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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.

15) 2008: 24.-29., August, GAL, Essen, Germany

Topic

Multilingualism: Challenges and Opportunities

For more information see http://www.aila2008.org/.

14) 2005: 25.-29., July, AAAL, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Topic

The future is now!

The congress website is no longer available. You may still find some information via the "Wayback Machine" of archive.org.

13) 2002: 16.-21. December, Singapore

Currently no further information available!

12) 1999: 1.-6. August, Tokyo, Japan

Topic

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.

11) 1996: August, Jyväskylä, Finland

Currently no further information available!

10) 1993: 8.-14. August, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Publications

Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (ed.) (1995): Multilingualism for all. Swets & Zeitlinger Lisse.

9) 1990: Halkidiki, Greece

Currently no further information available!

8) 1987: 16.-21. August, 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.

7) 1984: 5.-10. August, University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

Topic

The Contribution of Applied Linguistics to International Understanding

Publications

Den Haese, Jan & Nivette, Jos (eds.) (1984): AILA Brussels 84. Proceedings. Volume 1-4.

6) 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.

5) 1978: 20.-26. August, 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.

4) 1975: 25.-30. August, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Publications

Abstracts: Stuttgart, 25th-30th August/ International Congress of Applied Linguistics

3) 1972: 21.26. August, 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.

2) 1969: 8.-12. September, 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.

1) 1964: 26.-31. October, 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. Pédagogie des Langues Vivantes
  • III. La Coordination des Recherches dans le Domaine Européen