GAL (Germany), Anéla (The Netherlands) Vals-Asla (Switzerland) are pleased to announce:
Second Junior Research Meeting
for
Applied Linguistics
(2010)
March 18-19, 2010; University of Muenster, Germany
CALL FOR PAPERS
After the successful first Junior Research Meeting for Applied Linguistics in Groningen in 2007, GAL (Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik, Germany), Anéla (Association Néerlandaise de Linguistique Appliquée), and Vals-Asla (Swiss Association for Applied Linguistics) are pleased to invite budding researchers, graduate students, and PhD students to the „Junior Research Meeting for Applied Linguistics“. At this meeting the opportunity will be given to participants to present their work to colleagues, both junior and senior, in an informal and supportive setting. It will also offer the possibility to come in contact with other researchers in your field.
Meetings of this kind have already been very successfully organized by Anéla, the Dutch affiliate of AILA, for over ten years. The aims of such junior research meetings are to provide junior researchers with the opportunity to present their studies to the wider academic community and to receive valuable feedback at the early stages of their research.
In addition, this meeting wants to promote the international exchange of ideas and to facilitate networking between European affiliates of AILA. The meeting is therefore organized in close cooperation with the Dutch and Swiss affiliates of AILA, Anéla and Vals-Asla.
We invite junior researchers to submit abstracts for:
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presentations of on-going or completed research (20 mins + 10 mins discussion)
OR
- presentations of raw data leading to discussion (60 mins)
AND/OR
- poster presentations.
Your research should address one or more questions from the following fields of applied linguistics:
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Language development
- Language in the community
- Language in education
- Language in professional settings
- Language counseling, including speech therapy
- Language of media
Possible topics range from first and second language acquisition; literacy development; language disorders; communication in institutions; language variation and linguistic discrimination, to multilingualism and intercultural communication. Topics from the field of language conflict; language policy and language planning; language and communication in politics, discourse and multimodality are also welcome. The studies can be based on written, audiovisual and virtual data.
Presentations may be held either in German or in English. To register and to submit abstracts please use the following e-mail address: galjunio@uni-muenster.de.
For further information on the conference, please contact the local organizers at the following address: mail@meerlehre.de or kersten@uni-hildesheim.de.
Programme committee:
Wilhelm Griesshaber (Münster)
Saskia Kersten (Hildesheim)
Martin Luginbühl (Zürich)
Dorothee Meer (Münster)
Jan D. ten Thije (Utrecht)
Local organizers:
Olga Fekete (Münster)
Wilhelm Griesshaber (Münster)
Dorothee Meer (Münster)
Important dates:
Submission deadline: October 1, 2009
Notification of authors: End of November 2009
Registration deadline: January 1, 2010
Conference: March 18-19, 2010
Further Information:
Conference languages: German and English
Conference Fees: 30 Euros (junior researchers), 50 Euros (senior researchers)