
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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