<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Agnes He, AAAL Secretary</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:agnes.he@stonybrook.edu" target="_blank">agnes.he@stonybrook.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 4:26 PM<br>Subject: AAAL Conferences Go Multilingual!<br><br></div><br><br><div><u></u>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(40,24,64);font-family:Candara,Trebuchet MS,Arial,sans-serif">Dear AAAL community:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(40,24,64);font-family:Candara,Trebuchet MS,Arial,sans-serif">In my capacity as Secretary of AAAL, it is a great pleasure to announce that the</span><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rsunZZmhspqjLy6XPki3s7PdZhO9s2sUAuTt30nFk5GFCXkG1Y-neRrfHmN8HV2viYUufd_IBdtmpCeV-uZXPSN76EnKHi3LJmh4RcoN1AR-7c0m54JPN2fOCovrSc5xaGeBhTti5YMn8cFJiKEtj1pF7fTck5Tf&c=0Y-oztDM9cF4nAHANEAc_EkHNeZGJyw2nXOFffj5z9JKp9KRMWMDxA==&ch=gruiJaf4RFXBAFFC7PuwUXXGLegNcMKIk-BiO79gNxDbabQOrJyUvw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(40,24,64);font-family:Candara,Trebuchet MS,Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rsunZZmhspqjLy6XPki3s7PdZhO9s2sUAuTt30nFk5GFCXkG1Y-neRrfHmN8HV2viYUufd_IBdtmpCeV-uZXPSN76EnKHi3LJmh4RcoN1AR-7c0m54JPN2fOCovrSc5xaGeBhTti5YMn8cFJiKEtj1pF7fTck5Tf&c=0Y-oztDM9cF4nAHANEAc_EkHNeZGJyw2nXOFffj5z9JKp9KRMWMDxA==&ch=gruiJaf4RFXBAFFC7PuwUXXGLegNcMKIk-BiO79gNxDbabQOrJyUvw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(40,24,64);font-family:Candara,Trebuchet MS,Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;font-style:italic;font-weight:normal" target="_blank">Resolution on Language of Submission and Presentation at the Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics</a><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(40,24,64);font-family:Candara,Trebuchet MS,Arial,sans-serif">, submitted to the Executive Committee by 106 members on 1 January 2023, has been voted into effect by the membership on April 3, 2023. </span>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(40,24,64);font-family:Candara,Trebuchet MS,Arial,sans-serif">Starting from the AAAL 2024 Conference, proposals may be submitted in not only English but also in at least one additional language; presentations may be delivered either in English, or in another language, or in a combination of linguistic resources of the presenter(s)' choice.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(40,24,64);font-family:Candara,Trebuchet MS,Arial,sans-serif">This is a landmark and overdue change for the AAAL conference and for the association. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(40,24,64);font-family:Candara,Trebuchet MS,Arial,sans-serif">The entire Executive Committee would like to express our deep gratitude to the 106 members who worked on the resolution and made the change possible, spearheaded by Francis Hult. Our thanks also go to the Resolutions Committee in 2023: Noha Ghali (Chair), Wendy Li, Prem Phyak, and Fabiola Ehlers-Zavala.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(40,24,64);font-family:Candara,Trebuchet MS,Arial,sans-serif">The full Resolution can be read</span><a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rsunZZmhspqjLy6XPki3s7PdZhO9s2sUAuTt30nFk5GFCXkG1Y-neRrfHmN8HV2viYUufd_IBdtmpCeV-uZXPSN76EnKHi3LJmh4RcoN1AR-7c0m54JPN2fOCovrSc5xaGeBhTti5YMn8cFJiKEtj1pF7fTck5Tf&c=0Y-oztDM9cF4nAHANEAc_EkHNeZGJyw2nXOFffj5z9JKp9KRMWMDxA==&ch=gruiJaf4RFXBAFFC7PuwUXXGLegNcMKIk-BiO79gNxDbabQOrJyUvw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(40,24,64);font-family:Candara,Trebuchet MS,Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal" target="_blank"> </a><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(40,24,64);font-family:Candara,Trebuchet MS,Arial,sans-serif">below.</span>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(40,24,64);font-family:Candara,Trebuchet MS,Arial,sans-serif">Sincerely,</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(40,24,64);font-family:Candara,Trebuchet MS,Arial,sans-serif">Agnes He, AAAL Secretary</span></div>
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