Mission & Activities

Mission and activities

AILA pursues the following objectives:

• Actively contributing to the development of all subject areas of applied linguistics
• Promoting the exchange of scientific knowledge and practical experience
• Stimulating international cooperation
• Fostering language pluralism
• Supporting applied linguistics in developing countries

AILA pursues these objectives by means of the following:

• Hold a triennial world congress
• Establish and support Research Networks (ReNs)
• Promote the dissemination of scientific information by a variety of  publications: a scholarly journal, a book series and a newsletter.
• Collaborate with other organizations with related objectives and goals
• Making available Solidarity Awards to support the attendance of academics from developing countries at the World Congress