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.
Ben Rampton said about InJAL that it “plays an important role in fostering creative interdisciplinarity within high quality applied linguistic research.” Nikolas Coupland considered InJAL “best placed to promote a revitalised, more open and more self-aware Applied Linguistics”. And Henry Widdowson termed InJAL an “excellent journal”, adding that its “scholarly content is of a consistently high quality, and it engages with current issues in applied linguistics in a very effective way, not only by publishing papers by key people in the field, but by encouraging critical debate […]. No other journal has brought these contemporary and contentious issues so strikingly into the open.”
After co-editing the journal for more than a decade, Daniel Perrin would like to hand over the baton such that a new editor gets a chance to work for this renowned journal. Experienced colleagues in the field are encouraged to contact Dr. Hannah Reed, Associate Journal Publishing Manager:
Join us for the conference "Academia on Screen: The World of Higher Education in Film and TV Series Across Cultures" on March 20 & 21, 2025, at the University of Passau!
We are excited to announce that the call for papers is now open. Submit your abstracts and contribute to a vibrant discussion on the portrayal of higher education in film and TV series across different cultures.
We look forward to welcoming you to this engaging event.
Warm regards,
Prof. Dr. Daniela Wawra and Prof. Dr. Lucia Krämer
English Language and Cultural Studies / English Cultural and Media Studies
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Multilingual Theories and Practices (MTP) is to be held at Dublin City University, Ireland from 23 to 24 April 2020.
Confirmed keynote speakers are: Nancy Hornberger (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Ulrike Jessner-Schmid (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Mila Schwartz (Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel)
The conference website: https://mtpdublin.home.blog
This questionnaire is part of an exploratory project investigating the topic of publishing multilingual research in applied linguistics journals. We are a team of international researchers conducting this research independently and hope to publish the findings in due course.
The link above will take respondents to an online questionnaire, via an information and consent form.
Eligible research participants: Anyone who has attempted to publish multilingual research in the field of applied linguistics (including language teaching). Please also feel free to complete the survey yourself if you deem yourself eligible.
The questionnaire is in English, but respondents are invited to respond in text fields in any of the following languages: Arabic, English, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish. Participation in this research is voluntary. Data will be stored securely and deleted upon completion of the research. Respondents will remain fully anonymous.
Feel free to share via email, online platforms, social media, etc. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to let us know by replying to this email address. Many thanks.
The 25th International Congress of the Italian Association of Applied Linguistics will take place on February19-21, 2025 at the University of Macerata.
The special issue of theEuropean Journal of Applied Linguistics
This special issue of the European Journal of Applied Linguistics (Miras, 2026 (Ed.)) explores the evolution and identity of European Applied Linguistics through the contributions of emerging scholars who participated in recent AILA Europe Junior Researchers' Meetings (JRM). This is the second special issue published by AILA-Europe (Gnach & Miras, 2022 (Eds.)). The volume reflects on the discipline's historical development in Europe and examines how early-career researchers are shaping a distinct European identity in the field. It builds on previous editions of the JRM, including those held in Belfast (2022), and Lyon (2023). The editorial of this issue exclusively presents the results of two survey conducted two decades apart by Karlfried Knapp, which has been updated to compare with more recent data. This work, spanning past and present, offers a reflection on AILA-Europe's position within AILA.
This issue brings together ten scientific contributions, most of which are long papers. It features research conducted across Europe – including Germany, Estonia, Italy, France, Ireland, Finland, Greece, and the United Kingdom – as well as from Tunisia and the USA. All contributions come from Early Career Researchers (ECRs) who critically engage with topics in applied linguistics related to European languages or linguistic practices in European contexts.
AILA 2020 introduces a new format! There will be more than 200 symposia to choose from. All the papers will be submitted to one of these symposia. Presentation formats within each symposium include:
Featured multimodal presentations: 30 minutes of a ppt presentation, 10 minutes for discussion. These will take place at the beginning of each half-day slot and will set the tone for the symposium. You must have been explicitly invited by the symposium organiser(s) to submit to this format.
Standard multimodal presentations: What we are most used to seeing at conferences: 12-20 minute presentations with a ppt. The exact amount of time for each of these presentations is up to the symposium organizers and depends on the number of abstracts accepted.
Focused multimodal presentations: The most innovative presentations at AILA 2020! In pitches of 2-5 minutes, speakers advertise the presentations that take place over lunch in the dedicated focused presentation space where the symposia attendants meet. Additionally, these presenters will have the opportunity to upload a full 12-minute version of their paper (video/audio ppt) to the AILA website where it will stay for a full year after presenting at AILA 2020.
The symposia chairs’ key task will be to foreground the interconnections between the presentations of all formats. By doing so, they ensure that each symposium is much more than the sum of its parts: an opportunity to thoroughly discuss research at different stages of projects and academic trajectories in the field. The call for papers will be published in mid-July 2019.
For more information visit the event news https://aila.info/2019/03/21/19th-aila-world-congress/
or the official homepage of the AILA 2020 congress https://www.aila2020.nl/
We are pleased to announce that, due to popular demand, we have extended the Call for Papers deadline by two weeks for the Call of Papers for the 11th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE), to be held from 3rd to 5th July 2026 in Austria, at the University of Klagenfurt.
For over two decades, the BICLCE conference series has been a forum for researchers who are interested in the linguistics of contemporary English. It is open to different theoretical and methodological perspectives. Previous conferences were held in Edinburgh (2005), Toulouse (2007), London (2009), Osnabrück (2011), Austin TX (2013), Madison WI (2015), Vigo (2017), Bamberg (2019), Ljubljana (2022) and Alicante (2024). BICLCE 2026 wishes to continue this long-standing tradition of exploring contemporary English.
We are pleased to announce the following keynote speakers: Daniel Davis, Maria Kuteeva, Marc Xu, Barbara Seidlhofer, and José Fajardo.
This time, BICLCE11 comes with an additional thematic focus on “English in a geopolitically changing world”, motivated by the major changes the world has experienced in the last several years which may potentially influence how English is used and perceived internationally. Therefore, we are happy to invite researchers to submit proposals addressing this topic in particular. Beyond this special theme, contributions related to English are also welcome in any of the following fields/areas: syntax, morphology, sociolinguistics, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics, phonetics/phonology, applied linguistics, and more.
We invite proposals for contributions to the conference, either for the General Sessionsor for one of seven Thematic Sessions:
For all sessions, we invite proposals for individual papers consisting of a 20-minute presentation followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
Abstracts should clearly indicate the theoretical framework, the research question(s), elaborate data and methodology and discuss (expected) findings. The abstract should not exceed 300 words (excluding references). The abstract should be adapted to the Chicago Manual of Style (18th edition), and be anonymized before its submission as they will undergo anonymous peer-review.
The abstracts should be submitted electronically and as either docx or pdf files, using the following template: https://conference3.aau.at/event/156/attachments/116/305/Template_BICLCE11.docx.
The author(s) should submit their abstract via https://conference3.aau.at/event/156/abstracts/.
The EXTENDED deadline is January 31st, 2026. Notifications will be sent out by 15th March.
Please forward this information to your colleagues, students and interested parties.
We look forward to welcoming you in Klagenfurt!
All the very best,
Nikola, for the BICLCE11 organization team
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Call for Papers - Special Issue Winter 2027
Guest editors:
Ibtissem Knouzi, York University
Penny Kinnear, OISE - University of Toronto
Merrill Swain, OISE - University of Toronto
Proposal deadline: February 01, 2026
Full paper deadline: June 15, 2026
Vygotskian sociocultural theory: Transforming L2 teaching, learning, assessment, and research
Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory (V-SCT), as a theory of mind, has had a major impact on second language (L2) theory and practice over the last four decades. It has challenged L2 educators' understanding of the genesis of L2 development and effective pedagogy through a set of principles (see Swain, Kinnear & Steinman (2015) for a comprehensive and accessible review) such as the central role of interpsychological mediation, and the focus on conceptbased teaching and curriculum design. However, as L2 educators and researchers, often trained in cognitivist paradigms, redefine their roles and attempt to reconcile previous practices and beliefs with new concepts, many confusions persist (Knouzi, in press). These confusions exist especially with respect to key concepts such as ZPD vs. i+1; mediation vs. scaffolding; role of concept-based language instruction in form-focused instruction; role of affect vs. positive psychology; and Dynamic Assessment vs. proficiency testing.
This special issue seeks to explain key V-SCT concepts and demonstrate their relevance to L2 theory and practice in Canadian contexts, as demonstrated by Canadian scholars through conceptual papers and empirical studies.
We invite submissions that examine and critique L2 development, teaching, and assessment practices, and teacher education from a V-SCT perspective, addressing topics such as, but not limited to, the following:
- Role of mediation in learning and development, focusing on the range, affordances, and constraints of mediational means (including digital and multimodal) in L2 language classrooms.
- Role of language as a cognitive tool (e.g., languaging, collaborative dialogue, instructional interactions)
- Concept-based instruction in L2 classrooms and in teacher education programs - Dialectic relation between affect and cognition
- Assessment
- Activity theory-informed analysis of learner/teacher development
Papers in English and French will be considered. We welcome papers for inclusion in one of three sections: “Full-Length Research Articles” (original research), “Perspectives” (theoretical explorations of relevant issues), and “In the Classroom” (pedagogical focus). Please refer to the TESL Canada Journal author guidelines for more information:
Interested authors are invited to submit a 400-word abstract (including references) to by February 01, 2026. Please indicate clearly the category to which your abstract belongs. Notice of abstract acceptance will be emailed by March 01, 2026. Full manuscripts are due June 15, 2026, and will be subject to a rigorous blind review process. In line with SCT principles, we will follow a process that fosters collegial mediation and creates opportunities for scholarly development. In a two-phase process, each contributor will be asked to review a paper in the special issue (blind review). Following the first revisions and resubmission, all contributors will have the option to receive additional feedback through discussion at a meeting attended by SCT colleagues before submitting a final version. The special issue will be published in January-March, 2027.
If you have any questions or queries about this special issue, please contact Ibtissem Knouzi at
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The UNICollaboration organisation is organising an international research conference on the theme of “Virtual Exchange in a Changing World: Innovation and Inclusion”. Our 2026 theme acknowledges the transformative power of digital connectivity and collaborative learning in times of global complexity.
The conference will take place on June 4-5, 2026 at the Cyprus University of Technology in Limassol, Cyprus and welcomes presentations, workshops, panel discussions and posters that include both research studies and practical reports.
The deadline for submission is 15 November 2025. Details can be found in the Call for Papers HERE and the link to submit abstracts can be found on the conference website HERE.
If you have specific questions about conference logistics or travel issues, you can contact the organizers at their email address: ; or directly to ;
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The Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA) and the Organizing Committee of this edition are pleased to invite you to the 43rd International Conference of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics, organized by the Department of Spanish Language at the University of Granada. The conference will be held in Granada from April 15 to 17, 2026, at the School of Civil, Canal, and Port Engineering.
With the topic: ‘Language, variation and identity: linguistic dynamics for representing identity’, we want the conference to become a space for dialogue where we can reflect on how language reflects and shapes social reality and how speakers use linguistic resources to represent their identity.
The AESLA 2026 Organising Committee encourages you to participate in the conference by submitting a proposal for an oral presentation or a poster.
We remind you that each participant may submit up to two proposals, in Spanish and English, from 15 October 2025 to 20 December 2025. Proposals should be submitted via the web platform: https://matrix.aesla.org.es/aesla2026, and will be assigned to the thematic panel chosen for review (each proposal may only be submitted to one panel).
For more detailed information about the AESLA 2026 conference, please visit our website: https://wpd.ugr.es/~aesla26/
If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact us at the following email address:
We look forward to seeing you in Granada!
Elena Fernández de Molina Ortés, Rocío Cruz Ortiz and Edyta Waluch de la Torre
Coordinators of the Organising Committee for the AESLA 2026 Conference
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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.
22th World Congress Vancouver 2027 August 9-13, 2027 Vancouver, Canada
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21st World Congress Kuala Lumpur 2024 August 11-16, 2024 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The conference considers all aspects of the linguistic and sociolinguistic competences and practices of bi-/multilingual speakers who cross existing social and linguistic boundaries, adopting or adapting themselves to new and overlapping linguistic spaces.
We invite papers in all areas of research in bi-/multilingualism, whether or not linked directly to the overarching conference theme, including, but not limited to, linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, clinical linguistics, education, bi-/multilingual societies.
Topics will include: (multiple) language acquisition and learning (L3, L4, Lx); psycho- and neurolinguistics of multilingualism; translanguaging; early bilingualism and heritage language development; speech processing in bi-/multilinguals; trans/multilingual language use in different contexts; multilingual education; bi-/multiculturalism; bi-/multilingual language policies; literacy in multiple languages (pluriliteracy); intercultural and globalisation issues related to multilingualism; multilingual issues in literature and translation.
Confirmed speakers are:
Prof. Enlli Thomas (Bangor University, Wales, UK) Prof. Julia Festman (Pedagogical University Tyrol, Austria) Prof. Antoinette Camilleri Grima (University of Malta)
Conference venue:
University of Malta, Valletta Campus, St Paul Street VLT 1216, Malta
More information on the venue is to be found here:
https://www.um.edu.mt/icp
The two categories of proposals are: individual papers and posters. Submission is already open and will close on 1 June 2018. Presenters are requested to submit their abstracts of up to 300 words and include their name, affiliation and email address in the MS-Word documents. All proposals should be sent to:
More information to be found:
https://meldc18.wordpress.com
All presenters will be invited to submit their full papers for publication by April 2019. Selected papers will be published in a newly established journal “Journal of Bilingual Education” http://jbe.uw.edu.pl
Metadiscourse in Digital Communication: What has changed?
June 27-29, 2019
University of Bergamo, Italy
We are pleased to announce that the 2nd Metadiscourse Across Genres Conference (MAG2019) will be hosted by CERLIS, the research centre on specialized discourse operating at the University of Bergamo, between 27-29 June 2019 with the participation of
Annelie Adel (Dalarna University, Sweden),
Maria Kuteeva (Stockholm University, Sweden),
Anna Mauranen (University of Helsinki, Finland),
Carmen Sancho Guinda (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain).
This international conference aims to disseminate current research work on Metadiscourse and related areas in line with various qualitative and quantitative approaches with special focuses on Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, Genre Analysis.
Title: Metadiscourse in Digital Communication: What has changed?
The advent of digital and social media has deeply transformed academic and non-academic communication practices in the past two decades. Along with the linguistic practices in which people engage and the nature of the social networks they construct, there is a strong and growing interest in how people create meaning not just through language, but through a range of digital resources. In fact, the communicative immediacy of digital media and the spectrum of genres/hybridized forms now available has inevitably influenced the way we communicate and the way we create meaning-making in a multimodal environment. Underpinning this innovative work is current research work on Metadiscourse and the development of new research methodologies, including visual research methods and combinations of qualitative and quantitative approaches with special focuses on Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, and Genre Analysis. Given the growing interest in digital language research, this international conference thus investigates the change that digital communication has meant to communication environments - and what research methods and approaches are needed to capture that change.
Conference themes
Abstracts and presentations should reflect at least one of the following:
Metadiscourse analysis of digital academic and non-academic interpersonal interactions
New approaches, research methods to Metadiscourse digital language research across genres, disciplines and languages
Metadiscourse and multimedia / multimodal communication
Synchronic / Diachronic perspectives on Metadiscourse in Digital Communication
Please send your abstract (300 words) to
Deadlines to remember
Submission of abstracts: 10th January 2019
Notification of acceptance: 31st January 2019
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AILA Ibero-America will be formally launched in August of 2020 as the regional network including AILA affiliates in Ibero-American-speaking regions. Its abbreviation reads AIALA in both Spanish – Asociación Iberoamericana de Lingüística Aplicada – and Portuguese: Associação Ibero-Americana de Linguística Aplicada.
AIALA’s formation was inspired by the need to reflect the rich linguistic diversity in the world within the global organization of AILA, and current events that have demonstrated the critical importance for global collaboration and multilingual perspectives in all areas of science, including and especially in applied linguistics. In creating AIALA, AILA broadens the concept of “regional” membership in terms of Spanish, Portuguese, and affiliated minority and indigenous language(s) spoken and researched by applied linguists around the world, regardless of current physical residence/geographical location.
AILA’s Ibero-American Association of Applied Linguistics (AIALA), is a collaboration between AAAL (USA), ALAB (Brazil), AMLA (Mexico), and AESLA (Spain), with additional opportunity for membership by AILA members-at-large where there are (yet) no national affiliates, including but not limited to Portugal, Argentina, Colombia, and Chile. In presentations both at the AILA 2021 World Congress and at AILA national affiliates’ congresses such as AAAL 2021, the founding team will present and discuss the formative process in creating this regional organization, the events planned for the inaugural year, ways to get involved, and their vision for this organization that will support and amplify Spanish, Portuguese, and affiliated minority languages, both in terms of applied linguistics research foci and in terms of supporting applied linguists who speak and research these languages worldwide.
Moreover, the presentation is meant to demonstrate how AIALA learned from the existing AILA regional organizations, as well as professional organizations supporting Spanish, Portuguese, and affiliated minority and indigenous languages, in hopes of maximizing participation and benefit to all involved, and all whom AILA serves. The work in AIALA, as with all of the AILA regional organizations is aimed towards the common goal of demonstrating how multilingual perspectives in applied linguistics research will always offer a more complete view of and service to all languages and speakers, and the conviction that the increasing viewpoints with which one can engage, the more inclusive and progressive the world will be.
Contact:
Laura Gurzynski-Weiss (), Kyria Finardi ()
Thursday, December 16 at 5 p.m. GMT @ ilab:learn, Room B83, King George VI Building, Newcastle University.
This is a hybridevent* with both in-person** and online attendance (via zoom) available.
On behalf of Newcastle University and VEO Group, Professor Paul Seedhouse invites you to join us as we celebrate the launch of our latest book: Video Enhanced Observation for Language Teaching: Reflection and Professional Development.
* Tickets are free, although places to attend in person are limited. Please book early to avoid disappointment.
** This event follows Newcastle University's COVID procedures, so please bring a face mask to wear when needed.
Discussing digital technology in teaching and learning settings, Video Enhanced Observation for Language Teaching researches how the VEO app can be used to tag, analyse and evaluate talk, and its use as the basis for reflection and professional development.
In this exclusive launch event, we celebrate all those who helped to make this book happen. Including lecturers from Newcastle University, the VEO team, and teachers and academics from across the world.
Developed in Newcastle University's School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, VEO was the first ever HASS Faculty spin-off company in 2015 and now has clients in over 30 countries across the globe.
Agenda:
5:00 - 5:10pm - Welcome drinks and canapés 5:10 - 5:15pm - An introduction and greeting from editor Professor Paul Seedhouse 5:15 - 5:20pm - An opening by Professor Nigel Harkness, Pro-Vice Chancellor for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) 5:20 - 6:00pm - A selection of Guest Speakers incl. Paul Miller (VEO), Jon Haines (Newcastle University), plus chapter authors and academics
The great interest regarding this book and the fact that a number of colleagues asked more time to do research due to COVID restrictions, led us to the decision to renew this present call for papers. We invite you, therefore, to submit abstracts for chapters to be included in our edited book titled ‘CLIL-ing through board games. Challenge accepted!’ which is likely to be published by De Gruyter Mouton.
The new-age board gaming dominance started with the famous Catan, which marked the shift from the old and traditional board games, like Monopoly, Taboo, Hotel, Risk, Trivial Pursuit. Modern board games reduce or negate the “luck factor”, include the cooperation mode, and are easily adjustable for educational and research purposes covering a wide range of scientific areas and disciplines. All genres of modern board games are language independent (a game without text) or language dependent (a game with texts). Both are ideal for language teaching and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and they are in line with the current tenets of foreign language pedagogy.
Authors interested in submitting a chapter related to CLIL and board games (physical or digital board games) should send to Dr Thomai Alexiou at by 30/5/2021:
a) an extended abstract(of between 300 and 500 words, excluding references)
b) a list of 4-6 keywordsthat describe their intended paper
The topics of interest include:
Board games in education (physical or digital)
CLIL and board games
Multilingualism and board games
Board games and materials development
Alternative Assessment, CLIL and board games
Skills, CLIL and board games
Timeline
30/5/2021: Abstract/keyword submission.
30/6/2021: Decision on abstract (acceptance/rejection) and invitation to submit manuscript. Invitation to submit full paper (guidelines will be included at this point)
31/12/2021: Paper submission (4,500 – 6,000 words excluding references)
30/2/2022: Editors’ review of submitted paper.
1/4/2022: Submission of revised paper.
30/5/2022: Guest Editors’ final review of revised paper.
TIRF – The International Research Foundation for English Language Education – is pleased to announce its 2019 Doctoral Dissertation Grants (DDG) competition. Grants of up to US $5,000 will be made to successful applicants investigating a range of topics in English language education. The application deadline is Wednesday, April 24, 2019.
There are two types of grants offered through TIRF’s DDG program. Information about the two types of grants, as well as eligibility concerns, resource videos, answers to frequently asked questions, and much more can be found at: https://protect2.fireeye.com/url?k=099ad3a4-55bc3bb7-099ee0ab-000babd906fc-562649b75f6cf8b5&u=https://www.tirfonline.org/research-grants/doctoral-dissertation-grants/
TIRF and its Trustees are grateful to be working in partnership with Cambridge Assessment English and the British Council, as well as individual donors, in support of the 2019 DDG competition.
Please write to if you have any questions about this announcement, or visit the link above. Many thanks in advance!
Call for Papers | AILA World Congress | Groningen | August 15–20, 2021 | AILA Research Network on Media Linguistics
If research wishes to both describe and explain real-life activities, it needs to ask both what- and why-questions. These questions can be answered by combining complementary, etic and emic, perspectives. Whereas outsiders’ (etic) perspectives tend to capture observable activities, insiders’ (emic) perspectives foreground practitioners’ sense-making practices.
Conventionally, emic data sets have been gathered through interviews. This entails a methodological problem: Exploring routinized processes by asking general questions is as if the researcher was outsourcing the task of generalisation to the informant. However, informants cannot be expected to apply methodological rigour when explaining why they actually do what they do. To mitigate this inherent dilemma of emic perspectives, real-life research can be supported by etic data.
In our symposium, we welcome contributions discussing the interplay of researcher-analysts’ etic and practitioner-informants’ emic perspectives, as well as the challenges of integrating them. Besides theoretical discussions, the symposium presents illustrative solutions from the field of media linguistics. By doing so, the contributions highlight the value of methodologically integrative approaches, despite their demanding nature – especially when it comes to investigating new phenomena such as language users’ appropriation of the most recent dynamics in digital media.
Please check the conference website for presentation formats and submit your proposal by September 16:
GENRES AND LANGUAGES IN DIGITAL COMMUNICATION
Trends and new directions
Joint AELFE-LSPPC Conference 28-30th June 2023, Zaragoza (Spain)
CALL FOR PAPERS
This joint AELFE-LSPPC Conference brings together the 21st annual conference of the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes (AELFE2023) and the 7th Conference of the Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association (LSPPC7). Both associations promote the use of languages for specific purposes and professional communication. The main goal of this joint conference is to create a meeting point for scholars (researchers and practitioners) and allow them to discuss and exchange their views on the conference theme with participants from different world regions and do so from multi- and inter-disciplinary perspectives.
Conference description
In a networked era, we are witnessing rapidly changing, web-mediated communication practices involving a variety of communicative purposes, audiences, modes and media. Emerging trends in disciplinary knowledge communication such as the Open Science paradigm attest to this fact. Academic and professional communication today thus poses important theoretical, methodological and pedagogical challenges that need addressing. Some of the questions that we aim to address are: What is the role of LSP teaching and research in an increasingly interconnected world? What methods and frameworks are suitable to investigate multilingual and multimodal communication online? How can practitioners support emerging digital communication needs in the professions? How can they best prepare future graduates and professionals to disseminate their work in digital environments?, and how can LSP research and practice help them develop the necessary literacies (academic, plurilingual and digital literacies)?
Strands of research
We welcome submissions on all aspects of LSP communication in relation to the AELFE thematic panels, but contributions addressing the specific theme of the conference are particularly encouraged.
Specifically, we invite proposals in broader areas such as discourse and communication, genre analysis, genres and registers, genres and multimodality, translation studies, multilingualism, languaging and translanguaging, crosscultural and intercultural discourses, academic literacy development, acquisition of professional competence in the workplace, digital literacies, technologies for education, quality assurance in LSP teaching/learning, pedagogies for professional development and LSP teacher professional development.
Other topics in LSP and Professional Communication are also welcome.
Plenary speakers
Christine B. Feak (University of Michigan, US)
Eric Friginal (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Laura M. Muresan (Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania)
Christine Tardy (Northern Arizona University, US)
Featured speakers
Vijay K. Bhatia (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
John M. Swales (University of Michigan, US)
Thematic panels
The conference also includes the following thematic panels featuring presentations on the same topic so that there is room for more focused discussion on the topic.
Digital science: Sustainable, transformative and transversal
Multimodality in professional communication
Publish or perish: insights from a high stakes journal (pending confirmation)
Submission of abstracts
All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the scientific committee, and proposals related to the AELFE panels will be evaluated by the panel coordinators. This will be followed by a notification of acceptance or request for revision.
The required format for submissions is an abstract of 300 words (excluding references), preferably in Word format. For references please follow the APA Citation Style (7TH edition). Abstracts should include a brief outline of the research/project context and clearly indicate the objectives, method(s) and results. They should be written in the language in which the presentation will be delivered.
Language policy: the conference languages are English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
Presentation Policy: given that the organising committee believes that conferences should provide opportunities for professional exchange, i.e., giving and receiving feedback, and meeting colleagues with similar interests, we encourage discussions following each paper presentation and also require that papers should be presented only by their authors. Non-author substitute presenters will not be allowed to present papers.
To aim at diversity, we accept only one paper presentation per author.
Scientific committee
William Feng (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Helen Basturkmen (The University of Auckland) Gu Yueguo (The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) Azirah Hashim (Universiti Malaya) Kevin Knight (Kanda University of International Studies)
Sue Starfield (University of New South Wales)
Panel coordinators
AELFE panel coordinators: (in charge of assessing the proposals) Pascual Pérez Paredes (University of Cambridge) – Corpus Linguistics Purificación Sánchez Hernández (Universidad de Murcia) – Corpus Linguistics Begoña Bellés Fortuño (Universitat Jaume I, Castellón) – Genre and Discourse Ana Bocanegra Valle (Universidad de Cádiz) – Genre and Discourse Araceli Losey León (Universidad de Cádiz) – Terminology Elena Carpi (Università di Pisa) – Terminology Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares) – Translation and Interpretation Mª Mar Sánchez Ramos (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares) – Translation and Interpretation Lourdes Pomposo Yanes (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) – Innovation and digital technologies in LSP Cristina Calle Martínez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) – Innovation and digital technologies in LSP María Luisa Carrió Pastor (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia) – Teaching methodologies and CLIL/EMI
Guzmán Mancho Barés (Universitat de Lleida) – Teaching methodologies and CLIL/EMI
Organising committee
Local organising committee: Carmen Pérez-Llantada (University of Zaragoza) María José Luzón (University of Zaragoza) Ignacio Guillén-Galve (University of Zaragoza) Oana Maria Carciu (University of Zaragoza) Rosana Villares (University of Zaragoza) Concepción Orna (University of Zaragoza) Miguel A. Vela-Tafalla (University of Zaragoza) M Ángeles Velilla (University of Zaragoza) Sofía Albero (University of Zaragoza) Alberto Vela (University of Zaragoza) Ana Cristina Vivas (U of Zaragoza)
Alfonso Ollero (University of Zaragoza)
From LSPPC: Christoph Hafner (City University of Hong Kong)
Becky Kwan (City University of Hong Kong)
Conference venue
Edificio Ibercaja Patio de la Infanta (Centro de Congresos)(https://www.fundacionibercaja.es/centros/ibercaja-patio-de-lainfanta/), Zaragoza 50007, Spain
About Zaragoza
Zaragoza is a privileged location in Spain. It is approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes by train from Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao. It is also just a 2-hour trip to the beautiful Mediterranean Sea, and approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes from the Pyrenees, an impressive mountain chain in the border between Spain and France (south Western Europe).
Conference registration
Early bird registration from January 15th until April 1st, 2023: 200 EUR (AELFE or LSPPC member)
230 EUR (non AELFE or LSPPC member)
Registration from April 2nd until June 15th, 2023: 230 EUR (AELFE or LSPPC member)
270 EUR (non AELFE or LSPPC member)
The same fees apply for both presenters and participants.
IMPORTANT: Payment should be made by bank transfer. Please clearly indicate the participant's name and add “AELFE-LSPPC 2023 Registration”.
Confirmation of bank transfer should be attached to the registration form. The AELFE-LSPPC 2023 organisers will not be responsible for tracking transfers deposited without appropriate identification.
Participants (and not the organisation) will be responsible for any bank transfer charges.
Bank details:
Bank Account number: 2085 0111 7903 3141 0703 Bank: IBERCAJA Bank address: Pº Fernando el Católico, 35 - 50006 Zaragoza (Spain) IBAN: ES12 2085 0111 7903 3141 0703 BIC: CAZRES2Z Beneficiary name: Universidad de Zaragoza
Beneficiary address: c/ Pedro Cerbuna 12, 50009 Zaragoza (Spain)
Please fill in the registration form. A scanned copy of the payment receipt must be sent to the organisers, to be uploaded on online registration form. Registration will only be complete once proof of payment has been provided.
If you require an invoice, please include your invoicing details in the registration form.
All participants must register in order to appear in the conference programme and to receive a certificate of participation.
Cancellation policy: No refunds will be possible if participants cancel their participation at the conference.
Attendance to pre-conference workshops (to be announced) sponsored by the Digital Genres and Open Science group at the University of Zaragoza, scheduled for 28th June (morning), will be free for all conference participants and attendants.
A conference dinner is also planned on 29th June (restaurant Teatro Principal, TBC). If you wish to attend dinner, you can indicate so in the registration form. Do not make payment for the dinner during registration.
Specific instructions will be given regarding the workshops and the dinner when closer to the conference dates.
Important dates
Deadline for abstracts: January 15th, 2023 Notification of acceptance: January 30th, 2023 Registration starts: January 30th, 2023 Deadline for early bird registration: March 30th, 2023
Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems
Digital genres and Open Science research group (GENCI research group) (project code PID2019-105655RB-I00 MCIN/AEI 10.13039/501100011033) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Spanish Agency for Research
University of Zaragoza, Vice-rectorate of Research
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