2003 Topic Areas

• Analysis of discourse & interaction
• Applied linguistics research methodology
• Assessment & evaluation
• Bilingual, immersion, heritage, and language minority education
• Language acquisition & language attrition
• Language & ideology
• Language & learner characteristics
• Language & technology
• Language, cognition, & the brain
• Language, culture, and socialization
• Reading, writing, & literacy
• Second & foreign language pedagogy
• Sociolinguistics
• Text analysis
• Translation & interpretation

Notes

• This is the second revision of the AAAL topic areas in as many years. The goal is to establish "strands" that represent the diversity of topics in applied linguistics with reasonably transparent labels that will result in both a more even spread of submissions across topic areas and coherence within strands. It may not be possible for all these goals to be achieved simultaneously, but we hope that you find the topic areas this year to be an improvement.
• If you previously submitted to "rhetoric & stylistics" or "discourse analysis, written," consider submitting to the strand "Text analysis."
• The topical area "Sociolinguistics" is intended to include such topics as language attitudes, societal multilingualism, regional & social variation, pidgins & creoles, language policy, and language planning. Topics such as cross-cultural pragmatics, conversation analysis and other areas of research that might be considered sociolinguistic in a broad sense may now fall more appropriately within the topic area of "Analysis of discourse and interaction" or (depending on your focus) "Language & ideology" (which is intended to encompass issues of power, gender, ethnicity, class, and identity, as well as critical linguistics).
• Please send all questions, comments, or suggestions regarding the AAAL topic areas to the 2003 Program Chair, Richard Schmidt, at schmidt@hawaii.edu.

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