AAAL 2009 Abstract Submission Announcement

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AAAL 2009 Abstract Submission Announcement
The 2009 conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) will be held March 21-24 at the Denver Marriott Tech Center, Denver, CO.

The 2009 conference's plenary presentations and invited colloquia (see below) address the theme of the relevance of applied linguistics-to the real world and to other fields of scientific inquiry. Proposals addressing this theme are particularly encouraged, but proposals are welcome in all of the following topic strands:

Analysis of discourse and interaction
Assessment and evaluation
Bilingual, immersion, heritage, and language minority education
Language and ideology
Language and learner characteristics
Language and technology
Language cognition and brain research
Language maintenance and revitalization
Language, culture, socialization, and pragmatics
Language, planning, and policy
Reading, writing, and literacy
Second and foreign language pedagogy
Second language acquisition, language acquisition, and attrition
Sociolinguistics
Text analysis (written discourse)
Translation and interpretation

The abstract submission deadline is August 15, 2008.

To login and submit your proposal, go to:
http://www.aaal.org/aaal2009/index.php?ID=8

For hotel reservation information, go to:
http://www.aaal.org/aaal2009/index.php?ID=7

For conference registration and rates, go to:
http://www.aaal.org/aaal2009/index.php?ID=5

The early registration deadline date is February 20, 2009.

AAAL Business Office