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<div align="right" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px 6.9pt 8.3pt 0px;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><b>British Association for Applied Linguistics</b></span></font></span></font></div>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><b>Language in Africa Special Interest Group</b></span></font><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b> </b></span></font><font size="6"><span style="font-size: 22pt;"><b>LiA
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<div align="left" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 9.6pt 5.95pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><b>Annual Conference: Friday May 10th 2019, 10am – 5.30pm</b></span></font></span></font></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px 2.6pt 0px 0.5pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Venue: School of Languages and Applied Linguistics,</span></font></span></font></div>
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<div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 14pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></font><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">'</span></font><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Language
and Decolonisation in 21</span></font><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><sup>st</sup></span></font><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> Century Africa’</span></font></b></span></font></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px 2.75pt 6.45pt 0px;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font size="4" color="#222222"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Plenary speaker: Professo</span></font><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">r
Rosemary Wildsmith-Cromarty</span></font></span></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 14.9pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="2" color="#343434"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Professor Wildsmith-Cromarty is Professor
of Applied Linguistics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. </span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 2.2pt 13.7pt 0.5pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>ABSTRACTS</b> of up to <b>250 words</b> for 20 minute presentations are now invited, to be sent to Goodith White, Convenor, at: <font color="#0070C0"><b><u>anne.goodithwhite@ucd.ie</u></b></font>,
cc <font color="blue"><u>c.reilly.1@research.gla.ac.uk</u></font> <b>no later than February 15</b><font size="-1"><b><sup>th</sup></b></font><b> 2019.</b><font color="red"> </font>We also invite proposals for posters. As in previous years, it may be possible
for a small number of people to deliver their papers via Skype from Africa.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 14pt;"><font size="5"><b><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Language and decolonisation in 21st century Africa</span></font></b></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 2.2pt 13.55pt 0.5pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The 2019 LiA meeting aims to bring together researchers to present and discuss current research on the role of language – at the levels of policy, planning, education,
social practice and literature – in the long and complex process of cultural decolonisation in the African continent.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 2.2pt 15.95pt 0.5pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The primary objective of the meeting is to explore what current research has to say on how languages in Africa are faring in the 21<font size="-1"><sup>st</sup></font> century
within the ongoing process of cultural decolonisation, as it is pulled by the competing forces of national identity, social equality, ethnic neutrality and globalisation. Topics for papers could consider (among other things):</span></font></div>
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<li>What are the latest policy developments with regard to the tensions between former imperial languages and local languages in different African countries?</li><li>What are the issues and challenges in the adoption of local or global languages in education and academic research?</li><li>How do different languages co-exist in daily social practices, including digital communication? </li><li>How are languages used at work?</li><li>How has the debate evolved for the creation of literature, songs and films? </span></font></li></ul>
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