40th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics

6-8 September 2007 - The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Technology, Ideology and Practice in Applied Linguistics

The 40th BAAL annual conference, which will run from midday on Thursday September 6th to early afternoon on Saturday September 8th, will be jointly hosted by three departments of the University of Edinburgh: 

• Linguistics and English Language
• The Institute for Applied Language Studies
• The Moray House School of Education

The conference will be held in the Central Area Campus of the university, which is within 10 minutes' walking distance of the city-centre. A highlight of the event will be the celebration of 50 Years of applied linguistics at the university. This will be marked by the invited Pit Corder Colloquium and a dinner in Old College.

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and a thriving, cosmopolitan, cultural and educational centre. In the month before the conference the city's international arts festivals will be taking place and, during the same period, several other international linguistics conferences will be held in universities only a short distance away.

Edinburgh is well served by regular and low-cost flights from cities across Britain and Europe, by direct flights from North America, by sea from Europe and by high-speed rail links from around the UK.

Information on registration and accommodation will be posted on the website early next year.

Conference Organisers:

• Alan Davies, Linguistics and English Language e-mail: a1adavie @ staffmail.ed.ac.uk
• Heather Hewitt, Institute for Applied Language Studies e-mail: BAAL07 @ education.ed.ac.uk

Plenary speakers:

• Karin Aijmer, University of Gothenburg
• Norman Fairclough, University of Lancaster
• Richard Johnstone, University of Stirling