Call for Future BAAL Conferences
The BAAL executive committee is inviting host bids for the annual BAAL conferences in September 2014 and September 2015.
If you are interested in hosting the annual conference, please submit a detailed
host bid addressing all the points in the check-
Please send your host bid to Dawn Knight by 22nd April 2011. Do not hesitate to contact me should you wish to discuss your host bid before submitting it.
Future Conferences
2012: 6-
2013: 5-
2014: 4-
2015: 3-
2016: 1-
2017: 7-
2018: 6-
2019: 5-
2020: 3-
2021: 2-
2022: 1-
2023: 7-
2024: 5-
2025: 4-
Forthcoming Conference
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University of the Southampton, England, UK
BAAL 2012 will be held at Highfield Campus of the University of Southampton. The conference is being organised by the Centre for Applied Language Research and Modern Languages, at the University of Southampton. The University has hosted a wide variety of conferences over the past ten years including including the BAAL LLT SIG conference in 2006, the 2nd international ELF conference in 2009, and Sociolinguistics Symposium 18 in 2010. BAAL 1995 was also held at the University of Southampton.
BAAL 2012 will take place at Highfield Campus, the main University Campus, which is located in the northern inner suburbs of Southampton (2 miles from city centre). The campus is easily accessible by car via M3 and M27. Southampton also has very good rail services to Southampton Central (from the southwest) and to Southampton Airport Parkway (from London and the north) and the Unilink bus service provides direct buses to the campus from the city centre and from Parkway. Southampton airport has a good range of regional services and is located next to Parkway station.
Banks, Waterstones bookshop and a post office are located en route between Glen Eyre (the delegate accommodation for BAAL 2012) and the Highfield campus. The Jubilee Sports Centre on campus offers a 25 metre swimming pool and gym facilities (admissions payable separately). The campus is adjacent to Southampton Common, a 300 acre natural park excellent for walking/ jogging.
Plenary speakers:
Kingsley Bolton, City University of Hong Kong
Aneta Pavlenko, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
Rosemarie Tracy, University of Mannheim, Germany
BAAL EC Invited colloquia:
To be confirmed
Conference Organisers:
Professor Rosamond Mitchell and Dr Alasdair Archibald (aa3@soton.ac.uk)
Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton
Last Conference
1 -
University of the West of England, Bristol, England, UK
BAAL 2011 will be held at the University of the West of England Bristol (UWE). The
conference will be organised by the Department of English, Linguistics and Communication
with the support of the Bristol Centre for Linguistics (BCL). The Department has
hosted a wide variety of conferences over the past ten years, including the Sociolinguistics
Symposium, the Bilingualism Symposium and the Annual conference of the Association
for French Language Studies. Most recently the first three-
BAAL 2011 will take place at Frenchay Campus, the main University Campus which lies about four miles north of Bristol city centre. Buses to the campus take around 10 minutes away from Bristol Parkway Train Station, which is a short journey from the main Temple Meads station. There are also good links to Bristol International Airport from various national and international destinations. We are confident Bristol will also do its best to contribute to a memorable conference. Located in the South West of England, Bristol is a very energetic a quirky city, which was one of six cities shortlisted for the European Capital of culture in 2008. Bristol enjoys a unique location close to the coast and countryside and is within a 2 hour train journey of London (120 miles from West London). There is a lot to see and do in this wonderful city, check out our website to get a taste of some of Bristol's highlights, such as Brunel’s Suspension Bridge over the Avon Gorge and the SS Great Britain!
Plenary speakers:
Diane Larsen-
Guy Cook (Open University)
Rick Iedema (University of Technology, Sydney)
BAAL EC Invited colloquia:
Systemic Functional Linguistics (Convenor: Carolin Coffin)
Clinical Linguistics (Convenor: Lixian Jin)
Conference Organisers:
Jeanine Treffers-
School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, UWE
Tel: +44 (0) 117 32 82390
Jo Angouri (Jo.Angouri@uwe.ac.uk)
School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, UWE
Tel: +44 (0) 117 32 85397
Conference Support: contact registration@inanyevent-
Conference webpage: in development
Call for Papers:
Abstracts are welcome in any area of Applied Linguistics, should be interesting and innovative in some way, and should be of scholarly and academically good quality and indicate clearly objectives, method(s), and results where appropriate. Abstracts which address the conference theme will be particularly welcome.
Scholarships:
During the abstract submission process, you will be asked to indicate whether you want to apply for a scholarship. If so, choose the scholarship you want to apply for and write a short paragraph (max. 200 words) explaining why you are applying for one of the scholarships.
BAAL offers ten UK student scholarships to postgraduate students based in the UK. The scholarships cover the registration fee. BAAL also offers two International Scholarships, one of which is the Christopher Brumfit International Scholarship. These are worth £1,000, which goes towards registration, accommodation, meals and travel.
All presenters have to be BAAL members by the time they register for the conference.
Previous Conferences
An archive of previous BAAL conferences is available to members in the Members Area.
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