About ALAA
The Association was established at a national congress of applied linguists held at the University of Newcastle in August 1976, and is affiliated with the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliqué (AILA), founded in 1965.
AIMS
The aims of ALAA are to promote the application of linguistics to:
the methodology of teaching, learning and testing languages
- (including mother tongue, community and foreign languages)
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multicultural education in Australian society, including Aboriginal,
migrant and other groups
language teaching technology
problems of language and the individual
- (including language acquisition and language dysfunction)
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problems of language and society
- (including language planning and language standardisation)
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the theory and practice of interpreting and translation
the analysis and interpretation of spoken and written discourse
- (including stylistics, poetics and pragmatics)
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the study of language in relation to other semiotic systems
- (including film and theatre, mime and dance, codes and ciphers, costume and ornament, mythology and folklore)