BAAL: British Association for Applied Linguistics

🎓 ECRs & postgrads: Got a poster on #GenAI & Language Education? Apply for one of 4 £100 travel awards to present at our @__BAAL /CUP seminar on 6 Jun 2025 @UniStrathclyde! 📅 Deadline: 22 May 👉 Details: lltsigbaal.weebly.com/updates.html #AIinEd #TESOL #BAAL #AppliedLinguistics

Interested in #educationpolicy ? Come join us on this in-person talk at @MorayHouse #policy #education #phdresearch

Save MLANG at Cardiff Petition: change.org/p/save-mlang-a…? Sign now to oppose the proposed closures to modern languages at Cardiff University

BAAL Members- Meet your EC event is TODAY at 11am UK time. See BAALMail for Zoom link, or contact @wicaksono We look forward to seeing you there!

Call open! 58th Annual Conference of the British Association for Applied Linguistics invites you to share your research! University of Glasgow 4-6th Sept 2025 Theme: Applied linguistics in the face of global challenges and local needs More info: baal2025.wordpress.com

BAAL members: You are warmly invited to our next ‘meet your Executive Committee’ event on Friday 7th Feb 2025 at 11.00-12.00 UK time. Contact @wicaksono for Zoom link or see your BAALMail if you subscribe

Modern languages as tongue-tied! THE article in response to proposed closure of modern languages at Cardiff University: timeshighereducation.com/opinion/cardif… by Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Charles Burdett and Emma Cayley @ArtsandHums @UCFLangs @cardiffuni

The Arts and Humanities Alliance have written an open letter to @bphillipsonMP Secretary of State for Education, on the recently announced cuts across the sector. We are concerned that these measures disproportionately affect our disciplines & call for an urgent government review

BAAL followers may be interested to read an obituary for the late Mary Scott, an expert on academic literacies, and an inspiration to many BAAL members (inc @BAALPAWBL ) theguardian.com/education/2025…

A happy group of BAAL executive committee members this morning (despite horrendous weather)! Our January meeting identifies our aims for the year ahead to support our members If you've any questions, ask away! (ofc, questions are ALWAYS welcome via X & other routes)

To apply, contact @wicaksono (r.wicaksono[at]uel[.]ac[.]uk) stating: Your name Which of the criteria above you meet Up to 250 words about your reasons for joining BAAL and your potential contribution to our organisation, related to the key priorities listed above (4/4)

Currently without an institutional affiliation (if you are a student, then your host university provides you with an institutional affiliation) Currently employed on a fixed-term contract of 12 months or less, anywhere in the world (3/4)

Ten memberships available to applicants who meet one, or more, of the following criteria: Residency in a low- or lower-middle income country, as defined by the World Bank Refugee or Asylum Seeker status, anywhere in the world (2/4)

BAAL 2025 Solidarity Membership: deadline for applications is today - 20th January The Solidarity Membership reflect BAAL's aims for: Equality, diversity and inclusion Developing our international outlook Multilingual representation (1/4)

The Language Policy SIG is looking for a new Convenor and Co-Convenor. Applicants must be BAAL Members by the time they assume this role. Deadline 31.01.25. Link: forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

BAAL Applied Linguistics Meta-Review: Call for Reviewers! Doctoral students required to undertake meta-review role for BAAL website - application deadline 6th January See tinyurl.com/5n8dyjzv for full information

Hot off the press!!...The 3rd Edition of the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics features my entry on Narrative Inquiry in Language Education! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @MorayHouse

An influential linguist #nationallinguisticsday Prof Penelope Eckert: for transforming the theoretical work around language and identity, and making style relevant to our understanding of individual and community practices, spoken, written and digital (web.stanford.edu/~eckert/)

An influential linguist #nationallinguisticsday Prof Terttu Nevalainen: for her groundbreaking & generous work putting society into the study of historical language variation and change, and establishing corpus methods for historical sociolinguistics (tinyurl.com/mt88eake)