32.1265, Calls: Applied Ling, Gen Ling/Online

Fri Apr 9 23:46:10 UTC 2021

LINGUIST List: Vol-32-1265. Fri Apr 09 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.1265, Calls: Applied Ling, Gen Ling/Online

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Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2021 19:45:47
From: Raelke Grimmer [raelke.grimmer at cdu.edu.au]
Subject: 15th Biennial Association for Academic Language and Learning Conference 2021 – Online

Full Title: 15th Biennial Association for Academic Language and Learning Conference 2021 – Online 
Short Title: AALL Conference 2021 

Date: 17-Nov-2021 - 19-Nov-2021
Location: Online, Australia 
Contact Person: Raelke Grimmer
Meeting Email: ntbranch at aall.org.au
Web Site: https://aallconference2021.cdu.edu.au/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 02-May-2021 

Meeting Description:

The Association for Academic Language and Learning (AALL) represents and
supports academic language and learning educators in Australia. In existence
since 2005, AALL is committed to promoting and providing academic language and
learning development through policies, practices and research that build,
enhance and extend teaching and learning opportunities for all students and
staff in all higher and further education settings.

2021 conference theme: Diversity, Distance, Digitalisation: Inclusive and
supportive practices in Academic Language and Learning 

Charles Darwin University is a remote education provider in the Northern
Territory, and like other regional, remote universities across Australia,
caters to a culturally and linguistically diverse cohort of students, many of
whom study online or remotely. Our remote locations as higher education
providers paired with our non-traditional student cohorts bring with it unique
challenges for supporting students in their academic language and learning.
These challenges often relate to individual student diversity within the
cohort, distance from the university and the different educational experiences
they bring to their studies. This diversity means academic language and
learning specialists need to work collaboratively to provide equitable
education opportunities.

Therefore, we encourage enabling education academics, English language
teachers, curriculum specialists, Indigenous education practitioners and
students, who are all consumers of ALL practices, to consider sharing their
experiences at the AALL 2021 conference, to be held virtually and hosted by
Charles Darwin University from November 17-19, 2021.

Call for Papers: 

We invite abstracts for papers on the following four themes:

Diverse learning and learners: 
This theme aims to question the extent to which our practices are inclusive of
diverse learners or whether we are in fact hindering them with our current
practices. We encourage papers that consider the following:
 - Multimodal learning
 - Academic literacies across different cultural and language backgrounds
 - Supporting diverse learners and their learning, and strategies for success
 - Retention and empowerment

Distance, isolation and well-being: 
Massification of education is impacting both students and ALL staff, both
often being pushed to the margins of institutional priorities at the expense
of quality student learning and experiences. We invite papers that explore the
following topics:
 - Pedagogies of supporting distance, isolation and wellbeing
 - Social aspects of learning
 - ALL practitioners’ role in student wellbeing
 - Regional and remote experiences
 - First year experience

Fostering linguistically and culturally diverse practices in ALL: 
The drive towards equitable education for culturally and linguistically
diverse students continues to be a priority for many universities. This theme
aims to showcase papers that explore the following topics:
 - Diverse learning pedagogies and ways of knowing and learning
 - Decolonising practices
 - Multilingual/bilingual ALL practices
We especially encourage papers exploring Indigenous perspectives and practices
in ALL.

Digital transformation: 
This theme interrogates the shifting discourse around students as clients,
service consumers and tradable commodities. We encourage papers that explore
the following:
 - Online learning/ Virtual learning environments
 - Interpersonal tensions
 - Avatars
 - Gamification and technology

Papers will be 15 minutes followed by 10 minutes of questions. We also invite
abstracts for pre-recorded presentations for participants from time zones that
are not compatible with Australian Central Standard Time (ACST) to complement
the live online presentations.

We strongly encourage papers to be submitted by undergraduate and postgraduate
students to have their voices heard as part of improving our understanding of
student needs in ALL.

Please email an abstract of no more than 250 words, along with a 50 word bio,
to ntbranch at aall.org.au by 11:59pm (ACST) Sunday, 2 May.

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