Event

　　American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2008 Annual Conference

　　Dates

　　March 29 — April 1, 2008

　　Venue

　　Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC, US

　　Organizer

　　American Association for Applied Linguistics

　　Special symposia

　　* Translating research into effective advocacy

　　* Federal funding sources for research in applied linguistics

　　* Modeling representation of foreign language education at the federal level in the United States

　　Plenary speakers

　　* Jan Blommaert, professor, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

　　* Tracey Derwing, professor of Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) in Educational Psychology, University of Alberta, Canada

　　* Murray Munro, professor of linguistics and director of TESL, Simon Fraser University, Canada

　　* Zoltan Dornyei, professor of psycholinguistics, University of Nottingham, UK

　　* Nancy H. Hornberger, professor of education, University of Pennsylvania, US

　　* Dennis R. Preston, distinguished professor, Department of English, Michigan State University, US

　　Invited colloquia

　　* Redefining the specific in language for specific purposes: Insights from genre theory, corpus linguistics and critical ethnography

　　* Exploring the neurocognition of second language processing

　　* Language learners with special education needs

　　* Fluency, accuracy and complexity in second language acquisition: theoretical and methodological perspectives

　　* Learning to read in a first and a second language

　　* Issues related to language assessment, migration and citizenship

　　Contact

　　For more information, go to http://www.aaal.org