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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear ACLA-CAAL Community,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">On behalf of the UBC Conference Team organizing this year’s #<b>AAAL2021 Virtual Conference</b>, I invite you to attend our conference next month, featuring nearly 1000 presentations across 22 different thematic
strands! Almost all the content will be recorded, close-captioned, and available to registered attendees for 6 months during/after the conference. Registration rates increase on Feb. 5, 2021. Hope to ‘see’ you there! For more information, please check here:
<a href="https://www.aaal.org/2021-save-the-date">https://www.aaal.org/2021-save-the-date</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Patsy Duff & UBC’s AAAL2021 Conference Team
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#595959">__________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#203864">Dr. Patricia (Patsy) Duff<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F4E79">Associate Dean, Research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F4E79">Vice President, American Association for Applied Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F4E79">Professor & Distinguished University Scholar, Dept. of Language & Literacy Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F4E79">University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F4E79">Traditional, Ancestral, and Unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Territory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F4E79">309F - 2125 Main Mall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F4E79">Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Email: <a href="mailto:Patricia.Duff@ubc.ca">
Patricia.Duff@ubc.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Phone: 604-822-0063<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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