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.
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The Applied Linguistics Association of NZ and of Australia (ALANZ and ALAA) are pleased to announce that their first combined conference will be held in Auckland, New Zealand.
Dates: 2-4 December 2009
Venue: AUT University
Conference theme: Participation and acquisition: Exploring these metaphors in Applied Linguistics.
Go to http://www.alanz.ac.nz/conferences/ for further information.
New conference information on the Forthcoming Congresses page.