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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">43RD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Theme: "Applied Linguistics: Global and Local"</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">9 - 11 September 2010</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Aberdeen</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Aberdeen</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Scotland</st1:country-region></st1:place></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">BAAL 2010 will be held at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Aberdeen</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>. The conference will be organised by the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Language</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> and Literature and the Centre for Linguistic Research.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The University campus is located close to the city centre in the historic <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Village</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Old Aberdeen</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> and within easy reach of railway and bus stations. <st1:City w:st="on">Aberdeen</st1:City> airport is served by regular flights with low-cost airlines from cities across the British Isles and <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><st1:City w:st="on">Aberdeen</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Scotland</st1:country-region>'s third city, is known by many names: the <st1:City w:st="on">granite city</st1:City>, the oil capital of <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>, and the silver city by the golden sands, all of these encapsulating various aspects of the city. <st1:City w:st="on">Aberdeen</st1:City> has two universities, a 5 star <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Maritime</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, a variety of restaurants, coffee shops, tea rooms, and a wide range of cultural, entertainment, and shopping attractions. The Aberdeen-Grampian area boasts dozens of castles,</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">coastal roads, golf courses and plenty of cultural attractions. We are confident that it will provide an inspiring conference experience too.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">PLENARY SPEAKERS:</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Bonny Norton (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">British Columbia</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Tove Skutnabb‐Kangas (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Roskilde</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Wilson McLeod (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Edinburgh</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Alastair Pennycook (<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Technology</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sydney</st1:place></st1:City>)</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">CONFERENCE ORGANISER:</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Robert McColl Millar (r.millar@abdn.ac.uk)</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Tel: +44 (0) 1224 273909</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Fax: +44 (0) 1224 272624</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">CALL FOR PAPERS:</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Abstracts are welcome in any area of Applied Linguistics that fits within the theme of the conference:</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">"Applied Linguistics: Global and Local".</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: 31 March 2010</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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): http://www.baal.org.uk/confs.htm.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">1. Click on 'submit an abstract to BAAL2010 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</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">submission.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">If you are unable to submit your abstract online, contact Erik Schleef at erik.schleef@manchester.ac.uk.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">FORMAT:</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">* Title in Times New Roman 12 (do not use all caps, no bold print)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">* Text 300 words maximum (including references, if any)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">* Times New Roman 12</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">* Align text left, single‐spaced</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">* Do not use any special fonts, such as bold print or caps (italics fine)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">* Do NOT add tables, photos, or diagrams to your abstract</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">* Do NOT indent your paragraphs, leave one space between paragraphs instead</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">ABSTRACT TYPE:</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Indicate the type of abstract that you are submitting during the submission process: individual presentation for parallel sessions or a SIG track, poster, or colloquium.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">* Individual presentation for the parallel sessions. Individual papers have 25 minutes: 20 for the presentation, 5 for questions.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">* Individual presentation for a Special Interest Group (SIG) track. 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.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Learning and Teaching, (6) Language in <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>, (7) Gender and Language, (8) Vocabulary Studies, (9) Testing, Evaluation and Assessment, and (10) Intercultural Communication.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">* Poster. 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</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">* Proposed colloquium paper. 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).</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The paper abstracts of the colloquium should then be submitted by the organiser one by one, entitled "Paper X of colloquium title: paper title" 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.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">SCHOLARSHIPS:</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">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)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>explaining why you are applying for one of the scholarships. BAAL offers ten <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region> student scholarships to postgraduate students based in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>. 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</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">and travel.</P>
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