ALAA was established at a national congress of applied linguists held at the University of Newcastle in August, 1976. The Association is affiliated with the
Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (AILA) founded in 1965. ALAA includes
both national and international members and fosters both practical and research-based
national-level and international activities in applied linguistics.
ALAA promotes the usefulness of linguistic insights into a wide range of social
and individual activities, supports the public development of policy in
relation to language issues, organises an annual conference, produces
the journal Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, edits occasional
papers in applied linguistics, provides scholarships for high quality
student research in areas of applied linguistics, and jointly sponsors the
Australian Linguistics Institute
with the Australian
Linguistic Society. To find out more about ALAA, select one of the pages on the
index at left. Recent items of importance will be placed under the "Stop Press" box on the right.
Stop Press!
The June 2008 edition of the ALAA Newsletter may be downloaded here.
The 2008 ALAA conference will be held as part of LingFest 2008 at the University of Sydney, Australia, 30 June — 13 July 2008. LingFest is a series of linguistics conferences and the Winter Linguistics Institute. Go to http://www.lingfest.arts.usyd.edu.au/ for details about registering for the ALAA conference or other LingFest events. Go here for the ALAA Conference details.
Meeting call: Development of a National Corpus of English in Australia (NCEA) Details may be downloaded here
Important new details on the Michael Clyne Prize 2008: Immigrant bilingualism and language contact here
New conference information on the Forthcoming Congresses page.