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　　Event

　　AAAL 2007 Annual Conference

　　Dates

　　April 21 to 24, 2007

　　Venue

　　Hilton Hotel, Costa Mesa, California, US

　　Organizer

　　The American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)

　　Plenary speakers and speeches

　　*Teaching & Assessing L2 Pragmatics: What Can We Expect from Learners by professor Andrew D. Cohen, University of Minnesota;

　　*Defining, Researching, and Teaching Genre: Conflicts and Convergences by professor Ann Johns, San Diego State University;

　　*Reading: The Imperative Challenge to Applied Linguistics by professor William Labov, University of Pennsylvania;

　　*The Evolving Interface of US. Spanish: Language Mixing as Hybrid Vigor by professor John Lipski, Pennsylvania State University

　　*SLA & US. National Foreign Language Policy by professor Richard Schmidt, University of Hawaii;

　　*The Discursive Construction of Politeness/Impoliteness by professor Richard J. Watts, University of Bern, Switzerland.

　　Topic areas

　　*Language education;

　　*Acquisition and loss;

　　*Bilingualism;

　　*Discourse analysis;

　　*Rhetoric and stylistics;

　　*Language for special purposes;

　　*Psycholinguistics;

　　*Second and foreign language pedagogy;

　　*Language assessment;

　　*Language policy and planning.

　　Background information

　　Founded in 1977, AAAL is a professional organization of scholars who are interested in and actively contribute to the multi-disciplinary field of applied linguistics. The AAAL conference is known for its in-depth symposia and focused workshops on key issues in applied linguistics and access to the latest publications via the book exhibit.

　　For more information, please go to http://www.aaal.org/aaal2007/colloquia.htm.