Started in 2005, this new series includes edited books and monographs on different areas of Applied Linguistics. The series aims at representing the field in its diversity and includes high quality volumes which are externally reviewed and published by John Benjamins.
All members of affiliated national organizations are automatically AILA members. The benefits are:
There are various types of membership in AILA. Individuals can be a member of AILA by membership in a national or regional Association of Applied Linguistics affiliated to AILA or by becoming an individual member of AILA.
These are the guidelines for the preparation of a manuscript accepted for publication in the AILA Review.
For the benefit of production efficiency and the production of texts of the highest quality and consistency, we urge you to follow the enclosed submission guidelines.
Manuscripts should be in either British or American English consistently throughout; if you are not a native speaker of English it is advisable to have your text checked by a native speaker before submission.
When submitting the final manuscript please make sure that you provide the following:
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Our typesetters will do the final formatting of your document. However, some of the text enhancement cannot be done automatically and therefore we kindly ask you to carefully observe the following style.
Please use a minimum of page settings. The preferred setting is 12 pt Times New Roman, double line spacing, on 13 x 22 cm (5" x 8.6") text area. With this setting the ratio manuscript to typeset pages is roughly 2:1. The only relevant codes are those pertaining to font enhancements (italics, bold, caps, small caps, etc.), punctuation, and the format of the references. Whatever formatting or style conventions you use, please be consistent.
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Maarten and Stefanie be out RECP
‘Maarten and Stefanie have split up’
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Authors/contributors are encouraged to supply – with a reference, not instead of – the DOI if they happen to have that information readily available.
Book (monograph):
Labov, W. 1972. Sociolinguistic Patterns. Philadelphia PA: University of Philadelphia Press.
Dissertation:
Buchstaller, I. 2004. The Sociolinguistic Constraints on the Quatative System: British English and US English Compared. PhD dissertation, University of Edinburgh.
Book (edited volume):
Hill, J. & Irvine, J. (eds). 1993. Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse. Cambridge: CUP.
Article (in book):
Bullock, B.E. & Toribio, A.J. 2008. Kreyol incursions into Dominican Spanish: The perception of Haitianized speech among Dominicans. In Bilingualism and Identity. Spanish at the Crossroads with Other Languages [Studies in Bilingualism 37], M. Niño-Murcia & J. Rothman (eds), 175-198). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Articles (in journal):
Schieffelin, B.B. 2008. Speaking only your own mind: Reflections on talk, gossip and intentionality in Bosavi (PNG). Anthropology Quarterly 81(2): 431-441.
Bobaljik, J.D. & Wurmbrand, S. 2002. Notes on agreement in Itelmen. Linguistic Discovery 1(1).
Electronic, online sources:
Liberman, Mark. 2006. Uptalk is not HRT. Language Log, 28 March 2006, (30 March 2006).
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Every three years AILA holds its international World Congress. This congress is the biggest event in Applied Linguistics, bringing together - usually more than 2,000 - researchers and practitioners from all areas of Applied Linguistics for five days.
The Congress is characterized by high level presentations and discussions on key issues of the field. Its format includes keynote addresses, plenary speeches by outstanding scholars, invited symposia, symposia, individual papers and poster presentations.
The first AILA Congress took part in Nancy, France, 1964, presenting in its strands cutting edge findings from theory and practice of the time. Following this model, the programs of the Past Congresses represent the history of the discipline.
Each congress is organised by a different national or regional affiliate. The congress sites alternate between different areas of the world to reflect the global character of AILA.
The second annual International Conference on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education (ICMME 2018) will be held in New Westminster (Metro Vancouver), BC, Canada, on May 31- June 2, 2018. The conference is organized by MultiLingNet, and hosted by Douglas College, Canada.
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.
For more information, visit the conference website: https://icmme18.wordpress.com/conference-calendar/
The need for more regional cooperation among Applied Linguists is obvious in Europe in particular, where there always has been a vast amount and a wide variety of work in Applied Linguistics, but where cross-border cooperation so far takes place only on a smaller scale.
At a meeting hosted by the Free University of Bolzano, Italy, September 2006, to increase intra-European cooperation, a group of European AILA affiliates agreed with the then AILA Secretary General, Karlfried Knapp, to set up a Network of European Applied Linguists (AILA-Europe).
Read more: Network of European Applied Linguists
The next AILA-Europe Junior Researchers Meeting will take place in the context of the 50th Anniversary Congress of GAL, Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik, September 11-14, 2018, in Essen, Germany. https://www.gal-2018.de/home.html
Come to Australia! The organisers already have been working hard to sketch out a program, and to develop events in line with our theme, "One world, many languages". We are excited about the Congress and the opportunity to welcome all of you to share our world – both that of applied linguistics and the special place that Australia is.
See you on the congress website and in August 2014 in Brisbane!
The 50th Anniversary Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics will be hosted by the Centre for Language Education Research, University of Leeds, on 31 August - 2 September 2017.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference theme: Diversity in Applied Linguistics: Opportunities, Challenges, Questions
2017 is the 50th anniversary of the first annual meeting of BAAL. The theme of the conference – Diversity and Applied Linguistics – will enable us to engage with the notion of diversity both of and in Applied Linguistics, in a diversifying world, in this anniversary year. What opportunities are enabled? What challenges are presented? What are the key questions for the field, as we take stock and look forward?
Keynote Speakers
Professor Henry Widdowson, Department of English, University of Vienna
Professor Bencie Woll, Director, Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre, University College London
S. Pit Corder Lecture
Professor Mohamed Daoud, Professor of Applied Linguistics, Institut Supérieur des Langues de Tunis
Submission Guidelines
Abstracts are welcome in any area of Applied Linguistics and should present original research. Abstracts which address the conference theme will be particularly welcome.
DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: 31 March 2017
You will be notified of the outcome of the review process in May 2017.
To submit your abstract:
Please go to the abstracts page of the BAAL 2017 website to submit your abstract:
http://www.baal2017.org.uk/
Abstract submission will be available shortly via this page.
Your contact details will be included in the book of abstracts unless you opt out during the submission process.
FORMAT: Text 300 words maximum (including references, if any). Do not use any special fonts, such as bold print or caps. Do NOT add tables, photos, or diagrams to your abstract. Do NOT indent your paragraphs, leave one space between paragraphs instead.
Type of presentation:
Individual
Special interest group (SIG) track
Poster
Colloquium
Scholarships
BAAL offers scholarships at every annual conference. The scholarships are open to students and early career researchers, with the latter defined as being within 2 years of PhD completion. In addition, BAAL also offers one Chris Brumfit student/early career scholarship which is usually targeted at delegates from outside Britain who would not otherwise have funds to do so to attend the BAAL Annual Meeting. Candidates wishing to apply for either scholarship should submit an abstract in the usual way, indicating clearly on their submission that they wish to be considered for a scholarship. For more information on the scholarships and the selection process please refer to the conference website.
Prizes
Poster prize - A prize will be given to the best poster presented at the conference. The local organising committee will select poster prize judges from the plenary speakers and leaders of invited colloquia. The winner receives £50.
The Richard Pemberton best postgraduate paper prize - The postgraduate development and liaison co-ordinator together with an ordinary member of the BAAL Executive Committee will draw up a shortlist and co-ordinate judges for the Richard Pemberton best postgraduate paper prize. The winner receives £50.
ALL PRESENTERS HAVE TO BE BAAL MEMBERS BY THE TIME THEY REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE.
Conference Website: http://www.baal2017.org.uk/
In case you encountered any difficulty or have any question, please do not hesitate to contact the Meetings Secretary, Alex Leung at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Solidarity awards are for scholars who cannot participate in the AILA World Congress without financial support. The award is made possible by the generous donation of individuals, businesses, and organizations to the Solidarity Fund.
Kinds of awards
Full awards: they covering reasonable travel costs, accommodation and conference fees
Travel awards: they cover reasonable travel costs and conference fees.
Who can apply?
Scholars, whose paper has been accepted for presentation at the AILA World Congress, and who are not supported by their institution or government are eligible to apply for a solidarity award.
When can you apply?
The deadline for submitting an application for a Solidarity Award is usually 1 moth after prospective presenters have been notified by the host of the forthcoming AILA World Congress.
What are the criteria?
(1) Paper accepted by the Congress organizers.
(2) Academic merit or promise.
(3) A financially disadvantaged situation.
How do you apply?
You write a letter of motivation. For full detail see Application for Grants.
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c/o Prof. Dr. Christina Gitsaki
Center for Educational Innovation
Zayed University
Dubai 19282
United Arab Emirates
tel: +971-56-6569906
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AILA pursues the following objectives:
AILA pursues these objectives by means of the following:
AILA issues two different publications:
The AILA Newsletter (AILA News) was discontinued in 2004 with the establishment of the AILA website. Past issues can be accessed here.
AILA Review is a scholarly journal of AILA. Its first issue appeared in 1984, and from 1989, all Volumes are guest-edited and thematically oriented. Up to Volume 16, the journal was published by AILA itself. From Volume 16 onwards, AILA Review is published by John Benjamins.
AILA Applied Linguistics Series (AALS) is a book series published under the editorial responsibility of AILA at John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
AILA is looking for researchers interested in organizing Research Networks (ReN) focused on special topic areas of Applied Linguistics. If you would like to work internationally on your area of research together with other scholars from all over theworld, you might consider applying to be a ReN organizer.
Research Networks (ReNs) seek to promote research and its dissemination in all academic areas of AILA, with a particular focus on areas that have the potential for new cross-disciplinary research.
ReNs exist for three years and can be renewed. At any point in time, there will be about 15 ReNs in existence. Reapplications are required every three years by the criteria listed below:
For applications, the ReN organizer must submit a proposal to the ReN Coordinator. The deadline for submission is two months after the World Congress. The proposal should consist of
Each ReN organizer is responsible for a brief written report to the ReN Coordinator every three years (2 months after the congress).
Applications to set up a ReN should be directed to the AILA ReN Coordinator and the decision on the acceptance of the proposal will be notified to the ReN organizers no later than two months after the proposal submission deadline.
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English as a lingua franca (ELF) is a thriving field of research which has found its place in applied linguistics in the last decade. During this time we have seen an increasing number of publications and research projects on ELF, such as the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) and the corpus of English as a Lingua Franca in Academic Settings (ELFA), the foundation of annual ELF conferences and most recently the creation of a dedicated journal (Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, issue 1.1 published in March 2012) and an ELF book series (Developments in English as a Lingua Franca).
ELF research focuses on the use of English in intercultural situations where speakers with different linguacultural backgrounds share English as their common means of communication and as a dynamic and co-constructed linguistic resource. ELF research has been conducted on different linguistic levels, such as phonology, lexicogrammar, pragmatics and the intersections of these. In addition, studies on ELF have explored various domains, including business and academic settings, and have expanded in different dimensions of investigation, including attitudes and identity, (inter)cultural aspects and pedagogical implications.
With an increasing amount of empirical descriptions available, some of the burning questions about ELF concern applied linguistic matters of language teaching and communication training, language policy, language awareness and multilingualism. Other issues concern methodological questions, which relate to qualitative and quantitative approaches as well as to technological aspects of corpus linguistic applications. An important future development of ELF as a field in applied linguistics would seem to be furthering collaborations with researchers from different disciplines, within and outside linguistics.
It is the aim of this research network to serve as forum for debate, discussion and more extensive collaboration among researchers and applied linguists who are actively involved in ELF research. The network currently includes over 65 participants (from more than 20 countries) who have various areas of expertise within ELF research. They include scholars at different stages of their careers, ranging from PhD students to very experienced academics, all of whom will help advance ELF research and applied linguistics by bringing in their different disciplinary and cultural perspectives.
If you are actively involved in ELF research and are interested in joining the network please contact the ELF-ReN convenors:
Dr. Alessia Cogo, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Dr. Marie-Luise Pitzl, University of Vienna
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ELF-ReN Activities
The annual ELF conferences (University of Helsinki in 2008, University of Southampton in 2009, University of Vienna in 2010, Hong Kong Institute of Education in 2011, Bogaziçi University Istanbul in 2012) provide excellent opportunities for research exchange on ELF and for meeting other ELF-ReN participants. With the acceptance of this AILA ReN on ELF in February 2012, short ELF-ReN meetings will from now on be organized at each ELF conference.
The 1st ELF-ReN meeting was held at:
5th International Conference on English as a lingua franca (ELF5), Conference Theme: Pedagogical Implications of ELF in the Expanding Circle, 24-26 May 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.
The next ELF conference and ELF-ReN meeting was:
6th International Conference on English as a lingua franca (ELF6), Conference Theme: Intercultural Communication: new perspectives from ELF, 4-7 September 2013, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy
ELF-ReN workshops
In addition to the ELF conferences, one or two themed smaller ELF-ReN workshops will be organized per year.
The 1st ELF-ReN workshop was held at:
1st ELF-ReN Workshop, Workshop Theme: ‘Teaching (B)ELF and/or Intercultural Communication?’, initiated by Susanne Ehrenreich & Marie-Luise Pitzl, 22-23 June 2012, TU Dortmund University.
The 2nd ELF-ReN Workshop took place at the University of Southampton in Fall 2013. For any information please contact Alessia Cogo.
AILA issues two different publications:
The AILA Newsletter (AILA News) was discontinued in 2004 with the establishment of the AILA website. Past issues can be accessed here.
AILA Review is a scholarly journal of AILA. Its first issue appeared in 1984, and from 1989, all Volumes are guest-edited and thematically oriented. Up to Volume 16, the journal was published by AILA itself. From Volume 16 onwards, AILA Review is published by John Benjamins.
AILA Applied Linguistics Series (AALS) is a book series published under the editorial responsibility of AILA at John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
AILA issues two different publications:
The AILA Newsletter (AILA News) was discontinued in 2004 with the establishment of the AILA website. Past issues can be accessed here.
AILA Review is a scholarly journal of AILA. Its first issue appeared in 1984, and from 1989, all Volumes are guest-edited and thematically oriented. Up to Volume 16, the journal was published by AILA itself. From Volume 16 onwards, AILA Review is published by John Benjamins.
AILA Applied Linguistics Series (AALS) is a book series published under the editorial responsibility of AILA at John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
Kagoshima, 31 August 2015. Speakers from CELEA (China), JACET (Japan), and ALAK (South Korea) joined the Second AILA East-Asia Symposium at the JACET 54th International Convention to expand and promote the academic activities of AILA in the East-Asian region. The AILA Vice President encouraged the regional network to grow in terms of both topics and affiliates.
Prof. Wen Qiufang (Beijing Foreign Studies U., CELEA)
Prof. Xun Xiaoming (Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, CELEA)
Prof. Joo-Kyung Park (Honam U., ALAK)
Prof. Jihyeon Jeon (Ewha Womans U., ALAK)
Prof. Hisako Yamauchi (Former Prof. of U. of Nagasaki, JACET)
Prof. Masaki Oda (Tamagawa U., JACET)
Prof. Daniel Perrin (Zurich U. of Applied Sciences)
Summary and Comments by Daniel Perrin, AILA Vice President
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Postal address
c/o Prof. Dr. Christina Gitsaki
Center for Educational Innovation
Zayed University
Dubai 19282
United Arab Emirates
tel: +971-56-6569906
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INT. ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS (AILA)
c/o Deutsches Seminar,Universität Basel, Nadelberg 4, 4051 Basel, SwitzerlandBank name and address: UBS AG, Aeschenplatz 6, 4052 Basel, SwitzerlandAccount: 0233-750204.60UIBAN Code: CH120023323375020460U
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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.
Dear Colleagues,
At the end of the 2017 AILA World Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Claire Kramsch handed the baton of the AILA presidency over to me. I am happy to take up this baton – and very honored to do so. There are three reasons for me to feel this way: First, it is the baton of AILA, a unique organization in the academic landscape; second, it is a hand-over from a proven team to a promising one; and third, exciting challenges are awaiting us. Please let me briefly elaborate on these three points, as an invitation to the next three years of AILA collaboration.
The first reason why I am honoured to take up the baton is AILA itself: On our website we claim that "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 […]". Many of the contributions at the AILA World Congress in Rio have shown again how our open-minded, provocative and, at the same time, linguistically precise research helps communities address language-related issues of political relevance. In other words, serving AILA contributes to scrutinizing social patterns and, if we go beyond scrutiny, to making this world a better one, especially for those in need of change.
The second reason is our team: I remember Claire Kramsch commenting on a keynote in Paris that “solving problems is OK but the main question is whose problems we deal with”. Indeed, continually raising this question makes the difference between reiterating the status quo and actually fostering development. Claire, if you did not stay with AILA as our past president, we would badly miss you. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Bernd Rüschoff, Marjolijn Verspoor, Shawn Loewen, and Hisako Yamauchi for serving on the AILA board as past president, treasurer, ReN coordinator and member at large, respectively – and to welcome Azirah Hashim, Marlies Whitehouse, Laura Gurzinski-Weiss, and Low Ee Ling, as vice president, treasurer, ReN coordinator, and member at large (https://www.aila.info/en/about/organization/executive-board.html).
The third reason is our set of challenges. There are three dimensions of development I want to focus on as the AILA President from 2017 to 2020: a) exploiting AILA being a UNESCO partner organization in order to influence politics and foster development where we need it most; b) creating societal impact and, at the same time, showing that language and its investigation in the transdisciplinary field of Applied Linguistics matter; and c) collaborating more closely with our more than 8,000 members, our over 35 national organizations, and our existing and emerging regional networks, such as AILA East Asia, AILA Europe, AILA Arabia, and AILA Latin America.
In sum, taking up the baton now means serving a socially indispensable organization and topic, collaborating with highly motivated colleagues and friends, and connecting with a challenged and challenging world. Together we can provide empirical evidence, for example, of the interdependency of media literacy and social participation. Or we can depict and explain the strong ties between financial literacy and the distribution of wealth. And more than that, together we can develop scenarios to solve the problems in the interest of those whose voices have long been ignored, and we can implement sustainable solutions. Applied Linguistics and AILA must therefore be a driving force of development. Let’s go!
Daniel Perrin
July 2017