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Proposals will be evaluated and the conference will be organized according to the following areas of interest:
- Adult language learning
- Child language
- Communication in the professions
- Contrastive linguistics and error analysis
- Discourse analysis
- Educational technology and language learning
- Evaluation, assessment, and testing
- Foreign language teaching methodology and teacher education
- Forensic linguistics
- Immersion education
- Interpreting and translating
- Language and business
- Language and ecology
- Language and education in multilingual settings
- Language and gender
- Language and the media
- Language contact and language change
- Language for special purposes
- Language planning
- Learner autonomy in language learning
- Lexicography and lexicology
- Literacy
- Mother tongue education
- Psycholinguistics
- Rhetoric and stylistics
- Second language acquisition
- Sign language
INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: 20 minutes for presentation; 10 minutes for discussion.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Posters are for one-on-one discussion of work in progress. Posters are effective for presenting data visually (charts, graphs, or tables). A block of time will be designated when presenters are available to discuss their posters. Specific guidelines for posters will be provided upon acceptance.
SYMPOSIA: Symposia are scheduled for three-hour blocks. Organizers of symposia may divide their time as they choose, but time should be allocated for opening and closing remarks, presentations, discussants (if included), and extended audience response. Organizers serve as the liaisons between participants and the program committee.
REVIEW AND RATING CRITERIA FOR PROPOSALS: Abstracts for individual papers and posters will be evaluated by a team of reviewers in each of the following categories:
- Appropriateness and significance of the topic
- Presentation of original research
- Clear statement of question, data and collection procedures, and of analytic approaches
- Manner of presentation (indicative of a clear and well-organized presentation that can be presented in the allotted time)
In addition to these criteria, symposium proposals will be evaluated by a team of reviewers in each of the following categories:
- Presentation of original and on-going research studies OR differing or dissenting perspectives on an important issue
- Coherence and complementarity of the papers
- Manner of presentation (indicative of careful planning for the implementation of the symposium including a significant amount of time for discussion of the presentations and audience participation)
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Each individual may submit only one abstract‚ whether of sole or multiple authorship and whether an individual paper, a poster, or as part of a symposium.
- Each person may appear in the program only once as a presenter of an individual paper, poster, or symposium paper; in addition, the same individual may appear in the program once as a discussant and once as a symposium organizer.
- All proposals (for individual papers, symposium papers, and poster sessions) are assumed to represent original and unpublished work (with the exception of material from publications in press).
- Proposal submissions from individuals who will not attend the AILA 2005 conference are discouraged. Substitute readers are disadvantaged in discussing papers with the audience.
- Presenters who know in advance that they cannot attend the conference are requested to withdraw their proposals, thus opening a conference slot for someone who can attend. If unforeseen circumstances dictate that, at the last minute, a presenter cannot attend the conference, a substitute reader will be permitted.
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