8.96, FYI: Celtic lgs Teachers, BAAL Book Prize

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Subject: 8.96, FYI: Celtic lgs Teachers, BAAL Book Prize

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1)
Date:  Thu, 23 Jan 1997 08:19:26 +0000
From:  Jim/Roz Ladrew <jladrew at chesco.com>
Subject:   NAACLT'97 deadline extension

2)
Date:  Thu, 23 Jan 1997 16:20:37 GMT
From:  d.j.graddol at open.ac.uk (David Graddol)
Subject:  BAAL Book Prize 1997

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Date:  Thu, 23 Jan 1997 08:19:26 +0000
From:  Jim/Roz Ladrew <jladrew at chesco.com>
Subject:   NAACLT'97 deadline extension

NAACLT '97 (North American Association for Celtic Language Teachers)
proposals deadline has been extended to January 30, 1997.  To submit
proposals, contact Dr. Roslyn Blyn-LaDrew (jladrew at chesco.com); for
conference details contact Dr. Kenneth Nilsen (knilsen at juliet.stfx.ca)


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Date:  Thu, 23 Jan 1997 16:20:37 GMT
From:  d.j.graddol at open.ac.uk (David Graddol)
Subject:  BAAL Book Prize 1997


                     BAAL Book Prize 1997
                     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Nominations are invited for the 1997 BAAL Book Prize.

Each year the British Association for Applied Linguistics makes an
award to an outstanding book in Applied Linguistics published in
English in the previous year.

The BAAL Book Prize 1996 was awarded to:

    Deborah Cameron (1995) Verbal Hygiene. London: Routledge.

The shortlist also included:

    Mike Baynham (1995) Literacy Practices: investigating literacy in
    social contexts. London: Longman

    Ben Rampton (1995) Crossing: language and ethnicity among
    adolescents. London: Longman

    Patrick Stevenson (1995) (ed) The German Language and the Real
    World: sociolinguistic, cultural, and pragmatic perspectives
    on contemporary German. Oxford: Clarendon Press

Entries for this year's prize should be notified to the BAAL
Publications Secretary by March 3rd 1997. Nominations must be
made by publishers and four copies of each title, together with
an administration fee to the value of 25 pounds sterling will be
required. If you are the author of an important text in Applied
Linguistics (in the broadest sense) published last year then
please forward this notice to your publisher. Books published in
English outside the UK are welcomed.

The award will be announced at the BAAL Annual Meeting in
September 1997.

Entries for the Book Prize should be sent to:

David Graddol
BAAL Publications Secretary
School of Education
Open University
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
UK

Further details about the prize can be obtained from that
address or by email or fax:

(UK) + 1908 654111 (fax)
d.j.graddol at open.ac.uk


A World Wide Web site for BAAL can be found at
http://www.swan.ac.uk/cals/baal.html





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