholarships (for students or early career researchers, with the latter defined as being within 2 years of PhD completion). Monies from a ring-fenced fund, contributed by donors, will pay for the additional ‘Chris Brumfit scholarship’ of up to £1,000, which is usually targeted at delegates from outside Britain who would not otherwise have funds to do so to attend the BAAL Annual Meeting.
The scholarships will help towards the cost of the conference fee, onsite accommodation for the duration of the conference (where accommodation is graded, the fund will only cover the cost of the cheapest option) and within UK travel (for student/ ECR scholarship), subject to fair use (e.g. no first class travels/ taxi journeys).
If you intend to apply for the scholarship, please download the relevant form from the conference website and send it to with the relevant subject title as laid out on the form.
All presenters MUST be BAAL members by the time they register for the conference.
We are pleased to announce that the call for individual papers for the AILA 2023 Congress to be held from 17 to 21 July 2023 in Lyon (France) is now open.
All information is available at the following link: https://aila2023.fr/call-for-papers/
⚠ If you are interested in submitting a proposal, we strongly recommend that you view the information tutorial video.
Furthermore, in view of the specific organisation of the symposium, we wanted to open the call as soon as possible to allow everyone to take note of the list of symposia and to have sufficient time to prepare their submission in advance. However, the submission platform will appear online later.
In order not to miss the opening date of the platform, we highly recommend that you sign up to our mailing list: https://groupes.renater.fr/sympa/subscribe/aila2023-news?previous_action=info
In August 2023 we look forward to welcoming delegates to The University of York for the 56th Annual Conference of the British Association for Applied Linguistics. This year’s conference theme is “Opening up Applied Linguistics”. With this in mind, we aim to celebrate existing open research initiatives, which have led the way in transforming applied linguistics research by making it more accessible, transparent, reproducible and collaborative, to further realise principles of openness and inclusivity by representing a broader range of areas within applied linguistics, including but not limited to decolonizing language learning and teaching, language use in the digital age, and Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and to create an accessible and inclusive conference environment.
The conference is hosted by the Centre for Research in Language Learning and Use (CRELLU) and the Department of Education at the University of York. CRELLU is an interdisciplinary research centre that bridges theory and practice and explores practical questions relating to classroom-based teaching and learning as well as questions in second language acquisition. Colleagues in the Centre employ a wide range of methods and are at the forefront of efforts to develop infrastructure and communities underpinning open research and open scholarship, notably by ensuring that research materials are publicly available for inspection and reuse (IRIS), that research articles are physically and conceptually accessible to people outside academia (OASIS), and that researchers have access to the guidance, advocacy, and open educational resources necessary to work openly (EROS). The Department of Education at the University of York is also home to the National Centre for Excellence in Language Pedagogy (NCELP).
The AILA World Congress is designed as a meeting place for researchers from all over the world. Some of us want to stay and interact for a week, others stop over for a day, just participating without presenting. Therefore, members of AILA national affiliates who want to participate in the conference in audience roles are welcome to attend a day of their choice at the AILA 2021 conference at a reduced fee. Rates are further discounted for members of AILA national affiliates in economically challenged regions, unemployed members and student members.
Tickets are available and AILA membership is verified through the AILA app: https://aila-net.app/offers/
Conference theme:Metadiscourse in Intra/Inter/Cross-Cultural Communication: Reconceptualization of Metadiscourse across genres and contexts.
May 27–28, 2021
Online (Organized by The Interuniversity Institute of Modern Applied Languages (IULMA-UJI) and the Department of English Studies at Universitat Jaume I (UJI) in Castellón, Spain)
The Interuniversity Institute of Modern Applied Languages (IULMA-UJI) and the Department of English Studies at Universitat Jaume I (UJI) in Castellón (Spain) are delighted to announce the 3rd METADISCOURSE ACROSS GENRES CONFERENCE (MAG2021).
Metadiscourse in Intra/Inter/Cross-Cultural Communication: Reconceptualization of Metadiscourse across genres and contexts.
The conference will be ON-LINE on 27th and 28th May 2021 and will count with the participation of the following PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Prof. John Flowerdew (Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Prof. Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Prof. Rosa Lorés Sanz (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
The deadline for proposal submissions is 31 January 2021.
MAG2021 committee invites contributions related but not limited to the following specific topics:
Tools for analysing Metadiscourse
Intra/Inter/Cross-Cultural Metadiscourse in (digital) academic texts.
Intra/Inter/Cross-Cultural Metadiscourse in (digital) non-academic texts.
Recent Theories and perspectives about Metadiscourse
Cross-disciplinary and cross genre Metadiscourse analysis of spoken and written discourses
Other (please specify)
Selected proposals will be invited to submit full papers for publication . A special issue on a prestigious indexed journal and a Book volume are intended to be published by the end of 2022.
Further information about important dates, new on-line fees and instructions for submissions can be found at:
We are delighted to invite you to contribute a chapter to an upcoming edited volume on English writing programs, such as academic writing courses, communication skills courses, critical thinking and communication courses, English composition courses, writing in the discipline (WiD), writing across the curriculum (WAC), etc. A commissioning editor at Routledge, Katie Peace, has expressed great interest in this volume.
English Language and Communication Classes in Higher Education: Designs, Methods, Challenges, Evaluations and Outcomes
Editors: Dr Rosmawati (Assistant Professor, Singapore Institute of Technology)
Dr Marjolijn Verspoor (Professor Em., University of Groningen)
Courses (or modules) on English language and communication skills are now rather prevalent in many universities and institutes of higher learning around the world. In English as a medium of instructions (EMI) institutions particularly, these courses are frequently part of the curriculum for students regardless of their disciplines/major specializations. An example is the ubiquitous first-year writing course that is now near mandatory at almost any tertiary institution across the globe. The approach taken in the implementation of these courses, however, varies from institution to institution and country to country. We, therefore, feel the need to put together a volume that maps the landscape of these courses and would like the chapters to focus on curriculum design innovations, instructional strategies, classroom challenges, assessment practices in the teaching and learning process. Thus, in this book we will identify themes and pedagogies used, discuss challenges, and share our reflection on the teaching and learning practice in these courses.
This edited book will bring together a collection of chapters that showcase these language/communication courses in tertiary education institutions, with clear descriptions of the theoretical and practical considerations underpinning them. The aim is to enable replication and/or adaptation where need be. The intended target audience includes university teachers, coordinators, and especially practitioners and teaching teams of such courses.
To make the book coherent, we envision inclusion of the following parts in each chapter:
Contextualisation of the course, including the goal(s) of the program, the stakeholders
Theories and practices that have informed the program
Implementation of the course (including details such as the profiles of students and the instructors, profiles of the course, etc.)
Evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the course (e.g., what do students say; what do instructors say about the workload, etc.)
Papers will be selected through peer-review of extended abstracts by our expert panel and the editing team. This is the timeline we will work with:
Undertaking
Due date
Call for chapters sent to potential contributors
July 2022
Submission of a title and an abstract (of 500-600 words, not counting references)
12 Sept 2022
Notification of acceptance of abstract, AND Invitation to submit full papers to be sent to authors
30 Nov 2022
Submission of full book proposal to Routledge (by the editors)
15 Dec 2022
Submission of full chapters by authors
31 May 2023
Review comments sent to authors
31 July 2023
Submission of revised chapters
30 Sept 2023
Acceptance of chapters based on the review outcomes
30 Nov 2023
If you are interested in contributing to this volume, please prepare a title and an abstract (of 500-600 words, not counting references) in a single file (in WORD or PDF format) and send it to Dr. Rosmawati () by 12 Sept 2022.
If you know of other potential authors who might be interested in contributing to our volume, please feel free to forward this message to them or to let us know. Thank you for kindly considering our invitation.
Theme: Conflict and Negotiation in American Culture(s)
March 7–8, 2020
Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, Greece
Building upon the success of its 1st Young Scholar Symposium, the Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS) offers another promising event focused on promoting communication and interconnections, as well as scholarly and professional development among young scholars interested in American Studies. The 2nd HELAAS Young Scholar Symposium seeks to bring together postgraduate students, Ph.D. candidates, as well as early career researchers and Americanists whose current research and/or art projects explore “Conflict and Negotiation,” as concepts and experiences, in various American, American-derived, or American- inflected cultural contexts.
Pertinently, it was the Greek thinker Heraclitus who first postulated that conflict maintains the world. Thenceforth, scholars and artists of disparate backgrounds have elaborated on the idea that conflict is generative of human culture. It is through historical conflicts and the attendant processes of negotiation to resolve, or at least make sense of them, that America in particular has evolved, since its inception, to become a cultural stage where world-shaking performances play out: performances of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, ability, faith, among others. Realities of conflict and negotiation have assumed renewed urgency after the paradigm shift initiated by the 9/11 events and, more recently, with the several crises – financial, sovereign, ideological, humanitarian, environmental, and linguistic, among others – in which America has been directly or indirectly implicated. Given America’s pivotal role in international politics and sociocultural affairs within an increasingly globalized world, the said realities have the potential to and often do transform not only America’s/as’ internal workings, but also other cultures caught in its orbit. At the same time, they are productive of new spaces for study, research, and meaning-making within the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. It is these new spaces that the 2nd HELAAS Young Scholar Symposium seeks to address, with the hope to, in its turn, stimulate more generative conflicts and negotiations.
Therefore, the Symposium organizers invite contributions that critically engage with different facets and layers of “Conflicts and Negotiations in American Culture(s),” through multiple lenses of expertise, including those of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. We are particularly interested in proposals evincing an inter-/transdisciplinary and/or inter-/transmedial approach to any of the following issues – and beyond them:
Conflicts in American/American-inflected art, literature, and other media
American/American-inflected art, literature, and media as conflict and negotiation platforms
Conflict across modes of expression – the multimodality of conflict
The role of new media and technologies vis-a-vis conflict and negotiation
Conflicts and negotiations across various media
Conflictual co-existence and the negotiation of diversity in America
Conflicts among/across Americas – Latinx America, Asian America, African America, South America, etc.
Intersectional manifestations of conflict and negotiation
Past conflicts versus present negotiations
Past negotiations versus present conflicts
Persistent conflicts in American culture(s) and their effects
Current crises involving America as narratives of conflict and negotiation
New and emergent conflicts and negotiations
Negotiating urban, non-urban and post-urban conflicts
Environment-related conflicts and negotiations
Conflict on conflict: conflicting interpretations of conflict(s) in America
Conflict(s), resolution(s), and transformation(s) in American culture(s)
Conflicts and negotiations in the field of American Studies
Contributions may consist of individual or collaborative (15-minute) papers, (3- speaker) panels, roundtables, workshops, praxis sessions, provocations, lecture performances, or even actual performances and installations. After all, our primary aim is to demonstrate the plurality, diversity, and breadth of young scholar research and expression within the field of American Studies, besides offering a unique networking opportunity to early career scholars. With that in mind, we strongly encourage formats that transgress disciplinary boundaries and challenge distinctions between different areas of knowledge and experience. We are looking forward to welcoming contributors inclined to think out of/rethink the “academic box”; those whose work resides at the interface between art and science, epistemology, and practice, and/or offers bold readings of past and present conflicts and negotiations related to American culture(s).
In the same spirit, and in order to help young scholars navigate the world of academia, the programme of the Symposium will accommodate opportunities to discover more about practical aspects of scholarly and professional development, from thesis publication and conference tracking to syllabus construction and design. Participants will also be invited to submit full-text articles (5,000-7,000 words) for possible inclusion after being blind reviewed to a special issue of the interdisciplinary journal of the Hellenic Association for American Studies, Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media (e-ISSN: 2585-3538).
Please, send your proposal by January 15, 2020, to . Each proposal submission should include a 300-word abstract and a 100-word biographical note of the contributor(s).
For further information, please, direct your emails to Dr. Theodora Tsimpouki, President of HELAAS () or Dr. Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou, Young Scholar Representative ().
Organizing Committee:
Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou, Postdoctoral Researcher (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
The new AILA Research Debate embraces the future. From 2021 onwards, it offers previews of forthcoming AILA Review issues. The first forward-looking debate, on issue 34/1, focusses on developing shared languages in transdisciplinary collaboration. Your contributions to the debate are taken into account when issue editors and authors finalize the papers – and when they prepare for the AILA 2021 World Congress symposium on "Applied linguistics in the professions: The value of transdisciplinarity in a changing world." In other words: Engaging in this debate now impacts your potential benefits from both the AILA Review 34/1 and the related World Congress symposium in August.
See AILA Research Debate on developing shared languages (AILA Review 34/1)
The 2025 Annual Conference of China English Language Education Association was held in Chongqing on October 17-19, 2025. It was hosted by Southwest University. The theme of the conference is English Teaching in the New Era: New Approaches for Intercultural Communication and Mutual Learning. Prof. Prof. Peter I. De Costa from Michigan State University, Prof. Cheng Xiaotang from Beijing Normal University, Prof. Yin Yungong from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Prof. Dong Hongchuan from Sichuan International Studies University and Prof. Wen Xu from Southwest University gave plenary speeches at the conference. During the conference, 17 symposia, 1 editor-in-chief forum were held and 15 groups of individual papers were presented. About 300 EFL scholars and teachers attended the conference on site and 32,000 people watched the plenary sessions on-line.
The next Conference of CELEA, the 11th International Conference on ELT in China will be held jointly with the 24th AsiaTEFL International Conference (AsiaTEFL 2026) in Xi’an city on May 28-31, 2026.
Prof. Sun Youzhong, the CELEA president and Prof. Gao Yang from Xi’an Jiaotong University attended the 23nd AsiaTEFL International Conference held in Hong Kong, China on July 10-13, 2025. Prof. Gao Yang spoke as the representative of the host organization of the next AsiaTEFL Conference.
Prof. Kyria Finardi had a meeting with the representatives of CELEA, Prof. Sun Youzhong, Prof. Jin Limin, Prof. Zhang Hong, Ms Duan Changcheng and Ms Hou Hui on October 28, 2025 to discuss possibilities of academic exchanges and a global talents nurturing program.
During her visit to Beijing, professor Kyria Finardi also met Prof. Xu Jiajin https://corpus.bfsu.edu.cn/info/1067/1988.htm from the National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education, BFSU. Professor Xu is also involved in a recently approved project focused on the role of AI in the geopolitics of knowledge production coordinated by Professor Kyria Finardi in Brazil. The project involves various AILA members from 12 other countries besides China and has recently received approval and support from the Brazilian Research Foundation FAPES.
Bi/Multilingualism and the History of Language Learning and Teaching
July 6–7, 2018
University of Reading, United Kingdom
HoLLTnet (www.hollt.net) is a Research Network of AILA (L'Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée). The Research Network was founded in 2015 to stimulate research into the history of language learning and teaching within applied linguistics internationally.
Building on several successful previous colloquia (www.hollt.net/events.html), this international conference aims to situate the history of language learning and teaching in the wider context of multilingualism across time and space. Possible topics for contributions include, but are not limited to:
Bi/Multilingual dictionaries, grammars and other language-learning materials
Language learning and teaching in multilingual communities
Scholars of classical languages as learners of modern languages, and vice versa
Language learning and teaching in colonial contexts
The role of L1 in foreign language teaching
Polyglottism in the history of language learning
The role of translation and bilingual texts in language learning
Non-native speaker teachers in the history of language learning
All papers should be based on historical research.
If you would like to be considered for participation in the colloquium, please send your presentation title, your name, email address, institutional affiliation, and a 250-word abstract to by 23 February 2018. Those sending proposals will be notified of the outcome as soon as possible after that date.
Further information on conference registration for those not presenting papers will be circulated in due course.
The event has been made possible by the generous support of the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (www.reading.ac.uk/celm/) and Department of Classics (www.reading.ac.uk/classics/) at the University of Reading. The university campus has quick and convenient transport links to London and Heathrow and Gatwick Airports (www.reading.ac.uk/studyabroad/incomingstudents/practicalinformation/vso-howtogethere.aspx).
Dr Rachel Mairs, Associate Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, University of Reading
Dr Richard Smith, University of Warwick, and Professor Giovanni Iamartino, University of Milan, Joint convenors, AILA Research Network on History of Language Learning and Teaching
Don’t miss our upcoming webinar in September 30th, 2025 5pm-6pm CEST: From Language Policy to Autonomy in Applied Linguistics featuring Research Network for Learner Autonomy (ReNLA) & Language Policy Research Network (LPReN).
Register and attend online: click here
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The First Virtual Conference Language, Communication and Education (LCE2020) will be held on January 15-17, 2020 (15-22h Central European Time). The topic of LCE2020 is “Linguistic Advances in the Digital Era”. This virtual conference will bring together experts from the global linguistic community to discuss the timely issue of how to approach linguistic traditions from the perspectives of innovation, automatisation, computerisation, and globalisation. Thus, LCE2020 will provide a forum for sharing insights, experiences and interaction on linguistic investigations and techniques as well as on educative, social, political and industrial aspects that share a linguistic basis or approach. The conference will comprise a peer reviewed programme of plenary sessions, papers, posters, workshops, and demonstrations. The virtual conference platform will allow junior and established researchers to present ongoing and completed research in a variety of formats including oral, written, written-oral, and blackboard. The LCE2020 Conference, therefore, will offer good opportunities for the researchers and delegates to gain insight into unpublished research, to exchange new ideas, to establish links, and, ultimately, to build global partnership for potential collaboration both in theoretical and applied linguistic fields.
Seven thematic strands have been distinguished (see conference strands and topics).
Strand 1: Language in the Digital Era
Strand 2: Language Diversity and Change
Strand 3: Language in Society
Strand 4: Language, Politics and Education
Strand 5: Language Sciences
Strand 6: Applications of Linguistics
Strand 7: Other linguistic fields
Original unpublished contributions are welcome, including papers, posters, workshops and demonstrations. Works may be presented in four formats: oral, written, slide-and-text and on-blackboard.
Abstracts, written in English or Spanish, must be uploaded as an MS Word document and must contain the author´s name, academic affiliation, and e-mail address, as well as a list of three to five keywords. The abstract must specify the review of previous literature, methodology, analysis and main conclusions of the work. Format specifications for abstracts include: 125-150 words, one paragraph, single-spaced, justification on both sides, Times New Roman font, 12 pt.
Abstract submission: deadlines on August 31, 2019; October 31, 2019; December 31, 2019.
Abstract submissions will be peer-reviewed. All contributions must render original unpublished scientific work including review, method, analysis, original conclusion and bibliographical references. A 150-word abstract (in English or Spanish) with 3-5 keywords is required for peer-review.
Abstracts may be submitted summarising four types of presentation: paper, poster, workshop (3-4 participants) and demonstrations of current projects or product developments.
“Applied Linguistics in Times of Reckoning and Change” Conference Chair: Lourdes Ortega, 1st VP
Pittsburgh, March 19-22, 2022
The American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) is pleased to hold its 2022 annual conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this coming March 19-22. The theme of the conference is “Applied Linguistics in Times of Reckoning and Change.” The conference chair is Professor Lourdes Ortega from Georgetown University. Lourdes is also currently serving as 1st VP within AAAL.
Of particular interest in the 2022 event is the new strand called “Antiracism, Decolonization, and Intersectionality for Systemic Transformation (ADIST).” The goal of this strand is to promote:
conceptual and empirical work to develop and implement a critical, transformative, and sustainable agenda, whose goal is to enact antiracism, decolonization, and intersectionality for systemic change in applied linguistics. The inquiry embraces Indigenous knowledge, antiracist and queer pedagogies, critical disability studies, justice-oriented activism, and re-imagined forms of research. It disrupts systemic racism, settler colonialism, Empire, anti-Blackness, anti-Asianness, antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-LGBTQ freedom, economic disparities, and any number of repressive ideologies and practices observed within applied linguistics and across its transdisciplinary relationships and entanglements.
For more information on the 2022 AAAL conference, please go to https://www.aaal.org/events/2022-aaal-conference
IMPORTANT:
The “early bird” registration rate for AILA members is $220. This rate is available until January 2020.
COVID concerns? Please, check out the following link for specifics (but be sure to keep an eye on the news regarding changing regulations): https://www.aaal.org/2022-covid-information-and-policies
Credit: Pittsburgh Aerial—Photo by Dave Dicello
Credit: Pittsburgh Downtown--Photo by Jin Wu
Credit: Skyline at Dusk—Photo by Dustin Mc Grew
Photography by permission of Pittsburgh CVB. Visit Pittsburgh.
On behalf of the Applied Linguistics Research Lab (ALLAB) at Prince Sultan University, I am pleased to announce the opening of the call for abstracts for the 1st International Symposium on Applied Linguistics Research (ALR2020) that will be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Saturday, November 7, 2020. To submit your abstracts, please click here https://easychair.org/cfp/ALR2020.
Conference Theme
Language Studies: Practical Implications for the Society
Description
This symposium is organized and hosted by the Applied Linguistics Research Lab (ALLAB) at the College of Humanities, Prince Sultan University (PSU). It aims at promoting Applied Linguistic research in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Area through bringing together international names and high-quality research in various Applied Linguistic disciplines. These include, but are not limited to, Language Learning and Teaching, Second Language Acquisition, Assessment, Translation and Stylistics, Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, and Psycholinguistics and Bilingualism.
In 2020, ALR will feature language studies with an applied focus that support societal development. This comes in line with the first theme of the Saudi Vision 2030 with an eye on enhanced education and research opportunities. With international plenary speakers, carefully selected paper presentations / posters, and intensive workshops, we strive to offer an exceptional experience for researchers in Applied Linguistics. In order to promote Applied Linguistic Research output in Saudi Arabia, we also offer opportunities to publish accepted papers in the following reputed journals based on the guidelines and upon the regular rigorous review of these journals:
PSU Research Review
Language & Speech
Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Studies
Strands
The symposium will address, but will not be limited to, the following strands:
Foreign Language Learning
Second Language Acquisition
Language Assessment and Evaluation
Language Literacy Studies
Language Policy
Language Teaching and Technology
Corpus Linguistics
Discourse Analysis
Psycholinguistics
Sociolinguistics
Bilingualism
Vocabulary Acquisition
Translation and Interpretation Studies
Stylistics
English and the Corporate World
Types of Submission
Paper presentations (30 min.)
Poster presentations (60 min.)
Our Workshop Partners
National Center for Assessment, Education & Training Evaluation Commission
British Council
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Association for Language Teachers
Traajim, a youth initiative to enhance KSA translators' skills
Zaka, an artificial intelligence company
Venue
The symposium will be held in Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
For queries, please write to .
Regards, Applied Linguistics Research Lab Prince Sultan University Twitter: @ALLAB_PSU Phone: 00966 11 494 8201
At the 2020 meeting, the AILA Executive Board and International Committee unanimously agreed to accept the AILA affiliate membership application by the Latvijas Lietišķās valodniecības asociācija (LLVA) and to include our Latvian colleagues in the strong and growing AILA family.
This means that LLVA members can access all the AILA benefits for members (https://aila.info/members/). In addition, they are part of a global network of active applied linguists and will have free or discounted access to applied linguistics resources through the AILA App.
Inga Kaija, President of the Latvian Association of Applied Linguistics, is happy about this major step in the history of LLVA: “We are delighted to join AILA on the journey towards new developments in applied linguistics and are looking forward to doing our share."
AILA looks forward to growing and shaping applied linguistics together with our colleagues from Latvia as well as to welcoming the LLVA delegate at the next meeting of the AILA Executive Board and International Committee on 14 August 2021, in Groningen, right before the 19th AILA World Congress.
