BAAL Executive Committee.

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The White Paper is the outcome of the RIPL Primary Languages Policy Summit, which took place on Friday 23rd November 2018 at the British Academy with financial support from BAAL.

More information can be found here.

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• 1st prize: Light and Language by Linda Persson with Wongatha women Geraldine Hogarth and Luxie Redmond-Hogarth, with parts of the community of Leonora, Desert of Eastern Goldfields Australia

“A fascinating collaborative project that highlighted lesser heard languages and ways of speaking, as in the case of indigenous communities in Australia. The use of media enabled community partners to fully engage in the process of visualising multilingualism.”

• 2nd prize: (Inter)weaving repertoires by Gail Prasad

“A very clear articulation of the complexity of multilingualism using weaving and the process of making as a way of evidencing the relationship between repertories framed by her vision and theoretical engagement.”

• 3rd prize: Languages: Time Dreams Avatars by Elina Karadzhova

“An incredibly thoughtful and provocative community project working with multilingual young people.  The visuals were striking.”

For further details of these winning entries including images, stories behind them and artists’ bios as well the original call, please visit https://www.baal.org.uk/what-we-do/funding/competition-for-visual-representations-of-multilingualism-2018-2019/

A digital exhibition of winning and shortlisted entries will be held on 29-31 August, the BAAL Annual Conference 2019, Manchester Metropolitan University. There will be an opportunity to meet the organisers and artists. Many thanks to the colleagues who have shown interest in the competition and helped in many other ways. We hope you enjoy the images as much as we do.

Best wishes

Zhu Hua on behalf of the BAAL Executive Committee

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The increasing range of applied linguistic projects which engage with the arts offer approaches to research and education which can move beyond traditional research methods, offering new ways to engage with people’s complex communicative, affective, experiential and political realities. They enable us to challenge accepted boundaries, open up possibilities and disrupt fixed and binary orientations, and offer new understandings of the range and complexity of communication in personal and social repertoires. However, applied linguistics is a broad and inherently interdisciplinary field, and the definitions, practices and implications of creative inquiry for applied linguistics are as yet under-explored and under-examined. This seminar therefore aims to foster discussion between established academics, early-career researchers, and artist-researchers in order to address the questions: What is creative inquiry? and What are its affordances for applied linguistics? It will initiate exploration of three broad themes:

1. creative methods (e.g. collage, drama, music) for understanding, researching and teaching communication;

2. applied linguistic methods for researching creative/artistic practice or researching arts as objects of communication;

3. engagement in creative collaborations across sectors and disciplines.

Convenors

Dr Lou Harvey, University of Leeds

Dr Jessica Bradley, University of Sheffield

Dr Emilee Moore, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona

Speakers

Dr George Androulakis, University of Thessaly

Dr Roslyn Appleby, University of Technology, Sydney

Dr Jessica Bradley, University of Sheffield

Dr Heather Connelly, University of Lincoln

Professor Tony Crowley, University of Leeds

Dr Maria Grazia Imperiale, University of Glasgow

Dr Vicky Macleroy, Goldsmiths, University of London

Professor Kate Pahl, Manchester Metropolitan University

Artist Participant

Dr Louise Atkinson

Discussants

Dr Judith Hanks, University of Leeds

Dr Andrea Milde, Nottingham Trent University

Dr James Simpson, University of Leeds

Professor Maggie Kubanyiova, University of Leeds

Roundtable

Dr Simon Coffey, King’s College London

Professor Angela Creese, University of Stirling

Dr Lou Harvey, University of Leeds

Dr Emilee Moore, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona

Dr Gameli Tordzro, University of Glasgow/Pan African Arts Scotland

Submission Guidelines

Abstracts are welcome for any of the three themes – Creative Methods, Creative Contexts and Practices, and Creative Collaborations – and should be submitted using the attached template. One paper will be selected per theme. Please indicate the theme for which you are submitting, and send the template to Lou Harvey at L.T.Harvey@leeds.ac.uk 

Key dates

Deadline for submissions: 30th April 2019

You will be notified of the outcome by 15th May 2019

Registration

The seminar is designed to develop as a conversation over the two days. Therefore all participants must commit to attendance on both days.

If you wish to attend the seminar but not present a paper please fill in the attached template and indicate in no more than 100 words how your work relates to the theme and how you could contribute to the discussion.

Costs

Registration: £50, payable by 31st May 2019

Accommodation: Bed and breakfast accommodation is available on campus on Wednesday 10th July at £42.50 per night, which you will be able to book and pay for as part of online registration. Delegates who also need accommodation for the night of Tuesday 9th July should contact Lou Harvey: L.T.Harvey@leeds.ac.uk 

We are delighted to invite you to the BAAL/Cambridge University Press Applied Linguistics Seminar Programme 2018-2019: Creative Inquiry in Applied Linguistics: Purposes, Practices, Possibilities at University of Leeds, 10th-11th July 2019. Please find the full Call for Papers and registration here – https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1s8xiuwywaguEpxZInpbZr6CHCOE6zzFa.  

The increasing range of applied linguistic projects which engage with the arts offer approaches to research and education which can move beyond traditional research methods, offering new ways to engage with people’s complex communicative, affective, experiential and political realities. They enable us to challenge accepted boundaries, open up possibilities and disrupt fixed and binary orientations, and offer new understandings of the range and complexity of communication in personal and social repertoires. However, applied linguistics is a broad and inherently interdisciplinary field, and the definitions, practices and implications of creative inquiry for applied linguistics are as yet under-explored and under-examined. This seminar therefore aims to foster discussion between established academics, early-career researchers, and artist-researchers in order to address the questions: What is creative inquiry? and What are its affordances for applied linguistics? It will initiate exploration of three broad themes:

1. creative methods (e.g. collage, drama, music) for understanding, researching and teaching communication;

2. applied linguistic methods for researching creative/artistic practice or researching arts as objects of communication;

3. engagement in creative collaborations across sectors and disciplines.

Convenors

Dr Lou Harvey, University of Leeds

Dr Jessica Bradley, University of Sheffield

Dr Emilee Moore, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona

Speakers

Dr George Androulakis, University of Thessaly

Dr Roslyn Appleby, University of Technology, Sydney

Dr Jessica Bradley, University of Sheffield

Dr Heather Connelly, University of Lincoln

Professor Tony Crowley, University of Leeds

Dr Maria Grazia Imperiale, University of Glasgow

Dr Vicky Macleroy, Goldsmiths, University of London

Professor Kate Pahl, Manchester Metropolitan University

Artist Participant

Dr Louise Atkinson

Discussants

Dr Judith Hanks, University of Leeds

Dr Andrea Milde, Nottingham Trent University

Dr James Simpson, University of Leeds

Professor Maggie Kubanyiova, University of Leeds

Roundtable

Dr Simon Coffey, King’s College London

Professor Angela Creese, University of Stirling

Dr Lou Harvey, University of Leeds

Dr Emilee Moore, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona

Dr Gameli Tordzro, University of Glasgow/Pan African Arts Scotland

Submission Guidelines

Abstracts are welcome for any of the three themes – Creative Methods, Creative Contexts and Practices, and Creative Collaborations – and should be submitted using the attached template. One paper will be selected per theme. Please indicate the theme for which you are submitting, and send the template to Lou Harvey at L.T.Harvey@leeds.ac.uk 

Key dates

Deadline for submissions: 30th April 2019

You will be notified of the outcome by 15th May 2019

Registration

The seminar is designed to develop as a conversation over the two days. Therefore all participants must commit to attendance on both days.

If you wish to attend the seminar but not present a paper please fill in the attached template and indicate in no more than 100 words how your work relates to the theme and how you could contribute to the discussion.

Costs

Registration: £50, payable by 31st May 2019

Accommodation: Bed and breakfast accommodation is available on campus on Wednesday 10th July at £42.50 per night, which you will be able to book and pay for as part of online registration. Delegates who also need accommodation for the night of Tuesday 9th July should contact Lou Harvey: L.T. Harvey@leeds.ac.uk

Seminar dinner: On the evening of Wednesday 10th July there will be a dinner at a local restaurant. The cost of this is not included in the registration fee and must be met by delegates. Please indicate when you register whether you would like to attend this.

Scholarships

Funding is available for two student members of BAAL to cover registration. Please indicate if you would like to be considered. 

We look forward to receiving your contributions and to welcoming you to Leeds in July.

With best wishes

Lou Harvey

Jessica Bradley

Emilee Moore

Dr Lou Harvey

Lecturer in Language Education

G.14 Hillary Place

School of Education

University of Leeds

LS2 9JT

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I’m very excited to share the programme for the upcoming annual BAAL Language in Africa SIG conference which will be held on the 10th of May at the University of Portsmouth. The programme can be accessed on our website here.

This year’s conference theme is Language and Decolonisation in 21st Century Africa. We have an exciting range of speakers who will be discussing language in Africa across a number of countries including: Algeria, Botswana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, the Gambia, Equatorial Guinea, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, and South Africa.

We are also delighted to welcome Professor Rosemary Wildsmith-Cromarty as our plenary speaker who will deliver her talk ‘Language, Power and Decolonisation: Un ménage à trois?’

You can register for the conference here. The registration deadline for the conference is 22nd April.

Hope to see you there!

Best wishes,

Colin

Dr Colin Reilly

Research Assistant 

School of Education

University of Glasgow

Secretary 

Language in Africa, Special Interest Group

British Association for Applied Linguistics

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The inaugural event has been planned to showcase current work on multilingualism among the BAAL community and beyond, to provide an opportunity for the exchange and cross fertilisation of ideas aimed at promoting the multilingual turn in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, and to discuss the agenda for the Multilingualism SIG. A short AGM will follow the event to elect committee members. In an inclusive spirit, we encourage all participants to submit a poster of a current project on multilingualism. Details of the programme are attached.

Please register your interest in the event at this link:

https://forms.gle/2RjD3acthpeBt6Pv5

We kindly ask you to submit your registration form by 17 May.

Details of (modest) registration fees and poster submission will be circulated in due course.

We would also like to draw your attention to our SIG’s mailing list:

MULTILINGUALISM-SIG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

You are very welcome to join the list by subscribing here:

https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=MULTILINGUALISM-SIG

As in other SIGs, we will assume that everyone subscribed to the mailing list to be a member of our SIG, so please do subscribe if you would like to join the SIG or confirm your membership.

And here are the links to our newly created social media accounts: Twitter and Facebook  Do follow and like us as we start populating the pages with content and announcements.

With our best wishes,

The Provisional SIG Committee

Petros Karatsareas (Co-convenor)

Siân Preece (Co-convenor)

Lina Adinolfi

Salman Al-Azami

Froso Argyri

Ana Souza

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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

Theme: “Broadening the Horizons of Applied Linguistics”

29-31 August 2019

Manchester Metropolitan University, England, UK

BAAL 2019 will be held at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK.

Our theme- Broadening the Horizons of Applied Linguistics – takes as its premise that applied linguistics underpins a vast range of disciplines, and we intend the 2019 meeting to encourage exploration of the role that applied linguistics plays in many walks of life. We hope the conference theme will encourage proposals from a wide range of disciplines and that this in turn will encourage cross-disciplinary dissemination of ideas and research. Our Local Organising Committee is drawn from different faculties and departments across the university – the School of Teacher Education and Professional Development and the School of Childhood, Youth and Educational Studies, both within the Faculty of Education, the Department of Languages, Information and Communications within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and the Faculty of Health, Psychology & Social Care.

The BAAL 2019 conference is hosted by the Faculty of Education, located in the Brooks Building in the centre of Manchester. Manchester is a vibrant, lively city which not only has a rich industrial heritage but is also home to an exciting and varied cultural life. Manchester is only two hours from London by train, and in easy reach of Liverpool, Chester, North Wales and the Lake District, the Peak District and Yorkshire. The campus is easily accessible by car and rail. The University is a 20-minute walk or a short taxi ride from the train station.  There is a direct train from Manchester Airport.

PLENARY SPEAKERS:                      

Julia Carroll – University of Coventry

Tim Grant – Aston University

Kate Pahl – Manchester Metropolitan University

Adrian Holliday – Canterbury Christ Church University (Pit Corder lecture)

BAAL EC INVITED COLLOQUIA:                                  

To be confirmed

 CONFERENCE ORGANISERS:       

Conference Support: contact Baal2019@mmu.ac.uk   

Conference webpage: www.mmu.ac.uk/baal2019  

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.

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: 31 March 2019

Maximum abstract length: 300 words

To submit your abstract please use Oxford Abstracts

https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/890/submission

If you haven’t used this system before please register first.   All submissions must be submitted on-line. If you have any queries please contact Baal2019@mmu.ac.uk  

ABSTRACT TYPE:

Indicate the type of abstract that you are submitting during the submission process: individual presentation for parallel sessions or a SIG track, poster, or colloquium.

Individual presentation for the parallel sessions

Individual papers have 25 minutes: 20 for the presentation, 5 for questions.

Individual presentation for a Special Interest Group (SIG) track

If you believe your paper is of interest to a SIG track, you may want to submit it to one of the SIG tracks (all individuals, whether or not officially SIG members, are eligible). The SIG may then wish to include your paper in a track at the annual meeting. Submitting your abstract to a SIG track may or may not lead to your paper being included in a SIG track and has no impact on abstract acceptance to the conference. BAAL has thirteen Special Interest Groups. They are: (1) Corpus Linguistics; (2) Health and Science Communication; (3) Intercultural Communication; (4) Language, Gender and Sexuality; (5) Language and New media; (6) Language in Africa; (7) Language Learning and Teaching; (8) Language Policy; (9) Linguistic Ethnography; (10) Linguistics and Knowledge about Language in Education; (11) Professional, Academic and Work-based Literacies (PAWBL); (12) Testing, Evaluation and Assessment; (13) Vocabulary Studies.

Proposed colloquium

We invite colloquia on particular themes which have relevance to the conference. Colloquia have half a day and a minimum of four papers. Colloquia proposers should plan their half day in four slots, in step with the individual paper slots. If they wish to have a larger number of papers, they may fit two papers into what would normally be a single slot. Colloquia papers should cohere. The order of the papers should not be changed after acceptance. An abstract for the colloquium introduction is required along with abstracts for each paper within the colloquium (300 words per abstract). Please state explicitly in the abstract text to say that it’s part of a colloquium (with colloquium title).

 Poster

We strongly encourage the submission of abstracts for posters. We aim to raise the profile of posters at our conference since we value them as equal to other forms of presentation, and we believe that they tend to receive more feedback than individual papers. All posters will be listed in the book of abstracts, and there will be a dedicated area and time slot for discussion of poster presentations. There will also be a £50 prize for best poster displayed at the conference.

 SCHOLARSHIPS:

During the abstract submission process, you will be asked to indicate whether you want to apply for a scholarship. If so, we will send the scholarship application forms to you by email. Each candidate will also be required to provide two full references plus a list of other conferences they have attended and any other grants/scholarships that they have received for their studies.

BAAL offers 4-5 full conference scholarships (for students or early career researchers, with the latter defined as being within 2 years of PhD completion). Monies from a special ring-fenced fund, contributed by donors, will pay for the additional ‘Chris Brumfit scholarship’ for up to £1,000, which is usually targeted at delegates from outside Britain who would not otherwise have funds to do so to attend the BAAL Annual Meeting.

The scholarships will help towards the cost of the conference fee, onsite accommodation for the duration of the conference (where accommodation is graded, the fund will only cover the cost of the cheapest option) and within UK travel (for student/ ECR scholarship), subject to fair use (e.g. no first class travels/ taxi journeys).

ALL PRESENTERS HAVE TO BE BAAL MEMBERS BY THE TIME THEY REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE

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Professional, Academic and Work-based literacies (PAWBL) SIG: June symposium

Work, life, study: literacies in and out of institutions

Call for Abstracts and Registration information

Birmingham City University, UK

Tuesday, 11^th June 2019 11 am – 4.30 pm

Plenary speaker: Dr Karin Tusting, Lancaster University

Symposium theme:

A common thread connecting the triple professional, academic and work-based foci of PAWBL as a special interest group is the role of institutions in shaping literacy practices, and the consequences which follow for individuals, organisations and wider society. A concern with institutional context has enabled researchers to maintain a focus on literacies within domains of power, to substantiate a critique of the vested interests which shape institutions, policies and working practices, and to raise questions about the kinds of literacy/ies which are, and are not, valued within those institutions. At the same time, current theorisation in literacies research emphasises the need to take account of the fluid nature of literacy which follows from its fundamentally social character.  Changing communication practices have challenged researchers to question established boundaries between modes, languages, writers and readers, and domains. Texts, writers and readers are in constant movement across time and space, shifting between different work, life and study contexts, in and out of different roles and institutions. This symposium will explore emerging questions about how we understand the continuities and discontinuities between different institutional and professional contexts, and about how individuals might manage (and be helped to manage) their trajectories between, in and out of such spaces.

Some of the key questions the symposium will explore are:

• How do individuals negotiate the different and sometimes conflicting demands of academic and professional domains, for example in undergraduate vocational higher education or those studying for a professional master’s degree or doctorate? How can literacies in these complex domains be effectively supported? What are the implications for pedagogy within and beyond institutions?
• How do writers and readers move between different institutional contexts and practices in daily life and over the life span? Do they experience continuities or discontinuities? With what consequences, for example, for access? How best can these shifts be researched and theorized, and how can our understanding be applied?
• What does the lens of institutionally sponsored literacies as ‘labour’ bring to our understanding of literacy practices within, on the margins of and outside of institutions? What are the wider implications for contemporary theorizing of literacies?
• How can deeper understanding of literacies as situated social practice contribute to an understanding of institutional and social change, and how can it influence such change in positive ways, for example through policy work?
• How do writers from different institutional and non-institutional backgrounds work collaboratively to produce texts, and how can such work be supported?

The event will combine a plenary talk by visiting speaker Dr Karin Tusting, round table discussions and presentation sessions. The aim is to continue to foster conversations on these and other issues relevant to the production, consumption and evaluation of texts in professional, academic and workplace contexts.

We welcome proposals for contributions of two kinds:

10-minute informal round table presentations on any aspects of the symposium theme. These presentations should take the form of a brief summary/statement of a specific research finding/project/interest/problem, followed by a specific question the presenter is currently grappling with (with presenters providing handouts for participants).

Up to 20-minute ‘formal’ presentations [with an additional 10 minutes for Q and A] on any aspects of the symposium theme. Presenters are welcome to use slides and/or handouts, but don’t have to.

Deadline for proposals: 15^th April 2019

Format for proposals: Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words for 10-minute presentations and no more than 500 words for 20-minute presentations.

Please send your abstract to Jackie Tuck: jackie.tuck@open.ac.uk

Deadline for registration and payment (see this website, for details and registration form): 10^th May 2019

Please send your registration form to Victoria Odeniyi: v.odeniyi@ucl.ac.uk

All welcome, including practitioners, postgraduate students and early career researchers.

 Symposium venue:

Seacole building, City South Campus, Birmingham City University. For a map see: https://www.bcu.ac.uk/about-us/maps-and-campuses/city-south-campus

The cost per person will be £35 for BAAL members and £45 for non-members of BAAL; £20 for BAAL student members and £30 for students who are not BAAL members.

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David was very active in the association in its early years, and was the prime instigator of the annual BAAL book prize. He is survived by his wife, Margaret Keeton, and triplet daughters. There will be no public funeral. Instead, Margaret has said ‘I would like people who knew David – and there were probably thousands who knew/knew of him through his work and conferences – to enjoy their memories of what he contributed in their own ways.’

David’s former Open University colleague Barbara Mayor (barbara.mayor@open.ac.uk) would be happy to convey any personal messages to the family.

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