Other Conferences

UPCOMING CONFERENCES IN NEW ZEALAND and AUSTRALIA

Linguistics Society of New Zealand
19th Biennial Conference
17-18 November 2011
(Pre-conference workshops 16 November 2011)
More information on the conference website: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/research/nzlingsoc2011.aspx

Crossing Boundaries
4th Biennial International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching
18-20 November 2011
Auckland New Zealand
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
Victoria University of Wellington

Under the auspices of the International TBLT Consortium and the Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics, University of Auckland.

International task-based language teaching conferences aim to bring together researchers and educators with interests in language tasks and task-based teaching from around the world. TBLT conferences, held biennially, have been hosted by Katolieke Universiteit Leuven (2005), University of Hawai’i (2007), and Lancaster University (2009). The 2011 conference will be the first international TBLT conference to be held in the southern hemisphere. The theme of the conference, “Crossing Boundaries” encourages us to explore different perspectives on tasks and language learning and make connections between theory and practice, teaching and research.

Invited speakers for this event include Rod Ellis, Kim McDonough, Scott Thornbury, Lourdes Ortega, Peter Robinson, Martin Bygate, and William Littlewood.

More information on the conference website: http://www.confer.co.nz/tblt2011/

LED 2011
3rd International Conference on Language, Education and Diversity
Wednesday 23 – Saturday 26 November 2011
Owen G Glenn Building, University of Auckland, New Zealand
WEB: http://www.led.ac.nz

Applied Linguistics Associations of Australia (ALAA) and New Zealand (ALANZ) conference
Applied Linguistics as a Meeting Place
30 November – 2 December 2011
University of Canberra and the Australian National University
Download ALAA-ALANZ First Call for Papers

Canberra langfest 2011
27 November – 9 December 2011
Hosted by the Australian National University and the University of Canberra

Including:

  • ASFS Conference, 27 – 28 November 2011
  • Language and Culture Conference, 29 November 2011
  • ALAA-Postgraduate Student Workshop, 29 November 2011
  • ALAA-ALANZ 2nd Combined Conference, 30 November – 2 December 2011
  • Special Events Language and the Law, 1 – 2 December 2011
  • ALTA Conference, 2 – 3 December 2011
  • ALS Conference, 2 – 4 December 2011
  • ALS Graduate Master Classes, 5 – 9 December 2011

WEB: http://www.led.ac.nz

NZDC3
3rd New Zealand Discourse Conference
5-7 December 2011
AUT University, Auckland City, New Zealand
WEB:http://www.aut.ac.nz/research/research-institutes/icdc/conferences/NZDC3

Keynote speakers:

    Teun A.van Dijk
    Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, SpainMonica Heller
    University of Toronto, Canada

CLESOL 2012 Conference
(em>The 13th National Conference for Community Languages and ESOL, brought to you by TESOLANZ and CLANZ.
4-7 October 2012
International Pacific College, Palmerston North, New Zealand
WEB: www.clesol.org.nz

The CLESOL conference provides opportunities to hear the latest research and trends in language teaching and learning from early childhood to adult education. The theme for the 2012 conference is Emerging opportunities in new learning spaces: He akoranga hou, he huarahi hou. This reflects a variety of contemporary challenges that exist for both learners and their teachers, such as engaging in blended learning situations, integrating content and language, increasing intercultural interactions, and building relevant needs analysis and leadership models in different teaching/learning contexts.

UPCOMING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA 2011)
August 23-28, 2011
Beijing Foreign Studies University, China
http://www.aila2011.org/

Second Language Research Forum (SLRF 2011)
October 13-16, 2011
Iowa State University, USA
http://apling.public.iastate.edu/slrf2011/

American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference
March 24-27, 2012
Boston, MA
http://www.aaal.org/