University Council of General and Applied Linguistics
About BAAL
BAAL is a professional association based in the UK, which provides a forum for people interested in language and applied linguistics. We have an international professional membership of more than 600 members.
BAAL organises scientific meetings, and publishes a newsletter and conference proceedings. We also send representatives to national and international meetings of interest to our members.
BAAL is affiliated to AILA, the International Association of Applied Linguistics
BAAL is a registered charity (registered charity number 264800)
BAAL is not an accreditation body for any courses or organisations and neither its name, nor its acronym, nor its logo can be used in the publicity material of any other organisation without prior permission of the Executive Committee. In particular, its name should not be used to suggest that it has accredited the work of another organisation.
The 44th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics
The Impact of Applied Linguistics
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University of the West of England,
Bristol, England, UK
8th BAAL Language Learning and Teaching Special Interest Group Conference
Beyond the Beginner: Sustaining Second Language Learning
July 4-
University of Oxford, Department of Education & Worcester College
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BAAL Corpus Linguistics Workshop
The BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG is very pleased to announce the following workshop
event for Soring 2012: Essential Statistics for Corpus Linguistics with R 14-
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Petition for Social Sciences and Humanities in Europe
Members may want to sign the letter/petition to promote funding of Social Sciences and Humanities research in Europe
http://www.eash.eu/openletter2011
Guy Cook
BAAL News
Click here for the latest available issue: BAAL News, Issue 99, Autumn 2011.
Don’t forget to have your say in the future of BAAL News. Complete the survey at http://www.tinyurl.com/baalnews.
BAAL ICSIG Seminar
Invitation to Seminar and Call for papers:
Thursday, May 17th and Friday, May 18th, 2012
Location: Michael Young Building, Faculty of Business and Law, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK
New Applying Linguistics Fund Launched
Closing Date: 31 March 2012
Proceedings of 2011 BAAL Conference at UWE
This is the first call for submissions to the Conference Proceedings for the 2011 Conference. If you would like to submit your extended abstract, please send it to me in the first instance, following carefully the guidelines given in the attached style sheet. Your abstract should be no more than 1,000 words long, including references. The publication will appear via a link on the BAAL web pages in the Spring. Please note that the Conference Proceedings does have an ISBN number and will therefore 'count' as a recognised publication.
The deadline for submission to me at steve.walsh@ncl.ac.uk is December 16, 2011.
Please contact me if you have any queries.
BAAL Book Prize 2011
It is with great pleasure that I am inviting publishers to submit titles (published in 2011) which you would like to be considered for the prestigious BAAL Book Prize. Full details of the application and review process are available here. This announcement will also be posted on the BAAL web pages. A shortlist will be posted on the same web pages before our annual conference, which in 2012 will be held at the University of Southampton.
I do hope that you will consider submitting titles. For the 2010 prize, we received
33 books from a total of ten publishers and the winning entry was The Handbook of
Language and Globalisation by Nikolas Coupland (Ed.) and published by Wiley-
Many congratulations to Nik and Wiley-
Please do not hesitate to contact me (steve.walsh@ncl.ac.uk) should you require any additional information and I look forward to receiving your submissions.
Book Prize Winner
We are pleased to announce the winner of the BAAL Book Prize awarded at the 2011 conference:
- The handbook of language and globalisation Nikolas Coupland (Ed.) Wiley-
Blackwell
Congratulations to Nikolas Coupland and Wiley-
Postgraduate Group on Facebook
The BAAL Postgraduate group is on Facebook. Why not pay a visit to the page? Click here to find out more.
Christopher Brumfit International Scholarship
The Christopher Brumfit International Scholarship provides an award for an Applied Linguist from outside Britain to attend the BAAL Annual Meeting. Click here to find out how to support the scholarship.
BAAL News
BAAL 2012 Conference
45th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics: Multilingual Theory and Practice in Applied Linguistics
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University of Southampton, England, UK.
Website
The BAAL 2012 conference website is now live at: www.llas.ac.uk/baal2012
Call for Papers
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Colloquium Call for Papers
Multilingualism in the Community: Promoting a community-
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