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<p>Dear Colleagues,</p>
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<p>Below is a list of sessions (colloquia, papers, and posters) in the Language Planning and Policy Strand at the upcoming American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference in Chicago from 24-27 March 2018.</p>
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<p><strong>The Official Recognition of Signed Languages: ‘Linguistic Legitimacy’ as Language Ideology</strong><br>
Sat, March 24, 8:00 to 8:30am, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Missouri Room</p>
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<p><strong>Language Education Policy: Bottom-Up Voices and the Power of Agency</strong><br>
Sat, March 24, 8:00 to 11:00am, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago 6</p>
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<p><strong>The corpus planning of Chinese Sign Language</strong><br>
Sat, March 24, 8:35 to 9:05am, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Missouri Room</p>
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<p><strong>Historicizing the Americanization of Taiwan’s English Language Teaching: Politics, Socioeconomics, and Impact</strong><br>
Sat, March 24, 9:10 to 9:40am, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Missouri Room</p>
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<p><strong>Framing language policy of education in Galicia</strong><br>
Sun, March 25, 8:00 to 8:30am, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Ohio Room</p>
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<p><strong>Bridging the Language Policy and Second Language Acquisition Divide: An Ecological and Ethnographic Perspective</strong><br>
Sun, March 25, 8:35 to 9:05am, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Ohio Room</p>
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<p><strong>Leveraging the Prestige of English in Indigenous Education, or How the Village School Got a New Roof</strong><br>
Sun, March 25, 9:10 to 9:40am, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Ohio Room</p>
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<p><strong>Language Choice in the Internationalized University Contact Zone: A Case Study in a Research University in Taiwan</strong><br>
Sun, March 25, 4:00 to 4:30pm, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Missouri Room</p>
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<p><strong>First-year writing instructors as arbiters of language policy: Individual interpretations of policy</strong><br>
Mon, March 26, 8:00 to 8:30am, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Ohio Room</p>
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<p><strong>Uniformity or diversity: A critical discourse analysis of Chinese public reactions to language policy</strong><br>
Mon, March 26, 8:35 to 9:05am, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Ohio Room</p>
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<p><strong>“Raise Your Right Hand and Repeat After Me”: The Performance of the US Naturalization Oath of Allegiance</strong><br>
Mon, March 26, 9:10 to 9:40am, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Ohio Room</p>
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<p><strong>Ethnic and Racial Variation in English Learner (EL) Reclassification Rates: Building on Educator Expertise to Theorize Inequities</strong><br>
Mon, March 26, 9:10 to 9:40am, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Superior Room A</p>
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<p><strong>Prospects and Challenges of Indiana’s Policies and Practices for English Language Learners</strong><br>
Mon, March 26, 1:50 to 2:20pm, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Michigan Room B</p>
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<p><strong>Exploring community sense-making in U.S. language education policy implementation</strong><br>
Mon, March 26, 1:50 to 3:30pm, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Mayfair Room</p>
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<p><strong>Approaches to Teaching English as a Foreign Language: Global or Anglo-centric?</strong><br>
Mon, March 26, 3:00 to 3:30pm, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Huron Room</p>
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<p><strong>Can English Learners with Disabilities be Reclassified?</strong><br>
Mon, March 26, 4:00 to 4:30pm, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Missouri Room</p>
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<p><strong>Lingua Franca English within/without European Multilingualism</strong><br>
Mon, March 26, 4:35 to 5:05pm, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Missouri Room</p>
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<p><strong>School Accountability in the Waiver Era for English Learners: A Midwestern Narrative Review of Minnesota and Indiana</strong><br>
Tue, March 27, 8:00 to 8:30am, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Mississippi Room</p>
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<p><strong>"Policy that matters": Applying a culturally specific framework of analysis to current language policy in Vietnam</strong><br>
Tue, March 27, 9:10 to 10:40am, Sheraton Grand Chicago, River Exhibit B</p>
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<p><strong>Resisting English Only ideologies while reproducing privilege?: A critical policy analysis of the Seal of Biliteracy</strong><br>
Tue, March 27, 9:10 to 10:40am, Sheraton Grand Chicago, River Exhibit B</p>
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<p><strong>The Test of the English for International Communication (TOEIC):a De Facto Language Policy in South Korea</strong><br>
Tue, March 27, 9:10 to 10:40am, Sheraton Grand Chicago, River Exhibit B</p>
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<p><strong>#Mot-dièse or the story of hashtag in France: Prescription and practice on French Twitter</strong><br>
Tue, March 27, 10:10 to 10:40am, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Erie Room</p>
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<p><strong>Linguistic Landscapes for Sustainable Cities and Communities: Implementational Space in United Nations Development Targets and Indicators</strong><br>
Tue, March 27, 11:55am to 12:25pm, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Columbus Room A</p>
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<p>The full AAAL program is available here:</p>
<p><a class="OWAAutoLink" href="https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aaal/aaal18/">https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aaal/aaal18/</a><br>
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