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Handbooks of Applied Linguistics [HAL]

Communication Competence. Language and Communication Problems. Practical Solutions

 

Past Congresses

To document the development of the field, this page contains a list of past congresses. According to availability, we are trying to present information on dates and venue, main topics, and publications. To supplement these in part only fragmentary data, readers are kindly invited to provide the AILA Secretariat with any additional information on the respective congress.

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

Currently no further information available!

12th AILA World Congress

1.-6. August 1999, Tokyo, Japan

The Roles of Language in the 21st 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

Currently no further information available!

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. PĂ©dagogie des Langues Vivantes
  • III. La Coordination des Recherches dans le Domaine EuropĂ©en