British Association for Applied Linguistics, 57th Annual Conference (BAAL 2024)

About the event

Our conference theme is Applied Linguistics in contemporary contexts: practices, approaches, and future directions.

This is an invitation to explore and discuss what applied linguistics has to offer in terms of understanding contemporary issues and challenges. The theme is an opportunity for us to reflect on the changing practices and approaches that contemporary contexts require us to adapt to, as well as looking to the future to explore what roles we see applied linguistics playing in our increasingly interdisciplinary worlds.

We particularly encourage submissions that engage with multilingualism, the role of applied linguistics in interdisciplinary research, social justice, and advancing technologies in social, education and workplace contexts.

Keynote speakers 

• Professor Uju Anya, Carnegie Mellon University
• Professor Rodney Jones, University of Reading
• Professor Bonny Norton, University of British Columbia
• Professor Julia Snell, University of Leeds

New to the conference this year is a final discussion panel where our invited speakers will reflect on the key themes and conversations of the conference. Our invited panellists are:

• Professor Kristina Hultgren, The Open University
• Professor Nancy Kula, University of Leiden
• Professor Constant Leung, King’s College London
• Dr Colin Reilly, University of Stirling

About the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)

BAAL is a professional association, based in the UK, which provides a forum for people interested in language and applied linguistics. BAAL organises scientific meetings, and publishes a newsletter and conference proceedings. We support applied linguistic activity via funding, special interest groups, an annual book prize, seminars in collaboration with Cambridge University Press and a series of researcher development workshops.

We maintain close links to institutions and organisations with an interest in applied linguistics. BAAL is affiliated to AILA, the International Association of Applied Linguistics. BAAL is a registered charity and members of BAAL are automatically members of AILA.

BAAL Currently has 17 Special Interest Groups (SIGS) and they are:

• Corpus Linguistics
• Health and Science Communication
• Intercultural communication Language and New Media
• Language in Africa Language
• Learning and Teaching Language Policy
• Language, Gender and Sexuality
• LEF (Linguistic Ethnography Forum)
• LKALE (Linguistics and Knowledge about Language in Education)
• Multilingualism
• PAWBL Professional, Academic and Work-based Literacies
• Research Synthesis in Applied Linguistics
• Social Justice for Language Education
• Testing, Evaluation and Assessment (TEA)
• Vocabulary
• Language Curriculum