AILA is in contact with several potential new affiliates, for example, to keep the momentum of the AILA 2017 World Congress going and to strengthen Applied Linguistics in Latin America. The procedure of becoming an AILA National Affiliate has been simplified. A new, checklist style application form provides prospective parties with an overview of all the requirements for a successful application.
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Broadening the Horizons of Applied Linguistics
August 29-31, 2019
Manchester Metropolitan University, England, UK
BAAL 2019 will be held at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK.
Our theme – Broadening the Horizons of Applied Linguistics – takes as its premise that applied linguistics underpins a vast range of disciplines, and we intend the 2019 meeting to encourage exploration of the role that applied linguistics plays in many walks of life. We hope the conference theme will encourage proposals from a wide range of disciplines and that this in turn will encourage cross-disciplinary dissemination of ideas and research. Our Local Organising Committee is drawn from different faculties and departments across the university – the School of Teacher Education and Professional Development and the School of Childhood, Youth and Educational Studies, both within the Faculty of Education, the Department of Languages, Information and Communications within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and the Faculty of Health, Psychology & Social Care.
The BAAL 2019 conference is hosted by the Faculty of Education, located in the Brooks Building in the centre of Manchester. Manchester is a vibrant, lively city which not only has a rich industrial heritage but is also home to an exciting and varied cultural life. Manchester is only two hours from London by train, and in easy reach of Liverpool, Chester, North Wales and the Lake District, the Peak District and Yorkshire. The campus is easily accessible by car and rail. The University is a 20-minute walk or a short taxi ride from the train station. There is a direct train from Manchester Airport.
PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Julia Carroll – University of Coventry
Tim Grant – Aston University
Kate Pahl – Manchester Metropolitan University
Adrian Holliday – Canterbury Christ Church University (Pit Corder lecture)
BAAL EC INVITED COLLOQUIA:
To be confirmed
CONFERENCE ORGANISERS:
Conference Support: contact
Conference webpage: www.mmu.ac.uk/baal2019
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Abstracts are welcome in any area of Applied Linguistics, should be interesting and innovative in some way, and should be of scholarly and academically good quality and indicate clearly objectives, method(s), and results where appropriate. Abstracts which address the conference theme will be particularly welcome.
DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: 10 April 2019
Maximum abstract length: 300 words
To submit your abstract please use Oxford Abstracts https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/890/submission
If you haven’t 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
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 a track at the annual meeting. 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 conference. BAAL has thirteen 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.
Proposed colloquium
We invite colloquia on particular themes which have relevance to the conference. Colloquia have half a day and a minimum of four papers. Colloquia proposers should plan their half day in four slots, in step with the individual paper slots. If they wish to have a larger number of papers, they may fit two papers into what would normally be a single 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). Please state explicitly in the abstract text to say that it's part of a colloquium (with colloquium title).
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 4-5 full conference scholarships (for students or early career researchers, with the latter defined as being within 2 years of PhD completion). Monies from a special ring-fenced fund, contributed by donors, will pay for the additional ‘Chris Brumfit scholarship’ for 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).
ALL PRESENTERS HAVE TO BE BAAL MEMBERS BY THE TIME THEY REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE.
March 21-23, 2019
FH Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld, Germany
The conference considers all aspects of the linguistic and sociolinguistic competences and practices of bi-/multilingual speakers who cross existing social and linguistic boundaries, adopting or adapting themselves to new and overlapping linguistic spaces. We invite papers in all areas of research in bi-/multilingualism, whether or not linked directly to the overarching conference theme, including, but not limited to, linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, clinical linguistics, education, bi-/multilingual societies.
Topics will include: (multiple) language acquisition and learning (L3, L4, Lx); psycho- and neurolinguistics of multilingualism; translanguaging; early bilingualism and heritage language development; speech processing in bi-/multilinguals; trans/multilingual language use in different contexts; multilingual education; bi-/multiculturalism; bi-/multilingual language policies; literacy in multiple languages (pluriliteracy); intercultural and globalisation issues related to multilingualism; multilingualism in business/economics; multilingualism and digital media; multilingual issues in literature and translation.
Confirmed keynote speakers are:
Conference venue: FH Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Department of Social Work, Interaktion 1, 33 619 Bielefeld, GERMANY
More details about the venue will follow shortly: https://www.fh-bielefeld.de
The two categories of proposals are:
individual papers and posters.
Submission is already open and will close on 31 December 2018.
Presenters are requested to submit their abstracts of up to 300 words and include their name, affiliation, email address and 2-3 references in an MS-Word document. All proposals should be sent to:
The conference website: https://icmme2019.wordpress.com
Word of the Year initiatives have raised increasing attention around the globe. For Applied Linguists, the phenomenon is of twofold interest: First, empirically grounded selection processes of socially predominant words require sophisticated analytical tools from discourse and corpus analysis. Second, media coverage of every Word of the Year is an opportunity to raise both language awareness and the visibility of Applied Linguistics in society at large. These are two good reasons for a new AILA workgroup to explore ideas of collaborating with Word of the Year initiatives. To join the workgroup please contact: Word of the Year
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November 22-24, 2018
Tallinn University, School of Humanities, Estonia
The conference considers all aspects of the linguistic and sociolinguistic competences and practices of bi-/multilingual speakers who cross existing social and linguistic boundaries, adopting or adapting themselves to new and overlapping linguistic spaces.
We invite papers in all areas of research in bi-/multilingualism, whether or not linked directly to the overarching conference theme, including, but not limited to, linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, clinical linguistics, education, bi-/multilingual societies.
Topics will include: (multiple) language acquisition and learning (L3, L4, Lx); psycho- and neurolinguistics of multilingualism; translanguaging; early bilingualism and heritage language development; speech processing in bi-/multilinguals; trans/multilingual language use in different contexts; multilingual education; bi-/multiculturalism; bi-/multilingual language policies; literacy in multiple languages (pluriliteracy); intercultural and globalisation issues related to multilingualism; multilingual issues in literature and translation.
Confirmed speakers are:
Prof. Ad Backus (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Prof. Mila Schwartz (Oranim Academic College, Israel)
Prof. Anna Verschik (Tallinn University, Estonia).
Conference venue: Tallinn University, School of Humanities, Narva Mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn
More information on the venue is to be found here: http://www.tlu.ee/en/School-of-Humanities
Multiperspectivity in Applied Linguistics
September 26–28, 2019
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The 11th Junior Researchers' Meeting is hosted by the Society for Applied Linguistics in Bosnia and Herzegovina (SALinBiH). It will take place in Sarajevo, from 26 to 28 September 2019, and focus on Multiperspectivity in Applied Linguistics.
Abstracts within 200–250 words should be submitted online: https://jrmsarajevo.org/abstract-submission Deadline for the Submission of Abstracts: 10 April 2019
Deadline for the Notification of Acceptance: 10 May 2019
Bilingualism and languages in contact
March 27-29, 2019
University of Valladolid, Spain
The 2019 edition of AESLA international conference intends to address the study of bilingualism in its different dimensions and through the use of multiple methodologies and formal accounts as used by researchers in the field. We target the linguistic phenomena that emerge when more than one language interact in the mind of bilingual speakers with different linguistic profiles and how this evolves during their life span.
Main speakers
More information
https://aesla2019.uva.es/en/
Conference chair
Raquel Fernández Fuertes (Universidad de Valladolid, Spain)
March 9–12, 2019
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
The 2019 conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) will be held at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. 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.
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TIRF – The International Research Foundation for English Language Education – is pleased to announce its 2019 Doctoral Dissertation Grants (DDG) competition. Grants of up to US $5,000 will be made to successful applicants investigating a range of topics in English language education. The application deadline is Wednesday, April 24, 2019.
There are two types of grants offered through TIRF’s DDG program. Information about the two types of grants, as well as eligibility concerns, resource videos, answers to frequently asked questions, and much more can be found at: https://protect2.fireeye.com/url?k=099ad3a4-55bc3bb7-099ee0ab-000babd906fc-562649b75f6cf8b5&u=https://www.tirfonline.org/research-grants/doctoral-dissertation-grants/
TIRF and its Trustees are grateful to be working in partnership with Cambridge Assessment English and the British Council, as well as individual donors, in support of the 2019 DDG competition.
Please write to if you have any questions about this announcement, or visit the link above. Many thanks in advance!
Convenors
Mary Jane Curry, University of Rochester, US
Theresa Lillis, The Open University, UK
Network focus
Scholars around the world are coming under increasing pressure not only to publish, but often to publish in English. While many multilingual scholars are committed to continuing to present and publish in local, national and regional languages, publishing in English frequently carries not only prestige but material rewards such as salary and promotion. However, publishing in English requires the dedication of extra resources in terms of time, effort, and money, thus often becoming both an obstacle to scholars’ intellectual and political interests and to opportunities for multidirectional transnational scholarly exchange.
Growing research area
In the past 15 years a growing body of research has documented the pressures facing multilingual scholars as they present and publish their work in English as well as their opinions about these changes in working conditions and linguistic practices (e.g., Burgess & Martin 2008; Canagarajah, 1996, 2002; Martin, 2008; Curry & Lillis, 2004, 2010a; Englander, 2006, 2011; Flowerdew, 2000, 2008; Fortanet, 2002, 2008; Hanauer & Englander, 2011; Hyland & Salager-Meyer, 2008; Lillis & Curry, 2006a, 2006b, 2010, 2013; Salager-Meyer, 2008; Uzuner, 2008). Pressures for postgraduate students to publish early and often in English have also been investigated (Flowerdew & Li, 2007). Furthermore, the growing number of English-medium journals published outside of dominant Anglophone contexts has been documented and studied (Lillis, 2012). Alongside research on English as a global language more generally, there is a need for continued research on the impact of English on scholarly publishing and presenting. There is also a need for research on scholars publishing in local, national, regional and other languages and their/our interests and challenges in doing so in the face of the pressures to publish in English.
The goals of the Academic Publishing in a Global Context Research Network
The Academic Publishing in a Global Context Research Network involves researchers from a range of geopolitical and geolinguistic locations interested in exploring the many facets of this phenomenon as well as possible responses, both in research and practical terms, including:
References and sample bibliography
Burgess, S. & Martin, P.M. (Eds.) (2008). English as an additional language in research publication and communication. New York: Peter Lang.
Canagarajah, A.S. (2002). A geopolitics of academic writing, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Canagarajah, A. S. (1996) ‘Nondiscursive requirements in academic publishing, material resources of periphery scholars, and the politics of knowledge production’, WrittenCommunication, 13(4): 435–472.
Cargill, M., & O'Connor, P. (2011). Identifying and addressing challenges to international publication success for EFL science researchers: Implementing an integrated training package in China. In R. Tang (Ed.), Academic writing in a second or foreign language: Issues and challenges facing ESL/EFL academic writers in higher education contexts. Continuum.
Cargill, M., & O'Connor, P. (2010). Structuring interdisciplinary collaboration to develop research students’ skills for publishing research internationally: Lessons from implementation. In M. Davies, M. Devlin & M. Tight (Eds.), Interdisciplinary higher education: Perspectives and practicalities. International Perspectives on higher education research Volume 5 (pp. 279-292). Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Curry, M.J. & Lillis, T. (in preparation)Getting published in a multilingual world: critical choices, practical strategies. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Curry, M.J. & Lillis, T. (2010a). Academic research networks: Accessing resources for English-medium publishing. English for Specific Purposes, 29(4), 281-295.
Curry, M.J. & Lillis, T. (2010b). Making academic publishing practices visible: Designing research-based heuristics to support English-medium text production. In N. Harwood (Ed.), Language teaching materials: Theory and practice (pp. 322-345). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Curry, M.J. and Lillis, T. (Forthcoming 2013) (eds) Special Issue Language Policy, Participating in Academic Publishing: Consequences of Linguistic Policies and Practices.
Curry, M.J. & Lillis, T. (2004). Multilingual scholars and the imperative to publish in English: Negotiating interests, demands, and rewards. TESOL Quarterly, 38(4), 663-688.
Englander, K. (2011). The globalized world of English scientific publishing: An analytical that situates a multilingual scholar. In G. López-Bonilla & K, Englander (Eds.). Discourses and identities in contexts of educational change: Contributions from the United States and Mexico (pp. 211-230). New York: Peter Lang Publishers.
Englander, K. (2006). Revision of scientific manuscripts by nonnative-English-speaking scientists in response to journal editors’ language critiques. Journal of Applied Linguistics, 3 129-161.
Flowerdew, J. (2008). The non-Anglophone scholar at the periphery of scientific communication. AILA Review, 20, 14-27.
Flowerdew, J. (2000). Discourse community, legitimate peripheral participation, and the nonnative-English-speaking scholar. TESOL Quarterly, 34(1), 127-150.
Flowerdew, J. & Li, Y.Y. (2007). Language re-use among Chinese apprentice scientists writing for publication. Applied Linguistics, 28(3), 440-65.
Fortanet, I. (2008). Evaluative language in peer review referee reports. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 7(1), 27-37.
Fortanet, I. (coord.). (2002).Cómo escribir un artículo de investigación en inglés. Madrid: Alianza editorial.
Hanauer, D. I. & Englander, K. (2011). Quantifying the burden of writing research articles in a second language: Data from Mexican scientists. Written Communication, 28(4).
Huang, J. C. (2010). Publishing and learning writing for publication in English: perspectives of NNE (non-native English speakers) PhD students in science. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 9, 33-44.
Hyland, K. & Salager-Meyer, F. (2008). Scientific writing. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 297-339
Lillis, T. (2012) Economies of signs in writing for academic publication: The case of English medium “national” journals. Journal of Advanced Composition. 32.(3-4) : 695–722.
Lillis, T., Magyar, A. and Robinson-Pant, A. (2010). An international journal’s attempts to address inequalities in academic publishing: developing awriting for publication programme. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 40(6), 781-800.
Lillis, T. & Curry, M. J. (2010). Academic writing in a global context: The politics and practices of publishing in English. London: Routledge.
Lillis, T. & Curry, M.J. (2006a). Professional academic writing by multilingual scholars: Interactions with literacy brokers in the production of English-medium texts. Written Communication, 23(1), 3-35.
Lillis, T. & Curry, M.J. (2006b). Reframing notions of competence in scholarly writing: From individual to networked activity. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 53, 63-78.
Marušic, M., Markulin, H., Lukic, I. K., Marušic, A. (2006) Academic advancement of authors receiving tutoring from a medical journal. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 18(2). pp. 126-129.
Pérez-Llantada, C., Plo, R., & Ferguson, G. (2011). “You don’t say what you know, only what you can”: The perception and practices of senior Spanish academics regarding research dissemination in English. English for Specific Purposes, 30, 18–30.
Salager-Meyer, F. (2008). Scientific publishing in developing countries: Challenges for the future. Journal of English for Academic Purposes,7,121-132.
Salager-Meyer, F. (2009). Academic equality and cooperative justice, TESOL Quarterly, 43(4), 703-709.
Swales, J. (2004) Research Genres, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Swales, J. M. & Leeder, C. (2012). A reception study of the articles published in English for Specific Purposes from 1990-1999. English for Specific Purposes, 31, 137-146.
Tang, R. (Ed). (2012) Academic writing in a second or foreign language: Issues and challenges facing ESL/EFL academic writers in higher education contexts. London: Continuum.
Tardy, C. (2004).The role of English in scientific communication: lingua franca or Tyrannosaurus rex? English for Academic Purposes, 3, 247–269.
Uzuner, S. (2008). Multilingual scholars’ participation in core/global academic communities: A literature review. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 7, 250-263
July 23-26, 2019
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Call for Papers
The International Conference LANGUAGE IN THE MEDIA 8 will be hosted by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) from JULY 23rd to 26, 2019. The conference aims to discuss the theme MEDIATISING RESISTANCE. The relation between language and the mediatisation of resistance is particularly relevant these days in view of the intensification of tensions, bigotry, and polarization we have been witnessing worldwide.
A well-established body of research indicates that this state of conflict is partly articulated in media communication. It also shows just how high the stakes rise when attrition gets commodified. Although media interaction involves complex and layered power relations, it only exists amidst constant battles for meaning and contextualization. One can thus say that the production, circulation and interpretation of media texts are always power-resistance actions. However, the dynamics of these complementary practices and their transformation possibilities still demand thorough exploration. Foucault has taught us that power games are fluid and relational and, as such, are prone to instability and insubordination. These concerns embody the conference’s focus on struggles for domination-reversal enhanced by media semiosis.
These topics will be addressed in keynotes by DANIEL SILVA (UFSC, Brazil), DEBORAH CAMERON (University of Oxford, UK), and
H. SAMY ALIM (UCLA, USA).
While favoring the focus on power-resistance processes, LinM8 will keep the interest in other broad SOCIOLINGUISTIC TOPICS and their relations to PROCESSES OF MEDIATISATION. Submissions whose focus lies in the following areas are welcome:
The deadline for submission is 10/OCTOBER/2018.
Abstracts in ENGLISH or PORTUGUESE must be 300 WORDS long and must be submitted via EasyCair in this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=linm2019.
Notification of acceptance will be given by December 10th, 2018.
8th Language in the Media
http://languageinthemedia.com
The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya is looking for course instructors for the English courses to be run by the Centre for Modern Languages during the academic year 2019/2020. You can see the job offer published for this position from this link:
http://www.uoc.edu/opencms_colaboradors/opencms/EN/treballa/colaboradors_escola/ofertes_vigents.html
Although the offer states that the language of instruction is Spanish, it is in fact English.
Interested candidates should visit the "Join our team" section of the www.uoc.edu website, where you can find the terms and conditions for working with us:
To take part in the selection process, you need to register as a candidate in the "Join our team" section. Once registered, you can apply from the candidate area.
http://www.uoc.edu/opencms_colaboradors/opencms/EN/treballa/index.html
The deadline for applying is 2 May 2019.
We would be grateful if you could pass on this job offer to anyone you think might be interested and/or post it to the corresponding job bank at your institution.
This call for proposals targets contributions to the publication of one or more volumes in applied linguistics, in French, entitled "Évaluation(s) et autonomisation dans l’enseignement-apprentissage des langues étrangères à l’université."
The challenge is to reflect on the articulation between assessment (in all its forms) and the development of autonomy. The publication will only accept contributions relating to this articulation. Articles involving empirical experimentation would be particularly welcome. In addition to research articles, we are also considering a section of shorter contributions presenting practices that explore this articulation.
The project is to publish a reference book in French, consisting of previously unpublished contributions. We are, however, open to proposals in other languages (in particular German and English). Accepted contributions will be translated into French. Please consult the attachment for details. Deadline for initial proposal (declaration of interest): September 30, 2019. Send your proposal to
Background
TIRF – The International Research Foundation for English Language Education – established the TIRF James E. Alatis Prize for Research in Language Policy and Planning in Educational Contexts in 2015 to honor the contributions TIRF Trustee Emeritus James E. Alatis made to the field as an outstanding educator and leader.
A prize of $500 will be awarded for an article or chapter published in English and dealing with some aspect of language policy or planning in educational contexts. Submissions may be articles published in scholarly peer-reviewed journals or peer-reviewed chapters in edited books.
2019 Prize
For the 2019 prize, we invite nominations of outstanding articles or chapters that were published during calendar years of 2017 or 2018. TIRF will only consider publications nominated by someone other than the author(s) of the published work. Individuals may only nominate one article/chapter per competition year. An author may have only one article/chapter under review per competition year. TIRF Trustees are ineligible to be nominated for the Alatis Prize. Papers that have appeared in TIRF publications, for example, chapters in the TIRF-Routledge Global Research on Teaching and Learning English series, may not be nominated.
Submissions will be reviewed based upon the quality of the work and its potential impact on the field of language policy and planning in educational contexts. The research may be country- and language-specific or country- and language-general. Reviewers will consider the degree of sophistication and/or innovation of the methodology used as well as the paper’s implications for policy formation and/or change. Each study will be assessed for the salience of the research question(s) asked, the appropriateness and rigor of the research methods used, and the significance of the paper’s contribution to knowledge within the field of language policy or planning in educational contexts. Studies using any appropriate analyses – quantitative, statistical procedures for data gathering and data analyses, qualitative/descriptive research approaches, or mixed approaches – will be considered.
Specific nomination procedures are given below. Nominations should be submitted no later than August 31, 2018 electronically through TIRF’s website at https://www.tirfonline.org/research-grants/doctoral-dissertation-grants/application-submission-area/.
Important Dates
Nomination Procedures
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Deadlines:
Volume 21 No. 2: November 30, 2018
Volume 22 No. 1: March 15, 2019
The Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (CALJ) invites all researchers and teachers from the local and international audience to present original, unpublished articles that are not in the process of being published in another journal. The CALJ is published twice a year by the College of Sciences and Education, Master Program in Applied Linguistics of the Universidad de Caldas Francisco José de Caldas. This journal is indexed in Education Research Abstracts (ERA), Modern Language Association Bibliography (MLA), Latindex, SciELO, Redalyc, Publindex (Category B), Ulrich's Periodicals, DOAJ, e-Revistas and in EBSCO Publishing.
Visit and read the new Issue (Volume 20 No.2) HERE!
On 3 December 2018, the AILA ASEAN Network was launched at the Malaysian Association of Applied Linguistics International Conference 2018, the theme of which was Applied Linguistics and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Language, Communication and the Professions.
ASEAN comprises ten countries: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, seven of whom were represented at the launch.
AILA ASEAN is part of an AILA initiative that has seen a number of regional networks established over the years. The new network will facilitate people-to-people connectivity in the field of applied linguistics in South East Asia, thereby promoting one of ASEAN’s foremost goals. Given the common issues in Applied Linguistics in the region and more widely, AILA ASEAN will strengthen collaboration in regional and inter-regional activities, including the mobility of practitioners in the field. The network will be a platform for applied linguists to discuss regional and global issues on the basis of a transdisciplinary approach to shared problems. By collaborating with other AILA affiliates on a trans-national approach to cross-border challenges, the network will assist in promoting regional and inter-regional cooperation in pursuit of sustainable solutions.
Dear colleagues
Here is information on the new Linguacuisine web app, which is now ready for use, as well as an invitation to our London event in September. Please forward to anyone you think might be interested and I hope you will be able to add your own favourite recipe to the system!
Free Language Learning and Cooking App Now Available
For anyone interested in languages and food!
The free Linguacuisine web app helps you learn a language while you’re cooking a meal! Choose a foreign language and a delicious recipe from that country. Then your own smartphone or tablet will speak to you in the foreign language and talk you through all of the stages of cooking the recipe in your own kitchen. If you can’t understand, just press a button to get a photo or video explaining what to do. When you’ve finished, eat the food you’ve cooked and learn something about the culture of the country. Linguacuisine has a range of recipes now available for language learning from around the world at https://linguacuisine.com/app/
We now have recipes available in: English, Greek, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Quechua, Chinese and Korean.
You can also use the free recipe builder app so that you can upload your own favourite recipe in your own language. That means that anyone anywhere in the world will be able to watch videos and listen to audios of you guiding them through cooking your recipe and learning your language! Use your own smartphone or tablet to make recordings of yourself and upload them using our user-friendly software to create your own recipe.
You can also join our worldwide online community so you can rate and discuss other people’s recipes and post information, stories and photos. They can do the same for your recipe, so it’s a good way to make friends in other countries.
So Linguacuisine is a really fun way to learn about foreign languages, cultures and cuisines and you get to eat what you produce. You can also tell other people around the world about your own cooking, language and way of life. You learn foreign words better when you are physically touching food and cooking utensils and using them to prepare food. When you are cooking, you involve all of your senses in the learning experience – touch, smell and taste as well as hearing and seeing. So this is multi-modal and multi-sensory language learning. This is task-based language learning with a real product at the end of it and is intended to improve international understanding and communication.
Linguacuisine is available now for all devices, smartphones, tablets and computers from our website, where the online community will also be located https://linguacuisine.com/
The Linguacuisine app is the end result of a 10-year collaboration between computing scientists and linguists at Newcastle University. The Linguacuisine project is a collaboration between Newcastle University, Action Foundation (UK), Hellenic Open University (Greece), Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy) and the Workers’ Educational Association (UK). It is funded by an Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnership grant of €324K.
For Teachers
The Linguacuisine app can be used for foreign language lessons, but also for cookery lessons and cross-curriculum projects. Students can use the app to cook and learn in the kitchen at home as well as at school.
The app is a good way of preparing students for a foreign trip as it helps engage them with the cuisine, culture and language in advance. Students can also write their own recipes in their own language, informing people abroad about their culture and cuisine.
It is also an excellent way of getting learners to communicate with learners in other countries. Video links have been available for some time, but Linguacuisine means that learners in different countries can do enjoyable shared activities together, cooking recipes from the other countries whilst learning about the other language and culture.
Digital skills can also be developed by using the ‘recipe builder’ authoring software. This was co-authored with learners and designed to develop a wide range of digital skills using the DIGCOMP 2.1 framework; it has been shown to be successful in improving learner competence.
For Professionals working with Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers
The Linguacuisine app was co-designed with a group of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers from Action Foundation, Newcastle, UK and seeks to help them in two ways. Firstly, immigrants to a country can cook the recipes to learn about the language, cuisine and culture of their host country and help their integration. Secondly, immigrants can produce their own recipes in their own language using the recipe builder software, so they are able to have a voice and so people in their host country are able to learn something about their life prior to arrival here. A number of recipes currently on Linguacuisine have been produced by migrants in the UK.
For Catering Professionals
Chefs and other catering staff who are travelling to work abroad can introduce themselves to the language, culture and cuisine of their destination country by using the Linguacuisine app. They can also increase their repertoire and employability by trying recipes from around the world and improving relevant language skills.
Chefs can also produce their own recipes in their own language or English using the recipe builder software. Their recipes can then be tried out by users anywhere in the world. Users can post feedback about the recipes and rate the recipes, so chefs can gain an international reputation and increase their own job opportunities.
Invitation to London Event
Please come to our free London dissemination event in Europe House on 11 September. An invitation is attached and you can book a place on
https://linguacuisine.eventbrite.co.uk
Try out the app, cook a recipe and learn a new language!
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Revisiting Multiculturalism and Interdisciplinarity
in today's Academic Communication
December 6 - 7 2018
University of Social Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
The conference is under the patronage of Polish Association of Applied Linguistics (PTLS)
Contact:
The purpose of this conference is to create a forum for discussions on changes in the perception of cultural and linguistic identities in an academic environment. It aims to explore the evolution of communication styles taking place in today’s globalized and multicultural societies.
We invite representatives from the departments of humanities and social sciences who are interested in exchanging theoretical and practical approaches to these phenomena and processes: on a global, national or regional level; from disciplinary, intercultural, cognitive and educational perspectives.
Therefore, the conference aims to bring together scholars and practitioners from the fields of anthropocentric linguistics; anthropological linguistics; linguistic anthropology; identity and cultural studies; SLA, ESP and English as a lingua franca.
PROBLEMS FOR DISCUSSION
The themes that will be discussed and analyzed during the conference:
SPEAKERS WHO HAVE ALREADY CONFIRMED THEIR PARTICIPATION
The language of the conference will be English.
Papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. Abstracts of no more than 300 words including references should be sent as MS Word attachment to by 23rd September, 2018. Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by 7th October, 2018. For further information please follow the link http://cocac.san.edu.pl/
There will be an opportunity to publish in Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny (Neophilological Quarterly, Polish Academy of Sciences) indexed in ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences) and list B of academic journals of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (12 points).
We look forward to welcoming you at the conference!
Convenors:
Dr David Caldwell, University of South Australia
Dr Antje Wilton, University of Siegen
Network Focus
The scope of this ReN – Applied Linguistics in Sport – broadly covers research involving the application of linguistics to the field of sport. The ReN aims to bring together a bourgeoning body of sports and language research into the one research network. As its starting point, the ReN draws on recent collaborative publications (e.g. The Language of Football, Lavric et al. 2008; The Discourses of Sport, Caldwell et al. 2016), workshops (e.g. International Workshop on Sports Communication, Siegen 2017) and colloquiums (British Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, University of Warwick, UK, 2014, European Systemic Functional Linguistic Conference, Salzburg 2016; Salamanca 2017) between international scholars with a common interest in sport and linguistics. The ReN is also open to a range of linguistic methods, theories and traditions (e.g. sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, conversation analysis, systemic functional linguistics, interactional linguistics), a range of sporting contexts (e.g. different types of sports, sports media, coaching, on-field language, sports analytics), and cross-disciplinary research more generally (e.g. sports communication, sports psychology, sports science and e-sports). In short, the scope of the ReN is limited only to applied linguistics in the field of sport.
The ReN includes established and emerging researchers from ten countries. It also aims to engage with a growing number of students working on sport-related topics and courses in their university qualifications. The network provides a platform for information, support and scholarship for both scholars and students with an interest in the application of linguistics to sport.
Network Activities
2018:
2019:
2020:
References
Caldwell, D, Walsh, J, Vine, EW & Jureidini, J (eds), 2016, The Discourse of sport: analyses from social linguistics. Routledge, New York.
Lavric, E, Pisek, G, Skinner, A, & Stadler, W (eds), 2008, The Linguistics of football: language in performance series 38. Tübingen: Nar Francke Attempto Verlag.
Meân, L, 2016, ‘Foreword’, in Caldwell, D, Walsh, J, Vine, EW & Jureidini, J (eds), The Discourse of sport: analyses from social linguistics. Routledge, New York, pp. ix-xv.
October 31 - November 1, 2019
Conference Theme: Trends and Issues: Language, Culture, Translation and Bilingual Education
Department of English, National Taipei University of Technology (Taipei Tech), Taiwan
We are welcoming abstracts for APLX 2019 at National Taipei University of Technology (Taipei Tech). This year’s theme is “Trends and Issues: Language, Culture, Translation and Bilingual Education.”
Our keynote speakers are
Martha Bigelow, Professor at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Minnesota, USA, and
Minako O’Hagan, Associate Professor at the School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics, the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Extended deadline for submitting abstracts is May 31, 2019.
For detailed information, please visit our official conference website at aplx2019.wordpress.com. Further enquiries can be made at . We look forward to welcoming you to APLX 2019.
Sincerely,
APLX 2019 Conference Committee