Wayne E. Wright wayne.wright@utsa.edu<BR><BR><B><I>Bernard Spolsky <bspolsky@gmail.com></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR clear=all> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">AILA has now approved the establishment of a Research Network on Language Policy. </FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The Network will be open to any AILA member conducting research or teaching in the various fields of language policy and management. As a first step, two events will be sponsored by the new ReN, one at the Sociolinguistics Symposium in Limerick in July 2006 and a second at the ALAA meeting in Brisbane about the same time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At these meetings, plans will be developed
for continuing activities of the Network including the 2008 AILA Convention, and an Organizer will be elected. </FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The organizing committee for the ReN is Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, University of Bristol; Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University; Jasone Cenoz, University of the Basque Country; Richard Baldauf, University of Queensland; and Bernard Spolsky (emeritus, Bar-Ilan University) is Interim Organizer.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman">To be kept informed, send an e-mail with your name and e-mail address on the first line to Bernard Spolsky </FONT><A href="mailto:bspolsky@gmail.com"><FONT face="Times New Roman">bspolsky@gmail.com</FONT></A></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT
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