Call for papers: 27th Annual Congress, Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (topics include indigenous languages) - DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS 29 MARCH

[Scott McGinnis]

ALAA  2002
Twenty-seventh Annual Congress
Applied Linguistics Association of Australia

"Crossing boundaries through linguistic and cultural diversity"
Macquarie University, Sydney,  July 12-14, 2002

The Annual Congress of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia
will be held at Macquarie University, Sydney, from Friday evening July
12 to Sunday July 14, 2002.

The Congress will be held in parallel with the Australian Linguistics
Society Congress (ALS). Both conferences will take place on the middle
weekend of the Australian Linguistics Institute (ALI), which runs from
July 8-12 and 15-19.  No ALI sessions will be held on the conference
weekend.

Plenary speakers

Penny ECKERT  Stanford University
Howard NICHOLAS  La Trobe University, Melbourne
Brian TORODE  Dublin University
Anna WIERZBICKA  Australian National University, Canberra

Papers will be presented in the following areas:

Crosscultural issues	Language in use
Indigenous Languages	Language teaching
Language at work	Multilingualism
Language in cyberspace	Second Language Acquisition
Language in Education	Translation

Call for papers
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/Arts/departs/langcent/alaa/congress.htm
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 29 March 2002

Online Registration
http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/ali/cgi-bin/registration.cgi
Early bird rates by  30 April 2002


For further information, please contact
Dr Antonia Rubino, Convenor
antonia.rubino at italian.usyd.edu.au
(02) 9351 4608
c/o Dept. of Italian Studies, University of Sydney - NSW 2006