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The 16th AILA World Congress

Harmony in Diversity: Language, Culture, Society

August  23-28, 2011, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China

AILA 2011 invites proposals for presentations that are related to policy, research, and theory in any area of applied linguistics. Proposals may be for individual papers, posters, symposia or workshops. Please note: the deadline was May 15, 2010.

For managing your submission, please click here. For congress information and registration, please click here.

Confirmed Plenary Speakers

Allan Bell (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
Malcolm Coulthard (University of Aston, UK)
Gu Yueguo (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences & Beijing Foreign Studies University, China)
Diane Larsen-Freeman (University of Michigan, USA)
Barbara Seidlhofer (University of Vienna, Austria)

Convenors of Invited Symposia

Patricia Duff (University of British Columbia): Multilingualism and language policy
Gao Yihong (Peking University): Language, identity and globalization
Nkonko Kamwangamalu (Howard University) & Gary Barkhuizen (University of Auckland): Migration, language maintenance and shift: multiple perspectives
Françoise Salager-Meyer (University of Los Andes): Languages for specific purposes
Elana Shohamy (Tel Aviv University): Language testing
Marjolijn Verspoor & Kees de Bot (University of Groningen): Dynamic systems theory and second language development

 

Linguistic Society of America

Call for Papers

The Linguistic Society of America invites to their 85th Annual Meeting on January 6-9, 2011 in Pittsburgh Hilton, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Abstract submission is open from June 1 - July 30, 2010 on the conference website at http://www.lsadc.org/info/meet-annual.cf.