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Applied Linguistics Association of Australia National Conference

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The School of Education at Curtin University is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the 2012 Applied Linguistics Association of Australia’s National Conference on 12, 13, and 14 November 2012.

For times and venues, please see the program here.

The Conference theme is:

Evolving Paradigms: Language and Applied Linguistics in a Changing World

The Conference streams are:

  • Research Methods and Methodologies
  • Language Education
  • Emerging Technologies
  • Applied Linguistics and Globalisation
  • Language, Culture, and Society
  • Language and Literacy
  • Translating and Interpreting
  • Language Development
  • Language Testing and Assessment
  • Language Planning and Policy

The Keynote Speakers and Keynote Themes are:

12 November: Language and Global Communication

Professor Ryuko Kubota
Ryuko Kubota is a Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada.  She has previously taught in the United States and Japan. She has been involved in teaching EFL and Japanese as a foreign language as well as in second language teacher education. Her research is focused on issues of culture, race, multiculturalism, and critical pedagogies in second/foreign language education. She is an editor of Race, Culture, and Identities in Second Language: Exploring Critically Engaged Practice (2009, Routledge). She has also published in such journals as Journal of Second Language Writing, Canadian Modern Language Review, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education, Linguistics and Education, Modern Language Journal, TESOL Quarterly, Written Communication, and World Englishes.

13 November: Language and the Media

Phillip Adams AO
Phillip Adams’ radio programme Late Night Live is broadcast twice a day over the 250-station network  of ABC’s Radio National and around the world on Radio Australia and the World Wide Web. Adams has interviewed over 15,000 of the world’s most prominent politicians, philosophers, economists, scientists, theologians, historians, archaeologists, novelists, and scholars. Writing in The Monthly, Robert Manne has said that Adams is: “The most remarkable broadcaster in the history of this country.” For almost 50 years his columns in major newspapers (he currently writes for The Australian newspaper) have provoked discussion and outrage. He is also the author of over 20 books. Honours awarded to Adams include two Orders of Australia, the Senior ANZAC Fellowship, the Australian Humanist of the Year, the Republican of the Year 2005, the Golden Lion at Cannes, the Longford Award (the highest award of the Australian film industry), a Walkley award, a UN Media prize, four Honorary Doctorates and the Responsibility in Journalism Award at New York University. In 2006 he received the Human Rights Medal from the Australian Government’s Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission. In 2008 he was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

14 November: Language and Evolution

Professor Rob Brooks
Rob Brooks is Professor of Evolution and Director of the Evolution and Ecology Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. He is an Evolutionary Biologist who thinks about sex for a living. Topics  he has thought and written about include the evolution of mate choice, the costs of being attractive, the reason animals age, and the links between sex, diet, obesity and death. Together with his fabulous research group and collaborators, Rob explores the evolutionary and ecological consequences of sexual reproduction. At the moment he is especially interested in the interactions between evolution and economics, the evolution of human life histories, the reasons for sex differences in aging and longevity, the unfolding obesity crisis, the relationship between evolution and equity feminism, the evolution of human bodies, the purpose of Rock ‘n’ Roll, and what we can and cannot infer about morality from studying the natural world. His first book for a popular audience, Sex, Genes & Rock ‘n’ Roll: How Evolution has Shaped the Modern World (New South Books) was published in 2011.

The Call for Papers for the Conference will be issued in April 2012. Read more about the Conference.

For more information, please contact the Conference Convenor: Dr Chris Conlan, School of Education, Curtin University, Phone +61 8 9266 2386, Email: C.Conlan@curtin.edu.au


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