CFP: British Association for Applied Linguistics 2008

[Francis Hult]

41ST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS

Theme: "Taking the Measure of Applied Linguistics"

11 - 13 September 2008
Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK

BAAL 2008 will be held in Wales' second city of Swansea, situated on
the South Wales coast. The University campus is located in coastal
parkland, between the five-mile-long beach of Swansea bay and 100
acres of parks and gardens. In 2005, Swansea University received the
Times Higher Education Supplement Award for the UK's Best Student
Experience. The Department of Applied Linguistics at Swansea is a
dynamic research centre, and has had a long association with BAAL. The
vibrant city centre, with its new cultural and culinary waterfront
developments, is within reach of the campus by foot or by bus. The
nearest airport, outside Cardiff, is served by regular flights with
low-cost airlines from cities across Britain and Europe, including
Belfast, Glasgow, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Cork, and Dublin.


PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Charles Alderson, Lancaster University
Ben Rampton, King's College London
Alison Wray, Cardiff University


CONFERENCE ORGANISERS:
Tess Fitzpatrick (t.fitzpatrick at swansea.ac.uk)
Jim Milton (j.l.milton at swansea.ac.uk)
Department of Applied Linguistics
Tel: +44 1792 602540
Fax: +44 1792 602545

Nanele Lewis (accommodation & organisation): conferences at swansea.ac.uk
BAAL conferences webpage: http://www.baal.org.uk/confs.htm


CALL FOR PAPERS:
Abstracts are welcome in any area of Applied Linguistics that fits
within the theme of the conference - "Taking the Measure of Applied
Linguistics". This theme is deliberately intended to be inclusive and
might include papers which take stock of Applied Linguistics
generally, consider attempts to quantify language and language
learning which is one important element of Applied Linguistics, or
make the case that non-quantified language descriptions can be equally
valid and useful in linguistic applications.

*Deadline for receipt of Abstracts: 31 March 2008*

Please send one electronic copy to BAAL08 at ling.ed.ac.uk in an email
entitled "BAAL08_oneinitialsurname", e.g. "BAAL08_dsmith", in an
attachment also entitled "BAAL08_oneinitialsurname". An e-mail
confirmation of receipt of abstract will be sent within a week.

If you prefer to submit your abstract by post, please send four copies
of your abstract to: Erik Schleef, Linguistics and English Language,
40 George Square, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9LL,
Scotland, UK.

Label and format your abstract like this:
-Title in bold
-Name, affiliation, address, telephone number and email
  (if sending paper copies, put this information on only one copy)
-Text 300 words maximum (including the title and references)
-Single-spaced
-Justified
-Times New Roman 12

Indicate the type of abstract that you are submitting: individual
presentation, poster, SIG presentation, or colloquium.

-20-minute individual presentation for the parallel sessions.

-Poster. We strongly encourage the submission of abstracts for
posters. We aim to raise the profile of posters at our conference
since we value them as equal to other forms of presentation and we
believe that they tend to receive more feedback than individual
papers. All posters will be listed in the book of abstracts and there
will be a dedicated area and time slot for discussion of poster
presentations. There will also be a prize for best poster displayed at
the conference. The winner will receive £ 50 and a book.

-Presentation for a Special Interest Group (SIG) track. If you believe
your paper is of interest to a SIG track, please clearly annotate it:
'of interest to X SIG'. The SIG may then wish to include your paper in
a track at the annual meeting. BAAL has eight Special Interest Groups.
They are UK Linguistic Ethnography Forum, Corpus Linguistics,
Psycholinguistics, Multimodality, Language Learning and Teaching,
Language in Africa, Gender and Language, Assessment

-Proposed colloquium paper (this is submitted along with the other
papers in the colloquium, and the title of the colloquium on the
conference theme).


GUIDELINES:
1. Individual papers have 25 minutes: 20 for the presentation, 5 for
questions.

2. SIG tracks and colloquia have half a day and a minimum of four papers.

3. Colloquia proposers should plan their half day in four slots, in
step with the individual paper slots. If they wish to have a larger
number of papers, they may fit two papers into what would normally be
a single slot. Colloquia papers should cohere. The order of the papers
should not be changed after acceptance.

4. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously.

5. Each individual paper, colloquium and poster is rated by three
reviewers: one Executive Committee and two Local Organising Committee
members.

6. SIG track papers are also rated by three reviewers: two from the
SIG and one Executive Committee member.


INDICATE WHETHER YOU WANT A SCHOLARSHIP:
Send your scholarship application along with your abstract by 31 March
2008. Forms are available here: http://www.baal.org.uk/join_funding.htm.

BAAL offers ten UK student scholarships to postgraduate students based
in the UK. The scholarships cover registration and accommodation. BAAL
also offers two International scholarships, one of which is the Chris
Brumfit International Scholarship. These are worth £1,000, which goes
towards registration, accommodation, meals and travel.

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