British Association of Applied Linguistics – BAAL

BAAL 2025 will be hosted by the University of Glasgow on the 4th, 5th and 6th September 2024. The conference theme is Applied linguistics in the face of global challenges and local needs, inviting scholars to reflect on the role of applied linguistics in the changing world, with fast technological advances and more interconnected societies on the one hand and challenges, such as the climate crisis or the rise of isolationistic politics worldwide, on the other. The theme is an opportunity for scholars to consider the implications of the changing conditions on individuals and communities. BAAL encourages submissions that engage with a range of applied linguistic issues and a variety of social and professional contexts.

Keynote speakers are:

  • Dr Lucy Jones
  • Dr Spencer Hazel
  • Dr Kamran Khan
  • Professor Angel Lin

Abstracts can be submitted for:

  • Poster presentations
  • Individual presentations for parallel sessions (25 minutes including questions)
  • Individual presentations for a Special Interest Group (SIG) track (25 minutes including questions)
  • Proposed Colloquia (120 minutes)

Deadline for receipt of Abstracts: 31 March 2025, 11.59pm UK time

To submit your abstract for individual presentations (300 words maximum), please use Oxford Abstracts using the following link:

If it is your first time to use Oxford Abstracts, please note that you will need to register to submit your abstract.

If you would like to propose a colloquium, please submit your proposal to the conference email address (baal2025@glasgow.ac.uk) by the same deadline. There is no fixed format for colloquia, and BAAL encourages organisers to think how to best use the allotted time. The colloquium slot may consist of thematically related conventional presentations, shorter flash-talks, discussion sessions. Please only submit one abstract (500 words) per colloquium.

BAAL Currently has 21 Special Interest Groups (SIGS):

  • Asian Language Education in Global Contexts
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Health and Science Communication
  • Humans, Machines, Language (HuMaLa)
  • Intercultural communication
  • Language and Education for Social Justice (LESJ)
  • Language and New Media
  • Language and Race
  •  Language Curriculum
  • Language in Africa
  • Language Policy
  • Language, Gender and Sexuality
  • Language, Learning and Teaching
  • LEF (Linguistic Ethnography Forum)
  • LKALE (Linguistics and Knowledge about Language in Education)
  • Multilingualism
  • Literacies (formerly PAWBL Professional, Academic and Work-based Literacies)
  • Research Involving Children
  • Research Synthesis in Applied Linguistics
  • Social Justice for Language Education
  • Testing, Evaluation and Assessment (TEA)
  • Vocabulary

If you have any queries, please contact the Local Organising Committee: baal2025@glasgow.ac.uk

Conference website here

Notifications of submission outcomes by 5 May

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