Conferences and Their Connections to Recent SLS Classes

1. big four
2. applied linguistics
3. bilingualism
4. cognitive linguistics
5. conversation analysis
6. corpus linguistics
7. language policy
8. language testing
9. minority languages
10. pedagogy
11. phonetics and phonology
12. pragmatics
13. psycholinguistics
14. second language writing
15. sociolinguistics
16. cognitive sociolinguistics
17. second language acquisition
18. task-based language teaching
19. technology and CALL
20. teacher education

Big Four

• AAAL - American Association for Applied Linguistics
• SLRF - Second Language research Forum
• TESOL - Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
• BUCLD - Boston University Conference on Language Development

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Applied Linguistics

• AAAL - American Association for Applied Linguistics
• ACLA / CAAL - Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics
• AESLA - Spanish Applied Linguistics Association
• ALANZ - The Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand
• Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA)
• Applied Linguistics for Specialized Discourse
• BAAL - British Association for Applied Linguistics
• Extracting and Using Constructions in NLP - Workshop
• GESPIN 2009: Gesture and Speech in Interaction, Pozna September, 24th - 26th. | GESPIN
• Georgetown University Round Table (GURT)
• International Conference on Applied Linguistics
• IADA - International Conference on Dialogue Analysis
• ILLS 1: LOL - Illinois Language and Linguistics Society 1: Language Online
• International Linguistic Association
• ISLS - International Society for Language Studies
• PAAL - Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics
• SLRF - Second Language research Forum
• Student Conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature

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Bilingualism

SLS 380

• First & Second languages
• International Symposium on Bilingualism
• National Association for Bilingual Education

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Cognitive Linguistics

• BUCLD - Boston University Conference on Language Development
• CUNY Conference
• Cognitive Science Society
• Language and Development Conference
• Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference
• Swedish Association for Language and Cognition

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Conversation Analysis

SLS 750-2 (Kasper)

• International Conference on Conversation Analysis

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Corpus Linguistics

• AACL - American Association for Corpus Linguistics
• AFLiCo - Association Francaise de Linguistique Cognitive
• Corpus Linguistics Conference - University of Liverpool
• SLOVKO - NLP, Corpus Linguistics, Corpus Based Grammar Research

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Language Policy

SLS-760 (Schmidt)

• ESEA - English changing Implications for policy, teaching, and research
• Language policy, Planning, & Support
• LPLL - Language policy & Language Learning

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Language Testing

SLS 490, SLS 630, SLS 631, SLS 671

• ALTE - Association of Language Testers in Europe
• ECOLT - East Coast Organization of Language Testers
• European Association for Language Testing
• European Association for Language Testing and Assessment
• International Language Testing Association
• Language Testing Research Colloquium
• LREC - Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
• MwALT- Midwest Association of Language Testers

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Minority Languages

SLS 430

• ICML - International Conference on Minority Languages XII :: Information
• ICLDC 2009 :: Supporting Small Languages Together
• National Council Of Less Commonly Taught Languages
• Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics Conference

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Pedagogy

SLS-610, SLS-613, SLS-620, SLS-630, SLS-631, SLS-690, SLS-678, SLS-680P (Day), SLS-680P (McKay), SLS-680P (Gibson), SLS-730 (Crookes), SLS-730 (Norris)

• ABC - Association for Business Communication
• Asia TEFL
• Asian ESP Conference
• BAAL - Language Learning & Teaching SIG
• BALEAP - British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes
• CATJ - Central Association of Teachers of Japanese
• ELT-CON - International English Language Teaching Conference
• HALT-HawaiiAssociation of Language Teachers
• HITESOL– Hawaii TESOL
• ILLC - International Language Learning Conference
• International Conference on English Learning and Teaching & Learning
• International Conference on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
• IOLC - International Online Language Conference
• JACET - The Japan Association of College English Teachers
• JALT - Japan Association for Language Teaching
• JALT Pan-SIG (special interest groups)
• KATE - Korea Association of Teachers of English
• MELTA (Malaysia English Language Teachers’ Association)
• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• NECTFL: Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
• New York State TESOL
• NYSAFLT - New York State Association of Language Teachers
• SWCOLT - Southwest Conference on Language Teaching
• TESOL - Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages

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Phonetics and Phonology

SLS 460

• Manchester Phonology Meeting
• PaPI 09 - Phonetics and Phonology

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Pragmatics

SLS 730

• DiaHolmia - Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue
• IPRA - International Pragmatics Association Conference
• LIAR - Linguistic Impoliteness And Rudeness
• PLL - Pragmatics and Language Learning
• XPrag 2009 - Experimental Pragmatics

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Psycholinguistics

SLS 673

• ACL-IJCNLP - Association for Computational Linguistics
• Association for Computational Linguistics
• EACL - European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
• PIF2009 - Psycholinguistics
• Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

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Second Language Writing

SLS 614

• Symposium on Second Language Writing

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Sociolinguistics

SLS-660, SLS-678, SLS-760 (Higgins)

• Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads Conference (ACS)

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Cognitive Sociolinguistics

• Culture, Language and Social Practice
• IAWE - International Association for World Englishes
• Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse
• International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca :: Modern Languages, School of Humanities
• International Conference on Languages & Cultures in Contact
• Language, Interaction, and Social Organization
• SLE - Global Languages Local Languages

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Second Language Acquisition

SLS-650, SLS-730 (Schmidt), SLS-750 (Ortega)

• European Second Language Association
• GALA 2009 - Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition
• GASLA - Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
• ICFSLA - Individual Learner Differences in Second Language Acquisition
• SLA Graduate Student Symposium
• Third language acquisition

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Task-Based Language Teaching

SLS-680P (Norris)

• TBLT - Task-Based Language Teaching

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Technology & CALL

680P (Gonzalez-Lloret)

• APAMALL - Asia-Pacific Association of Multimedia Assisted Language Learning
• CALICO - Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium
• EUROCALL: The European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning
• GLoCALL - Globalization & Localization in CALL
• IALLT - International Association for Language Learning Technology
• IATEFL - International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
• Impact of Media and New technologies on languages
• JALT CALL Conference
• TESOL - CALL-IS - Computer-Assisted Language Learning Interest Section
• uCALL - User-centered Computer Assisted Language Learning
• LLCMC - Language Learning in Computer Mediated Communities

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Teacher Education

• eLearning Africa 2009 / International Conference on ICT for Development
• Education and Training. An Annual Event for Building eLearning Capacities in Africa.
• NCLRC - International Language Teacher Education Conference
• International ELT Conference on Teacher Education and Development

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