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!
Important new details on the Michael Clyne Prize 2008: Immigrant bilingualism and language contact here
New conference information on the Forthcoming Congresses page.
CFP and details of the ALAA Conference 2008(part of LingFest 2008) is now available.
The December 2007 issue of the ALAA newsletter may be downloaded here.
You may download the June 2007 issue of the ALAA Newsletter here.
LingFest 2008 will be held at the University of Sydney, Australia, 30 June — 13 July 2008. LingFest is a series of linguistics conferences and the Winter Linguistics Institute. More info to come!