The 16th World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA2011) will be held in Beijing on August 23-28, 2011.
Theme: Harmony in diversity: language, culture, society
Time: August 23-28, 2011
Venue: Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing
Organizer: Organized by Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (International Association of Applied Linguistics)
Hosted by: China English Language Education Association
Beijing Foreign Studies University
National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education
Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
Strands:
A: Language Acquisition and Processing
1. First Language Acquisition
2. Second Language Acquisition
3. Written and Visual Literacy
4. Psycholinguistics
B: Language Teaching and Learning
5. Mother Tongue Education
6. Standard Language Education
7. Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Development
8. Learner Autonomy in Language Learning
9. Language and Education in Multilingual Settings
10. Educational Technology and Language Learning
C: Language in Professions
11. Business and Professional Communication
12. Translating, Interpreting and Mediation
13. Language and the Law
14. Language and the workplace
15. Language in the Media and Public Discourse
D: Language in Societies
16. Sociolinguistics
17. Language Policy
18. Multilingualism and Multiculturalism
19. Intercultural Communication
20. Applied linguistics within Asian contexts
E: Applied Linguistics and Methodology
21. Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics
22. Rhetoric and Stylistics
23. Contrastive Linguistics and Error Analysis
24. Lexicography and Lexicology
25. Multimodality in Discourse and Text
26. Language Evaluation, Assessment and Testing
Plenary Speakers:
Allan Bell (Auckland University of Technology)
Malcolm Coulthard (University of Aston)
Diane Larsen-Freeman (University of Michigan)
Barbara Seidlhofer (University of Vienna)
Gu Yueguo (Beijing Foreign Studies University, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
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
• Franćise 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
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