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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;text-transform:uppercase;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">51st Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics
</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:22.0pt;color:red;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">2<sup>nd</sup> CALL FOR PAPERS</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Theme: "Taking Risks in Applied Linguistics"</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">6 - 8 September 2018</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">York St John University, England, UK</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:14.65pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">BAAL 2018 will be held at York St John University in York, UK.
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">After celebrating half a century of BAAL in 2017, our theme—<b>Taking Risks in Applied Linguistics</b>—will make the 2018 meeting a testing ground for new ways of pursuing
our research and improving our practice. Our global community is facing unsettling times, and language use is at the heart of many of the challenges we face. Such challenges include: new and renewed areas of social inequality; political, social and economic
instabilities; language learning and teaching-related concerns; and legislative changes which affect the rights of certain groups. The 2018 meeting will be a forum for bold thinking to address these challenges. We hope the conference theme will encourage innovative
proposals for papers, posters, and colloquia. We will provide some alternative session types too, so that delegates can present and get feedback on unfinished but original lines of thought and untested but promising new approaches to research and practice.
New work on old ideas is also very welcome, to ensure that our collective disciplinary wisdom isn’t lost. Equally, we want to hear about work from outside our disciplinary borders, and indeed, outside of academia altogether.
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;background:white">The BAAL 2018 conference is hosted by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/schools/languages--linguistics/lidia/" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;background:white">LIdIA</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:black;background:white">
(Language and Identities in InterAction)</span></span><span style="color:black;background:white">, an interdisciplinary research unit based in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/schools/languages--linguistics/" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;background:white">School
of Languages and Linguistics</span></a><span style="color:black;background:white">.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black;background:white"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">York St John
University is </span><span lang="EN-GB">located in the centre of York. <span style="color:black;background:white">
Rich in ancient history and famous for its wealth of visitor attractions, York is a flourishing city, just two hours by train from London and Edinburgh. The campus is easily accessible by car and rail. </span><span style="background:white">The University is
a 16-minute walk or a short<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>taxi ride<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>from the train station. <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">The nearest major airports are<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Leeds
Bradford Airport<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> </span></span><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">(30 miles) or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Manchester Airport<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> </span></span><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">(85
miles). Getting from Leeds Bradford Airport to York is easiest by taxi. There is a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>direct<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> </span></span><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">train
from Manchester Airport.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;text-transform:uppercase;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Plenary speakers</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">:
</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN">Annelies Kusters – Heriot-Watt University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN">Erez Levon – Queen Mary University of London<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN">Anne Pauwels – SOAS University of London<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN">Bill VanPatten – Michigan State University (Pit Corder lecture)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;text-transform:uppercase;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">BAAL EC Invited colloquia</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">:
</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">To be confirmed</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;text-transform:uppercase;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Conference OrganiserS</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">:
</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Professor Chris Hall and
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr Rachel Wicaksono</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">, School of Languages and Linguistics, York St John University</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Conference Support: contact </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:events@baal2018.org.uk"><span lang="EN">events@baal2018.org.uk</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN">
</span></span><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Conference webpage:
</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.baal2018.org.uk">www.baal2018.org.uk</a><span class="MsoHyperlink">
</span> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;text-transform:uppercase;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Call for Papers</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">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.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: 31 March 2018<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Maximum abstract length: 300 words<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">To submit your abstract please use
</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/281/submission"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Oxford Abstracts</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> (</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/281/submission"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/281/submission</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">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
<a href="mailto:events@baal2018.org.uk"><span lang="EN">events@baal2018.org.uk</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink">
</span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN" style="color:black">or call 01904 702165.</span></span><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;text-transform:uppercase;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Abstract type:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Indicate the type of abstract that you are submitting during the submission process:
<i>individual presentation for parallel sessions or a SIG track, poster, or colloquium.</i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Individual presentation for the parallel sessions</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Individual papers have 25 minutes: 20 for the presentation, 5 for questions.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Individual presentation for a Special Interest Group (SIG) track</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">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.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Proposed colloquium
</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">We invite colloquia on particular themes which have relevance to the conference. Colloquia have two hours and a minimum of four papers. Colloquia
proposers should plan their two hours 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).
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Poster</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">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. There are two types of poster presentation types to choose from:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Traditional paper poster or
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Screen poster – this new electronic format enables presenters to include animation and sound, giving the presentation a dynamic, multi-modal flavour. This can be in in the form
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">of a </span><span lang="EN-GB">max. 1-minute PowerPoint self-running presentation, Autoplay Prezi, or video</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">.
<span style="color:black">Screens will be available for this type of display. </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Lightning talk<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">New for BAAL 2018, in keeping with our theme, we propose to run sessions of 'lightning talks', giving the opportunity to take risks both in terms of content and mode of dissemination. A 5-minute lightning talk for BAAL will
give the speaker the chance to propose a bold solution to an applied linguistics issue or to offer a snappy summary of an innovative or risky project or concept. This type of talk is strictly limited to a maximum of 5 minutes and 7 slides (containing minimal
information) although you are welcome to distribute additional handouts at the start of the session. Each lightning talk session will end with a 10-15 minute question and answer panel with presenters. Further guidance on lightning talks is available here:
</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.unicef.org/knowledge-exchange/files/Lightning_Talks_production.pdf">https://www.unicef.org/knowledge-exchange/files/Lightning_Talks_production.pdf</a><span style="color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;text-transform:uppercase;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">scholarships:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">During the abstract submission process, you will be asked to indicate whether you want to apply for a scholarship. If so, choose the scholarship
you want to apply for and write a short paragraph (max. 100 words) explaining why you are applying for one of the scholarships (explaining why they should be considered for the awards).
</span><span lang="EN-GB">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.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight:normal">BAAL offers 4-5 full conference scholarships (for students or
<span style="color:black">early career researchers, with the latter defined as being within 2 years of PhD completion</span>). Monies from a special ring-fenced fund, contributed by donors, will pay for the additional ‘Chris Brumfit scholarship’.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The scholarships are worth up to around £1,000 (this may be flexible depending on the cost of travel for the specific applicant), which goes towards
registration, accommodation, and travel.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;text-transform:uppercase;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">All presenters have to be BAAL members by the time they register for the conference.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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