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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;text-transform:uppercase'>44th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics </span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black'> </span><b><span style='font-size:22.0pt;color:red'>FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span style='color:black'>Theme: "The impact of Applied Linguistics"</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span style='color:black'>1 - 3 September 2011</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span style='color:black'>University of the West of England, Bristol, England, UK</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>BAAL 2011 will be held at the University of the West of England Bristol (UWE). The conference will be organised by the Department of English, Linguistics and Communication with the support of the Bristol Centre for Linguistics (BCL). The Department has hosted a wide variety of conferences over the past ten years, including the Sociolinguistics Symposium, the Bilingualism Symposium and the Annual conference of the Association for French Language Studies. Most recently the first three-day conference on Meaning and Interaction (i-Mean) was held at UWE in April 2009. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>BAAL 2011 will take place at Frenchay Campus, the main University Campus which lies about four miles north of Bristol city centre. Buses to the campus take around 10 minutes away from Bristol Parkway Train Station, which is a short journey from the main Temple Meads station. There are also good links to Bristol International Airport from various national and international destinations. We are confident Bristol will also do its best to contribute to a memorable conference. Located in the South West of England, Bristol is a very energetic a quirky city, which was one of six cities shortlisted for the European Capital of culture in 2008. Bristol enjoys a unique location close to the coast and countryside and is within a 2 hour train journey of London (120 miles from West London). There is a lot to see and do in this wonderful city, check out our website to get a taste of some of Bristol's highlights, such as Brunel’s Suspension Bridge over the Avon Gorge and the SS Great Britain! </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span style='color:black;text-transform:uppercase'>Plenary speakers</span></b><b><span style='color:black'>: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Diane Larsen-Freeman (University of Michigan)</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>Guy Cook (Open University) </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>Rick Iedema (University of Technology, Sydney) </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span style='color:black;text-transform:uppercase'>BAAL EC Invited colloquia</span></b><b><span style='color:black'>: </span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Systemic Functional Linguistics (Convenor: </span><span style='color:black'>Carolin Coffin</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>)</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Clinical Linguistics (Convenor: </span><span style='color:black'>Lixian Jin</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>)</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span style='color:black;text-transform:uppercase'>Conference OrganiserS</span></b><b><span style='color:black'>: </span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>Jeanine Treffers-Daller (</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><a href="mailto:Jeanine.Treffers-Daller@uwe.ac.uk">Jeanine.Treffers-Daller@uwe.ac.uk</a>)</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, UWE</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Tel: +44 (0) 117 32 82390</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Jo Angouri (<a href="mailto:Jo.Angouri@uwe.ac.uk">Jo.Angouri@uwe.ac.uk</a>)</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, UWE</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Tel: +44 (0) 117 32 85397</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>Conference Support: contact <u><a href="mailto:registration@inanyevent-uk.com">registration@inanyevent-uk.com</a></u></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>Conference webpage: <a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/news/conferences/BAAL2009/" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>in</span></a> development- see <a href="http://www.baal.org.uk/" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>www.baal.org.uk</span></a> for further details</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span style='color:black;text-transform:uppercase'>Call for Papers</span></b><b><span style='color:black'>:</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>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 style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span style='color:black'>DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: 5 April 2011</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>Please go to the BAAL conferences webpage to submit your abstract and follow the steps below (this works best in Internet Explorer 5.5 or better): <a href="http://www.baal.org.uk/confs.htm" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>http://www.baal.org.uk/confs.htm</span></a>.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>1. Click on 'submit an abstract to BAAL 2011 here' and register with the system. Make sure to save your details in case you want to amend your submission later. You will be sent an e-mail about successful registration and submission guidelines, the latter of which you are free to ignore if you are familiar with online abstract submission.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>2. Go back to the abstract submission page, log in to the submission system and start the submission process (you will have to answer a maximum of ten questions). An e-mail confirmation of receipt of abstract will be sent to you immediately. Your contact details will be included in the book of abstracts unless you opt out during the submission process.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>If you are unable to submit your abstract online, contact Dawn Knight at <a href="mailto:Dawn.Knight@nottingham.ac.uk">Dawn.Knight@nottingham.ac.uk</a>.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span style='color:black;text-transform:uppercase'>format</span></b><span style='color:black'>:</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>- Title in Times New Roman 12 (do not use all caps, no bold print)</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>- Text 300 words maximum (including references, if any)</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>- Times New Roman 12 </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>- Align text left, single-spaced</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>- Do not use any special fonts, such as bold print or caps (italics fine)</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>- Do NOT add tables, photos, or diagrams to your abstract</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>- Do NOT indent your paragraphs, leave one space between paragraphs instead</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span style='color:black;text-transform:uppercase'>Abstract type:</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>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 style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>- <b>Individual presentation for the parallel sessions</b></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>Individual papers have 25 minutes: 20 for the presentation, 5 for questions.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>- <b>Individual presentation for a Special Interest Group (SIG) track</b></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>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 ten Special Interest Groups. They are (1) UK Linguistic Ethnography Forum, (2) Corpus Linguistics, (3) Psycholinguistics, (4) Multimodality, (5) Language Learning and Teaching, (6) Language in Africa, (7) Gender and Language, (8) Vocabulary Studies, (9) Testing, Evaluation and Assessment, and (10) Intercultural Communication.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>- <b>Poster</b></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>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 prize for best poster displayed at the conference. The winner will receive £50 and a book.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>- <b>Proposed colloquium paper</b></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>Colloquium introduction and individual papers within the colloquium must be submitted separately, due to technical constraints. The organiser of the colloquium should first submit colloquium title and introduction along with an overview of paper titles in the colloquium (max 450 words). The paper abstracts of the colloquium should then be submitted by the organiser one by one, entitled "Paper X of <i>colloquium title</i>: <i>paper title</i>" followed by the abstract (max 300 words per abstract). Colloquia have half a day and a minimum of four papers. Colloquia proposers should plan their half day 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.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span style='color:black;text-transform:uppercase'>scholarships:</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>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. 200 words) explaining why you are applying for one of the scholarships.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>BAAL offers ten UK student scholarships to postgraduate students based in the UK. The scholarships cover the registration fee. BAAL also offers two International Scholarships, one of which is the Chris Brumfit International Scholarship. These are worth £1,000, which goes towards registration, accommodation, meals and travel.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span style='color:black;text-transform:uppercase'>All presenters have to be BAAL members by the time they register for the conference.</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#6600CC'>Dr Dawn Knight<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#6600CC'>Research Fellow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#6600CC'>School of English Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#6600CC'>University of Nottingham<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#6600CC'>NG7 2RD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#6600CC'>0115 84 66857<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><br/>
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