Zahadin Omar

23-28 July 2017, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Innovation and Epistemological Challenges in Applied Linguistics

For more information see: http://www.aila2017.com.br/index.php/en/

17th AILA World Congress

10-15 August 2014, Brisbane, Australia

One World - Many Languages

Congress Abstracts

AILA2014 on Facebook

Publications:

Gitsaki, C., & Ruschoff, B. (Eds.) (2015). Language and technology: Current trends and practices. Special issue. International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 5(3). DOI: 10.4018/IJCALLT

Gitsaki, C., & Coombe, C. (2016). Current issues in language evaluation, assessment and testing: Research and practice. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Gitsaki, C., & Alexiou, T. (2015). Current issues in second/foreign language teaching and teacher development: Research and practice. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Gitsaki, C., Gobert, M., & Demirci, H. (2015). Current issues in reading, writing and visual literacy: Research and practice. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

16th AILA World Congress

23-29 August 2011, CELEA, Beijing, China

Harmony in Diversity: Language, Culture, Society

For more information, see http://www.aila2011.org/en/

15th AILA World Congress

24-29 August 2008, GAL, Essen, Germany

Multilingualism: Challenges and Opportunities

For more information see http://www.aila2008.org/

14th AILA World Congress

25-29 July 2005, AAAL, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

The future is now!

The congress website is no longer available. You may still find some information via the "Wayback Machine" of archive.org.

13th AILA World Congress

16-21 December 2002, Singapore

Applied Linguistics in the 21^st Century: Opportunities for Innovation & Creativity

12th AILA World Congress

1-6 August 1999, Tokyo, Japan

The Roles of Language in the 21^st Century: Unity and Diversity.

Publications

(1999): Selected Papers from AILA '99 Tokyo. Edited by AILA '99 Tokyo Organizing Committee. Tokyo: Waseda University Press.

11th AILA World Congress

August 1996, Jyväskylä, Finland

Currently no further information available!

10th AILA World Congress

8-14 August 1993, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Publications

Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (ed.) (1995): Multilingualism for all. Swets & Zeitlinger Lisse.

9th AILA World Congress

1990, Halkidiki, Greece

Publications

AILA90, Greece (1990). Proceedings, vols 1-6. Edited by AILA 90 Greece Organising Committee. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press. 

Efstathiadis, S. (ed.) (1991). Initial and in-service Foreign Language Teacher education. Symposium organized by the AILA Scientific Commission on “FLT Methodology and Teacher Education”, 17-18 April , AILA90 Halkidiki, Greece. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press.

Efstathiadis, S. (ed.) (1990). Journal of Applied Linguistics (JAL), vol. 6. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press. 

For more information see attached file.

8th AILA World Congress

16-21 August 1987, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia

Publications

Halliday, M.A.K., Gibbons, John & Nicholas, Howard (eds.) (1990): Learning, keeping and using language: selected papers from the eighth world congress of Applied Linguistics. 2 Volumes. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

7th AILA World Congress

5-10 August 1984, University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

The Contribution of Applied Linguistics to International Understanding

Publications

Den Haese, Jan & Nivette, Jos (eds.) (1984): AILA Brussels 84. Proceedings. Volume 1-4.

6th AILA World Congress

1981, Lund, Sweden

Publications

Nickel, Gerhard & Nehls, Dietrich (eds.) (1982): Error analysis, contrastive linguistics and second language learning: papers from the 6th Internat. Congress of Applied Linguistics. Heidelberg: Groos.

Sigurd, Bengt (ed.) (1982): Proceedings/AILA 81: abstracts of section papers and workshop summaries.

5th AILA World Congress

20-26 August 1978, Montréal, Canada

Publications

Savard, Jean-Guy (ed.) (1981): Actes du 5e Congrès de l'Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée. Québec: Les Pr. De l'univ. Laval.

4th AILA World Congress

25-30 August 1975, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Publications

Abstracts: Stuttgart, 25th-30th August/ International Congress of Applied Linguistics

3rd AILA World Congress

21-26 August 1972, ADLA, Copenhagen, Denmark

Publications

Nickel, Gerhard (ed.) (1974): Applied contrastive linguistics.

Verdoodt, A. (ed.) (1974): Applied sociolinguistics.

Qvistgaard, Jaques, Schwarz, H. & Spang-Hanssen, H. (eds.) (1974): Applied linguistics: Problems and solutions.

2nd AILA World Congress

8-12 September 1969, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England

Publications

Perren, G.E. & Trim, John (eds.) (1971): Applications of Linguistics: selected papers of the second International Congress of Applied Linguistics. Cambridge: CUP

Primsleur, Paul (ed.) (1973): The psychology of second language learning: papers from the Second International Congress of Applied Linguistics. Cambridge: CUP.

1st AILA World Congress

26-31 October 1964, University of Nancy, Nancy, France

Publications

Actes du premier Colloque International de Linguistique Appliquée. Nancy, 1966.
Preface by Bernhard Pottier & Guy Bourquin.

• I. L'Automatiosation en Linguistique
• II. Pédagogie des Langues Vivantes
• III. La Coordination des Recherches dans le Domaine Européen 

The University of Jyväskylä Language Campus is pleased to organize the

16th International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML XVI) &

34th Summer School and Conference of Applied Language Studies

which will be held in Jyväskylä & Närpes, Finland August 28-30, 2017

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The submission of proposals is now open at https://congress.cc.jyu.fi/icml2017/cgi-bin/contact.cgi and closes on February 28, 2017. Please, submit your proposal by filling out an online form.

Proposals regarding original and previously unpublished research on minority languages are invited. All proposals should fall broadly within the conference theme revaluing minority languages.

Types of presentations: 1) paper, 2) poster, 3) colloquium, and 4) workshop (with hands-on activities based on some data or a specific topic).

Length of abstracts: paper, poster or workshop (500 words, max., including references).

Proposals for colloquia

Colloquia are collections of paper presentations that relate to a narrowly defined topic of interest, and are offered in a three-hour time block. Proposals for colloquia are limited to 700 words, and should include brief summaries of each of the papers to be included, along with paper titles and individual authors’ names. Sufficient detail should be provided to allow peer reviewers to judge the scientific merit of the proposal. The person submitting a proposal for a colloquium is responsible for securing the permission and co-operation of all participants before the proposal is submitted. A chair for the session must also be identified.

Language policy

The language of the conference is English. If a presentation is based on data in any other language, use of multilingual material (e.g. in Power Point slides, handouts) is recommended.

Reviewing of abstracts

The proposals for any type of presentation will be evaluated anonymously by at least two members of the Organizing Committee, and they will be evaluated for their contribution to the field, quality of content, thematic relevance and quality of abstract (organization, clarity of expression).

Presentation acceptances will be sent out by April 10, 2017.

CONFERENCE THEME: REVALUING MINORITY LANGUAGES

Minority languages have long been used by different groups of social actors for identity and community building purposes, such as the symbolic, material, and political mobilisation of linguistic and cultural rights. Currently, under changing political, economic and cultural conditions around the world, minority languages are subject to multiple, overlapping and even contradictory discourses and practices of valuation and revaluation.

The peripheral position of minority languages, as structured by nation-state logics, and the central role endowed to them in the political projects of various minority groups are now complexified by both the increasing economic value of minority languages as a resource of distinction and authenticity, and by the intensified mobility of languages and their speakers. Some of the consequences of this complexification result in re-evaluating relationship between minority and migrant languages and the trajectories of so-called “new speakers” of minority languages.

ICML XVI will address critical questions such as how minority languages are valued, by whom and under what conditions.

The conference is open to researchers, students and stakeholders from across the multidisciplinary field of minority languages.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMME

In addition to the talks delivered by plenary speakers, the programme will consist of panel discussions, paper and poster sessions, colloquia and workshops.

Talks by plenary speakers:

Professor Helen Kelly Holmes (University of Limerick, Ireland)

Professor Ingrid Piller (Macquarie University, Australia)

Director Robert Adam (University College London, UK)

Professor Sari Pöyhönen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

There will be two invited panel discussions: 1) Historical language minorities in Finland and in the neighboring countries; and 2) Immigration and integration in the Swedish speaking regions of Finland.

Pre- or post-conference workshops will be organized by plenary speakers.

Please visit the website www.jyu.fi/icml2017 for regular updates on ICML XIV.

Correspondence with organizers: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Follow us on Twitter! @ApplingJYU #ICMLXVI

AILA Congresses

23-28 July 2017, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Innovation and Epistemological Challenges in Applied Linguistics

For more information see: http://www.aila2017.com.br/index.php/en/

17th AILA World Congress

10-15 August 2014, Brisbane, Australia

One World - Many Languages

Congress Abstracts

AILA2014 on Facebook

Publications:

Gitsaki, C., & Ruschoff, B. (Eds.) (2015). Language and technology: Current trends and practices. Special issue. International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 5(3). DOI: 10.4018/IJCALLT

Gitsaki, C., & Coombe, C. (2016). Current issues in language evaluation, assessment and testing: Research and practice. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Gitsaki, C., & Alexiou, T. (2015). Current issues in second/foreign language teaching and teacher development: Research and practice. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Gitsaki, C., Gobert, M., & Demirci, H. (2015). Current issues in reading, writing and visual literacy: Research and practice. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

16th AILA World Congress

23-29 August 2011, CELEA, Beijing, China

Harmony in Diversity: Language, Culture, Society

For more information, see http://www.aila2011.org/en/

15th AILA World Congress

24-29 August 2008, GAL, Essen, Germany

Multilingualism: Challenges and Opportunities

For more information see http://www.aila2008.org/

14th AILA World Congress

25-29 July 2005, AAAL, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

The future is now!

The congress website is no longer available. You may still find some information via the "Wayback Machine" of archive.org.

13th AILA World Congress

16-21 December 2002, Singapore

Applied Linguistics in the 21^st Century: Opportunities for Innovation & Creativity

12th AILA World Congress

1-6 August 1999, Tokyo, Japan

The Roles of Language in the 21^st Century: Unity and Diversity.

Publications

(1999): Selected Papers from AILA '99 Tokyo. Edited by AILA '99 Tokyo Organizing Committee. Tokyo: Waseda University Press.

11th AILA World Congress

August 1996, Jyväskylä, Finland

Currently no further information available!

10th AILA World Congress

8-14 August 1993, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Publications

Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (ed.) (1995): Multilingualism for all. Swets & Zeitlinger Lisse.

9th AILA World Congress

1990, Halkidiki, Greece

Publications

AILA90, Greece (1990). Proceedings, vols 1-6. Edited by AILA 90 Greece Organising Committee. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press. 

Efstathiadis, S. (ed.) (1991). Initial and in-service Foreign Language Teacher education. Symposium organized by the AILA Scientific Commission on “FLT Methodology and Teacher Education”, 17-18 April , AILA90 Halkidiki, Greece. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press.

Efstathiadis, S. (ed.) (1990). Journal of Applied Linguistics (JAL), vol. 6. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press. 

For more information see attached file.

8th AILA World Congress

16-21 August 1987, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia

Publications

Halliday, M.A.K., Gibbons, John & Nicholas, Howard (eds.) (1990): Learning, keeping and using language: selected papers from the eighth world congress of Applied Linguistics. 2 Volumes. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

7th AILA World Congress

5-10 August 1984, University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

The Contribution of Applied Linguistics to International Understanding

Publications

Den Haese, Jan & Nivette, Jos (eds.) (1984): AILA Brussels 84. Proceedings. Volume 1-4.

6th AILA World Congress

1981, Lund, Sweden

Publications

Nickel, Gerhard & Nehls, Dietrich (eds.) (1982): Error analysis, contrastive linguistics and second language learning: papers from the 6th Internat. Congress of Applied Linguistics. Heidelberg: Groos.

Sigurd, Bengt (ed.) (1982): Proceedings/AILA 81: abstracts of section papers and workshop summaries.

5th AILA World Congress

20-26 August 1978, Montréal, Canada

Publications

Savard, Jean-Guy (ed.) (1981): Actes du 5e Congrès de l'Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée. Québec: Les Pr. De l'univ. Laval.

4th AILA World Congress

25-30 August 1975, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Publications

Abstracts: Stuttgart, 25th-30th August/ International Congress of Applied Linguistics

3rd AILA World Congress

21-26 August 1972, ADLA, Copenhagen, Denmark

Publications

Nickel, Gerhard (ed.) (1974): Applied contrastive linguistics.

Verdoodt, A. (ed.) (1974): Applied sociolinguistics.

Qvistgaard, Jaques, Schwarz, H. & Spang-Hanssen, H. (eds.) (1974): Applied linguistics: Problems and solutions.

2nd AILA World Congress

8-12 September 1969, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England

Publications

Perren, G.E. & Trim, John (eds.) (1971): Applications of Linguistics: selected papers of the second International Congress of Applied Linguistics. Cambridge: CUP

Primsleur, Paul (ed.) (1973): The psychology of second language learning: papers from the Second International Congress of Applied Linguistics. Cambridge: CUP.

1st AILA World Congress

26-31 October 1964, University of Nancy, Nancy, France

Publications

Actes du premier Colloque International de Linguistique Appliquée. Nancy, 1966.
Preface by Bernhard Pottier & Guy Bourquin.

• I. L'Automatiosation en Linguistique
• II. Pédagogie des Langues Vivantes
• III. La Coordination des Recherches dans le Domaine Européen 

The 3^rd International Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Immigration (Slimig2018), is organized by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Modern Cultures of the University of Turin (Italy). The conference will be held in Sestri Levante (Genoa), Italy, on September 27-28, 2018.

The focus of the conference is on sociolinguistic, anthropological, ethnographic linguistic and discourse theoretical perspectives and empirically-grounded methodologies on "language practices, narratives, identities, ideologies and politics of (im)mobility in migratory contexts".

We are delighted to announce that so far the following key speakers have been confirmed:

Anna De Fina, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

Abstract Submission

-Each abstract should not exceed 500 words (incl. at least four keywords and references). 

-Text should be justified and single-spaced (font size: Times New Roman 12pt). 

-Name, affiliation, and e-mail address should be on separate first page of the electronic copy. 

-Every individual presentation will last 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for discussion and questions). 

Important dates 
-The abstract submission period opens on November 15, 2017.

-Abstracts can be submitted until February 19, 2018.  

-Abstracts should be sent as a word attachment to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

-Confirmation of acceptance: March 10, 2018.

Registration 

-Registration for the conference starts on March 11, 2018 and closes on April 30, 2018.

-The conference fees are: 170€.

-The registration fees cover participation in the conference, coffee breaks, lunches and conference pack.

Further details on the conference can be found at: https://sites.google.com/unito.it/sociolinguisticsimmigration/home.

 Local organizer: Gerardo Mazzaferro (all enquires to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Upcoming Congresses

The next AILA World Congress will take place August 9-14, 2020 at The University of Groningen, in Groningen, The Netherlands. Visit the Congress website  for more detailed information about the venue and the conference.

The Call for Papers will be made available on the AILA 2020 website.

Application for Grants

AILA aims to extend participation in Applied Linguistics across geographical areas not currently well represented in our association by offering a limited number of Solidarity Awards to scholars in Applied Linguistics who might be unable to participate in the World Congress without financial support.

Scholars who would like to apply for the Solidarity Award can find more information under Solidarity Awards.

The deadline for the applications will be announced on this site and on the official AILA2020 website.

InJAL

International Journal of Applied Linguistics

The International Journal of Applied Linguistics (InJAL) publishes articles that explore the relationship between expertise in linguistics, broadly defined, and the everyday experience of language. Its scope is international in that it welcomes articles which show explicitly how local issues of language use or learning exemplify more global concerns.

InJAL focusses on "working towards a truly international representation of work in applied linguistics, with equitable participation from different parts of the world" (Editorial 2007, 17/1, 1f.). This means on the one hand putting "particular emphasis on supporting authors and publishing papers from a wide variety of regions and cultures, thereby demonstrating that while the language of this journal is English (...), its concerns are by no means confined to what goes on in English-speaking communities", and on the other hand paying "particular attention in the reviewing process to the requirement that papers from diverse backgrounds make explicit how local issues in applied linguistics exemplify more global concerns". Since the issue 17.1, InJAL has published news from AILA: "InJAL will contribute to making the work of AILA better known to researchers, especially the opportunities this association creates for international networking and collaboration."

The International Journal of Applied Linguistics InJAL is published in co-operation with AILA. In 2007, AILA has given its official endorsement of InJAL. The union will promote the goal of encouraging international scholarship that both the Journal and the Association share. AILA members receive a 20% discount on InJAL.
Homepage:  http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0802-6106

AILA World Congresses

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.

Convenors

Mary Jane Curry, University of Rochester, US mThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Theresa Lillis, The Open University, UK This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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:

• Disseminating information about research on scholarly publishing and presenting,  governmental and institutional evaluation criteria and practical activities related to publishing and presenting.
• Creating an online space for sharing resources and research reports. We have set up an open Google Group at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/aila-pub-ren 
• Informing scholarly associations, publishers, and other audiences about research findings of practical use to scholars in publishing and presenting research.
• Creating strategies for working with journal editors and reviewers, scientists/scholars, authors’ editors, and policymakers in terms of the challenges  presented, including access to resources available to multilingual scholars for publishing and presenting in English
• Holding sessions at international conferences including a symposium at AILA 2014 on Research on Academic Publishing and Its Applications

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. 

Third Party Publications

The International Journal of Applied Linguistics (InJAL) publishes articles that explore the relationship between expertise in linguistics, broadly defined, and the everyday experience of language. Its scope is international in that it welcomes articles which show explicitly how local issues of language use or learning exemplify more global concerns.
Homepage: http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0802-6106

Awardees 2008

With special thanks to the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) for a generous contribution towards the Solidarity Award we are pleased to announce this year's awardees:

• Anita Pavic Pintaric – Croatia
  Research assistant, University of Zadar
  Paper: Modifications of Idioms in the German and Croatian language of fashion
• Pinky Makoe – South Africa
  Lecturer (on leave), University of the Witwatersrand
  Paper: Constructing Identities in Multilingual Classrooms in South Africa
• Ayu'nwi N. Neba – Cameroon
  Lecturer, University of Buea
  Paper: The English Language Teacher and the Falling Standards of English/Education in Cameroon
• Teresa Wlosowicz - Poland
  Doctoral student in the 'co-tutelle' system, University of Silesia and Marc Bloch University
  Paper: L2 and L3 Word Representations in the Multilingual Lexicon
• K. Kanthimathi – India
  Research Scholar, Indian Institute of Technology
  Paper: TANGLISH: A byproduct of Tamil and English language contact
• Dora Francisca Edu-Buandoh – Ghana
  Lecturer, University of Cape Coast
  Paper: Syntactic Structures Used In Educated Ghanaian English to Mark Politeness
• Hassan Belhiah – Morocco
  Assistant Professor, AlAkhawayn University
  Paper: The functional uses of gesture in the activity of definitions
• I-Hsin Liu – Taiwan
  Doctoral student, University of Leuven
  Paper: Acquiring L2 vocabulary from reading-and-writing tasks
• Kizitus Mpoche – Cameroon
  Senior Lecturer,University of Yaounde I ; Executive Secretary of the Cameroon Association of Applied Linguistics (CAMAAL)
  Paper: Second Language Learning in a Multilingual Setting: The Primary School Experience in Cameroon
• Hong Zhu – China
  Associate Professor, Northeast Normal University (NENU)
  Paper: The power of language: Chinese immigrants’ integration into Canadian society
• Simplice Simeu – Cameroon
  Doctoral student, University of Yaounde
  Paper: The Roles Of Cross-border Languages On The Africa’s Development 
• Katarzyna Papaja – Poland
  Doctoral student, University of Silesia
  Paper: Language development in CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Language)
• Fernando Ferreira-Junior – Brazil
  Assistant Lecturer, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Ouro Preto
  Paper: Form, function and frequency in the learning of constructions
• Han Han – China
  Doctoral student, Queen’s University
  Paper: College English Teachers’ Change in Beliefs and Conceptions: A Case Study
• Huynh Cong Minh Hung – Vietnam
  Lecturer, Hochiminh City University of Pedagogy
  Paper: Split attention in reading comprehension: a case of English as a second/foreign language (ESL/EFL)
• Dudu Jankie – Botswana
  Lecturer, University of Botswana
  Paper: Textbooks as representation of diversity issues: Analysis of language textbooks in Botswana schools 
• Shahabaddin Behtari – Iran
  Lecturer in ELT, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil Branch
  Paper: Task-elicited variability: What does text access have to offer?
• Razaul Karim Faquire – Bangladesh
  Associate Professor and Researcher, University of Dhaka
  Paper: Learner Variety of Modality in the Emergent Interlanguage of Japanese
• Carolina A. Nunez – Philippines
  Assistant Professor, Ateneo de Manila University
  Paper: Coherence Features of Compositions Written by Filipino College Freshmen
• Vanessa Borges de Almeida – Brazil
  Doctoral student, Universidade Estadual Paulista – UNESP
  Paper: The issue of pronunciation and events of language testing in a Brazilian teacher education context 
• Renata de Oliveira Razuk – Brazil
  Doctoral student, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
  Paper: Verb transitivity in Portuguese as a third language: prepositional transfer from English L1 and Spanish L2

ICMME17

University of Minho, Braga (PORTUGAL)

11-13 May 2017

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.

The two categories of proposals are: individual papers and posters.

Submission is already open and will close on 15 February 2017. Presenters are requested to include their name, affiliation and email address in the submitted MS-Word documents. All proposals should be sent to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

More information to be found: https://bragaconfmultiling.wordpress.com/ 

All presenters will be invited to submit their full papers for publication by 1 September 2017. Selected papers will be published in “Multilingualism” with De Gruyter Open.

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).

AILA-Europe has as its objectives to improve communication and cooperation among European Applied Linguists and for this purpose intends

• to inform on a website about latest publications, projects and congresses of the individual national AILA affiliates,
• to organize joint conferences or similar events that make it easier geographically for Applied Linguists from Europe to meet and to exchange ideas,
• to edit a European Journal of Applied Linguistics which focuses on European topics and research done by European scholars in particular and which publishes contributions in several European languages,
• to promote young researches by organizing an annual conference exclusively for junior researchers of Applied Linguistics from all over Europe where they can present their research findings,
• to conduct an annual meeting of representatives from European AILA affiliates where new issues of European concern, in particular with respect to multilingualism will be identified and where priorities for future cooperation will be set,
• to initiate and carry out joint projects to such Europe-related topics.
• to achieve consultative status with the EU and the Council of Europe, given the amount of competence on language policy related issues in Europe available among the European associations of Applied Linguistics.

The organization of AILA-Europe is intended to be as lean as possible and is mainly restricted to an AILA-Europe Coordinator. The current AILA-Europe coordinator is Aleksandra Gnach (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland).

At present, the national associations of Applied Linguistics from the following countries have joined AILA-Europe:

Austria Verband für Angewandte Linguistik (VERBAL) Estonia Estonian Association of Applied Linguistics (EAAL) Finland Association Finlandaise de Linguistique Appliquée (AFinLA) France Association Française de Linguistique Appliquée (AFLA) Germany Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL) Greece Greek Applied Linguistics Association (GALA) Italy Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (AItLA) Ireland Irish Association for Applied Linguistics (IRAAL) Lithuania Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association (LITAKA) Netherlands Association Néerlandaise de Linguistique Appliquée (ANéLA) Russian Federation National Association of Applied Linguistics (NAAL) Switzerland Association Suisse de Linguistique Appliquée (VALS/ASLA) Spain Asociación Española de Lingústica Aplicada (AEsLA) Sweden Association Suédoise de Linguistique Appliquée (ASLA) United Kingdom British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)

Current activities of AILA-Europe

After Bolzano, Italy (2006), AILA-Europe Meetings were held in Essen, Germany (2008), Limerick, Ireland (2009 and 2013), Spain (2011), Netherlands (2012), Finland (2014), and Winterthur, Switzerland (2015).

In January 2007, the first AILA-Europe Junior Researchers Meeting (JMR) took place at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. Since then, the JRM has been held in various European countries, amongst them Ireland, Finland, Germany, and Switzerland.

AILA-Europe was represented with a string of Europe-related symposia at the AILA World Congresses in Essen, Germany (2008), Beijing, China (2011), and Brisbane, Australia (2014).

Mouton-de Gruyter Publishers, Berlin, is publishing the European Journal of Applied Linguistics in cooperation with the AILA-Europe affiliates.

With the help of a questionnaire sent to all individual members of the European AILA Affiliates in spring 2008, AILA-Europe has conducted a survey of the fields of interest and preferred areas as well as ways of cross-border cooperation among European Applied Linguists. The results of this survey can be accessed here .

AILA-Europe Meetings

2006: Bolzano, Italy

2007: Erfurt, Germany

2008: Essen, Germany

2009: Limerick, Ireland 

2011: Salamanca, Spain

2012: Lunteren,  Netherlands

2013: Dublin, Ireland

2014: Jyväskylä, Finland

2015: Winterthur, Switzerland

2016: Tallinn, Estland

2017: Vienna, Austria

2018: Essen, Germany

AILA is pleased to announce the establishment of the following Research Networks (ReNs) for the 2017-2020 cycle.

If you would like more information about a specific ReN, please contact the convenor.

Academic Publishing and Presenting in a Global Context

Convenors:

Mary Jane Curry (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) 

Theresa Lillis (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Adapting Mainstream Learning Environments to and for Learners from Migrant Backgrounds: Making Digital and Linguistic Knowledge Links

Convenors:

Shelley K. Taylor (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Saskia Van Viegen Stille (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Applied Linguistics in Sport

Convenors:

David Caldwell (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Antje Wilton (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Communication in Specialized Domains

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Inmaculada Álvarez de Mon y Rego (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Creative Inquiry in Applied Linguistics

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Lou Harvey (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Jessica Bradley (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Emily Moore (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Second Language Studies: Terms and Concepts in French and English

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Shona Whyte (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Henry Tyne (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Early Language Learning (3-12 years)

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Heather Hilton (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Emotion and Creativity in Language Education (ECLE)

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Simon Coffey (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

English as a Lingua Franca

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Alessia Cogo (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Sávio Siqueira (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Engaging with Pedagogical Perspectives to Interrogate Content and Language Integration

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Ana Llinares (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Letizia Cinganotto (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Russell Cross (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Financial Communication

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Rudi Palmieri (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Alexander Laskin (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Convenors:

Maria Rieder (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Anne-Charlotte Husson (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Fully Inclusive Practitioner Research in Applied Linguistics

Convenors:

Judith Hanks (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Inés Kayon de Miller (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Assia Slimani-Rolls (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Gesture, Multimodality, and SLA

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Kimi Nakatsukasa (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Gale Stam (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

History of Language Learning and Teaching

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Richard Smith (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Giovanni Iamartino (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Intercultural Mediation in Language and Culture Teaching and Learning

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Martine Derivry (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Anthony J. Liddicoat (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Interlocutor and Instructor Individual Differences in Cognition and Second Language Acquisition

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Laura Gurzynski-Weiss (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Language Policy

Convenor:

Sarah C. K. Moore (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Language Teacher Education and Development

Convenors:

Zhou Yan

Zhang Lian (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Learner Autonomy

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Kerstin Dofs (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Andy Gao (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Moira Hobbs (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Literacies Across Languages and Social Domains

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Paula Tatianne Carréra Szundy (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Judith Green (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Maria Lucia Castanheira (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Literature in Language Learning and Teaching (LiLLT)

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Amos Paran (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Petra Kirchhoff (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Media Linguistics

Convenors:

Geert Jacobs (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Daniel Perrin (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Migrants in Working Life: Language and Im/mobilities

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Minna Suni (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Julie Kerekes (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Jo Angouri (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Mobile Gaming in Language Learning & Teaching

Convenors:

Hayo Reinders (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Mark Pegrum (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Perspectives and Trajectories of the Language Teacher in the 21st Century

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Ursula Stickler (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Regine Hampel (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Sarah Heiser (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Pauline Ernest (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Joseph Hopkins (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Aline Germain-Rutherford (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Martina Emke (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Race, Gender, Sexuality and Language

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Glenda Cristina Valim de Melo (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Social and Affective Factors in Home Language Maintenance and Development

Convenors:

Andrea Schalley (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Susana Eisenchlas (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

The Linguistics of Food

Convenors:

Cornelia Gerhardt (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Polly Szatrowski (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Sally Wiggins (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Jon Coltz (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Awardees 2017

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Argentina

Paper: Intercultural Competence in Practice and Beyond.

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Brazil

Paper: Multimodalidade de sentido: Análise da relação texto-imagem em textos multimodais extraídos de websites educacionais.

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Brazil

Paper: Silence and Adult Learning in Additional Language Classrooms.

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Brazil

Paper: O ethos da comparação cultural em um contexto de ensino/aprendizagem de Português como Língua Estrangeira.

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Brazil

Paper: Critical Language Teaching in a Public School: Problematizing Experiences of Being Fat.

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Peru

Paper: Abstrac de Experiencia Nin os y nin as dialogando con carin o con los abuelos de la comunidad.

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Uruguay

Paper: Trazando un camino hacia la enseñanza de la pronunciación del español rioplatense.

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Canada

Paper: Negotiating the Zone of Proximal Development in an Academic Writing Classroom: A Case Study.

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USA

Paper: Children and Youth in Indigenous Language Revitalization: Latin American Perspectives.

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Iran

Paper: Fostering Intercultural Understanding in English Language Classrooms: Context of Iran.

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Malawi

Paper: A Complex Web of Decisions: Family Language Policy Choices in Multilingual Malawi.

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South Africa

Paper: Queering Beyond the Queer: Discourses of the Everyday as Spaces for Resistance and Theory-Building.

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Australia

Paper: Socio-Cultural Perspective of ESL Teacher Education.

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United Kingdom

Paper: Innovative Methods in Researching Online Teacher Professional Development.

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The research network Media Linguistics links applied linguists who address crucial aspects of text production (written, oral and online) in the domain of public discourse in general and news media in particular. The aim of the newly emerging field of media linguistics is to investigate the highly complex and dynamic interplay of language use in public spheres, newsrooms, and news source domains such as business or politics. Appropriate inter- and transdisciplinary theories, methodologies, and solutions to practical problems in this emerging field of applied linguistics will be developed. It is suggested that media linguistics (in particular knowledge about news production processes) can significantly improve our understanding of language dynamics in an increasingly mediatized world.

Field of activity

“[T]here is a dearth of work on the production of news language (…)” That was how Allan Bell concluded his 2006 encyclopedia article about news language” (Bell 2006). How right he was. Investigating text production processes in media workplaces remains a gap in all the disciplines involved: writing research, communication studies, and applied linguistics. Linguistics first focused on written language, later describing conversations as processes, and only then rediscovered written language from a process perspective. But even today journalism and news media seem of little interest to most linguists investigating text production processes. Media discourse continues to be predominantly investigated from a product-oriented perspective or even as easily accessible everyday language.

In our ReN we will contribute to filling the gap mentioned not only by the sociolinguist Allan Bell, but also, among others, by Charles Bazerman (2008), in written communication and by Mathias Broth (2008), in media studies. Combining computer logging and ethnography from text production research, micro-macro perspectives from sociolinguistics and language teaching and training approaches from applied linguistics two of the future ReN participants (Daniel Perrin for the domain of journalism and Geert Jacobs for PR) began a series of increasingly complex field studies of professional text production in the mid-nineties: first local projects, then national, and finally those of European scope and framework. More and more researchers are now building on the research designs developed in these and other projects, not only for news production research, but also for investigating text production processes in domains such as translation, education, and academia. This experience of applying a process perspective to the linguistic analysis of media discourse is what we plan to develop further in an interdisciplinary framework and to take into the international community of applied linguistics.

We take the new brand of ‚media linguistics‘ described above to be the starting point for investigating socially relevant questions of language use such as how news comes into being. In our individual or joint publications, our conference panels, and other coordinated research activities, we will

• outline the main research questions and methods, explain how media linguistics can be related to other disciplines and identify the added value that it brings to applied linguistics, to related academic disciplines and to the professional field under investigation.
• develop research frameworks and questions for projects in which e.g. newswriting is investigated as a situated activity of language use and then related to psychobiography, social settings and cultural resources – to individual, organizational, and political empowerments and constraints.
• systematically present and discuss new scientific knowledge – and the transformation of this knowledge, i.e. the application of linguistic knowledge generated by investigating individual, collaborative and organizational text production processes in the sample domain of journalism.

To sum up, this ReN is meant to show that a) the question of Allan Bell’s “dearth of work” is currently being addressed, and b) applied linguistics is in pole position to fill “the gaps”.

Activities of the ReN Media Linguistics

• Joint research activities and endeavours which have already taken place
• AILA 2008 symposium, featuring Aleksandra and Daniel
• NT&T research network, featuring Geert, Tom, Ellen, Colleen and Daniel
• IPRA 2009 panel, featuring Tom, Daniel and Ellen
• ICA 2009 conference, featuring Daniel, Tom and Richard

The members of this ReN commit themselves to engaging in the following general activities in 2011-2014:

• providing an overview of and bringing together the field of media linguistics as a distinct research area within applied linguistics;
• documenting joint research activities in joint publications;
• ostering the multinational and multilingual potential of the network;
• encouraging new researchers to work in the field of media linguistics by promoting and supporting PhD studies and similar projects;
• holding joint symposia and conferences prior to AILA 2014;
• establishing the website www.lingua-media.net for information exchange and news publications in connection with the AILA website.

AILA Commitment

The members of this ReN commit themselves to filling a slot reserved for AILA Research Networks with a symposium at AILA 2014 and to bringing together the work of the three years in a joint proposal for a volume in the John Benjamins / AILA book series on the important aspects of this emerging field, to further establish it as a relevant area in AL.

Contact

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For activities of the ReN members see www.lingua-media.net

Regionalization

To make the work in research and practice of AILA members more visible during the time between the triennial AILA World Congresses, AILA pursues a strategy of regionalization that aims at establishing closer international cooperation among Applied Linguists from more or less neighbouring countries who are affiliated to AILA by fostering joint events, projects and publications in the respective region. While such a close cooperation has been established in North America between AAAL (USA) and CAAL (Canada) for a long time, cooperation in other areas of the world, such as Asia, Europe, Latin America or Africa could be more intense.

Therefore AILA encourages the setting up of self-organized regional networks as a basis for more intense cross-border cooperation.

Córdoba (Spain), 17th-19th October 2018

We would like to invite you to submit your contributions to the General Session of our conference on topics included in, or related to, the theme of this edition, “Cognitive linguistic  research in metonymy, metaphor, constructions and frames: Scope, models and methods”. However, AELCO/SCOLA’'s conferences aim to serve as a forum for discussion of any topic within the field of cognitive linguistics; therefore, we also invite proposals on other traditional topics in cognitive linguistics.

Our plenary speakers are:

  - Mario Brdar, Professor, University of Osijek (Croatia)

  - Günter Radden, Emeritus Professor, University of Hamburg (Germany)

  - Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Professor, University of La Rioja (Spain)

  - Leonard Talmy, Emeritus Professor, University of Buffalo, New York (U.S.A.)

Proposals will be written in any of the languages of the conference (English or Spanish) and sent in pdf format (maximum 500 words, including examples but excluding figures and references), no later than April 10th 2018. They should contain the following information:

  1) type of presentation; Oral or poster.

  2) title

  3) five keywords

  4) abstract (specifying  research questions,  methodology,  data and  expected  results)

The deadline to submit the abstracts of approved theme sessions has equally been extended to April 10, 2018.

* Please avoid including the names, affiliations or addresses of the authors of the presentation. For further important submission instructions please to go to:

Proposal submission

For more information on the Conference, please visit:

Bienvenido

REVISITING MULTICULTURALISM AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY

IN TODAY’S ACADEMIC COMMUNICATION

6 - 7 December, 2018

Warsaw, Poland

SPEAKERS WHO HAVE ALREADY CONFIRMED THEIR PARTICIPATION 

Prof. Ray Fabri, Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology, University of Malta, Malta 

Prof. Ken Hyland, University of East England, Norwich, England 

Prof. zw. dr hab. dr h.c. (multi) Franciszek Grucza, University of Social Sciences, Warsaw 

Prof. zw. dr hab. Piotr P. Chruszczewski, College for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Wroclaw 

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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 23rd September, 2018. Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by 7th October, 2018.

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). 

Please visit http://cocac.san.edu.pl/ for further information.

TIRF – The International Research Foundation for English Language Education – is pleased to announce its 2018 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 25, 2018.

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://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 2018 DDG competition.

Please write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you have any questions about this announcement, or visit the link above. 

Córdoba (Spain), 17th-19th October 2018

We would like to invite you to submit your contributions to the General Session of our conference on topics included in, or related to, the theme of this edition, “Cognitive linguistic  research in metonymy, metaphor, constructions and frames: Scope, models and methods”. However, AELCO/SCOLA’'s conferences aim to serve as a forum for discussion of any topic within the field of cognitive linguistics; therefore, we also invite proposals on other traditional topics in cognitive linguistics.

Our plenary speakers are:

  - Mario Brdar, Professor, University of Osijek (Croatia)

  - Günter Radden, Emeritus Professor, University of Hamburg (Germany)

  - Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Professor, University of La Rioja (Spain)

  - Leonard Talmy, Emeritus Professor, University of Buffalo, New York (U.S.A.)

Proposals will be written in any of the languages of the conference (English or Spanish) and sent in pdf format (maximum 500 words, including examples but excluding figures and references), no later than April 10th 2018. They should contain the following information:

  1) type of presentation; Oral or poster.

  2) title

  3) five keywords

  4) abstract (specifying  research questions,  methodology,  data and  expected  results)

The deadline to submit the abstracts of approved theme sessions has equally been extended to April 10, 2018.

* Please avoid including the names, affiliations or addresses of the authors of the presentation. For further important submission instructions please to go to:

Proposal submission

For more information on the Conference, please visit:

Bienvenido

REVISITING MULTICULTURALISM AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY

IN TODAY’S ACADEMIC COMMUNICATION

6 - 7 December, 2018

Warsaw, Poland

SPEAKERS WHO HAVE ALREADY CONFIRMED THEIR PARTICIPATION 

Prof. Ray Fabri, Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology, University of Malta, Malta 

Prof. Ken Hyland, University of East England, Norwich, England 

Prof. zw. dr hab. dr h.c. (multi) Franciszek Grucza, University of Social Sciences, Warsaw 

Prof. zw. dr hab. Piotr P. Chruszczewski, College for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Wroclaw 

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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 23rd September, 2018. Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by 7th October, 2018.

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). 

Please visit http://cocac.san.edu.pl/ for further information.

TIRF – The International Research Foundation for English Language Education – is pleased to announce its 2018 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 25, 2018.

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://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 2018 DDG competition.

Please write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you have any questions about this announcement, or visit the link above. 

AILA Review

AILA Review is the official scholarly journal of AILA. Its first issue appeared in 1984, and from 1989, all volumes are guest-edited and thematically oriented. They include original unpublished contributions dealing with topics relevant to the scope of Applied Linguistics.

Up to Volume 16, the journal was published by AILA itself. From Volume 16 onwards, AILA Review is published by John Benjamins.

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Editorial Board

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Editorial Board

Limin Jin, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China

Barbara Seidlhofer, University of Vienna, Austria

Rosa Manchon, University of Murcia, Spain

Branca Falabella Fabricio, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil