Dear Colleagues,

At the end of the 2017 AILA World Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Claire Kramsch handed the baton of the AILA presidency over to me. I am happy to take up this baton – and very honored to do so. There are three reasons for me to feel this way: First, it is the baton of AILA, a unique organization in the academic landscape; second, it is a hand-over from a proven team to a promising one; and third, exciting challenges are awaiting us. Please let me briefly elaborate on th [ ... ]

Il 6-7 ottobre, presso l'Università per Stranieri di Siena, si svolgerà la conferenza "Dieci anni di didattica dell'italiano a studenti cinesi: risultati, esperimenti e proposte".   Il programma e il modulo per l'iscrizione (attivo fino al 25 settembre) sono reperibili presso il sito dedicato: https://italianostudenticinesi.wordpress.com/

Inoltriamo la seguente comunicazione: We are pleased to announce that Register Studies, a new journal from John
Benjamins, is now accepting submissions. Register Studies is highly
interdisciplinary, welcoming scholarship on register from areas such as
corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, applied
linguistics, Systemic Functional Linguistics, language teaching, and
computational linguistics. Research on English-language registers,
analyses of registers in languages other t [ ... ]

Exploring Language Education (ELE): Global and Local Perspectives.
Stockholm University, June 2018 This conference employs a broad definition of language education, aiming to bring together scholars working in different areas of the field. It will be held in Stockholm during June 18-20, 2018, and it is our intention to make this a recurring event in the future, either in Stockholm or in other parts of the world. The conference is intended to reflect a variety of perspectives on language educati [ ... ]

È disponibile online il numero inaugurale della rivista Instructed Second Language Acquisition. Instructed Second Language Acquisition  

Diffondiamo la seguente comunicazione pervenuta dal team editoriale del Languages, Society & Policy Journal: Dear colleagues,   we would like to draw your attention to the new online and open-access Languages, Society and Policy Journal, which aims to connect research in languages and linguistics with policy through publishing  the latest academic peer-reviewed research in jargon-free, short and accessible papers. Edited by a multidisciplinary team, LSP is a unique online resou [ ... ]

Inoltriamo con ppiacere la seguente comunicazione: Dear all,   It is pleasure for me to write this message.  This is Rieko Nishida writing from Osaka University, Japan. I would like to inform you upcoming information for Applied Linguistic Conference and Call for Proposals as follows.  I appreciated if you could be active networking for the following conference.   The third international Psychology of Language Learning conference (PLL3) will be held at Waseda University, Tokyo,  [ ... ]

The Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, Ministry of Education and Culture, Cyprus, in collaboration with the University of Cyprus, announce the 2nd International Scientific Conference on “Literacy and Contemporary Society”, titled "Spaces, Discourses, Practices". The Conference will be held on 28-29 November 2017, at the "Filoxenia" Conference Center in Nicosia. CALL FOR PAPERS Informational Leaflet  

Per leggere gli ultimi aggiornamenti relativi alla riunione CUN di agosto scarica il documento in PDF: CUN - agosto 2017

Atene, 10 luglio 2017 UNIVERSITÀ NAZIONALE E CAPODISTRIACA DI ATENE Dipartimento di Lingua e Letteratura italiana     Cari colleghi, care colleghe, ho il piacere e l’onore di comunicarvi che Venerdi 24 Novembre c.a. avrà luogo presso il nostro Ateneo la II edizione del Convegno di Studi Italoellenica. Ελληνοϊταλικές συναντήσεις για τη γλώσσα και τη μετάφραση / Italoellenica: Incontri sulla lingua e sulla traduzione, che quest’an [ ... ]