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Sponsorship and Donations

To the friends and supporters of Applied Linguistics in Canada Our annual conference is just around the corner. This year, the 2024 ACLA/CAAL conference will take place June 12-14, 2024 (hybrid). We would like to invite you to take advantage of our offer to provide information about your association and your work in the field …

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Plenaries 2023

First plenary Melanie Griffith Brice, University of Regina Bio Dr. Melanie Griffith Brice is a Michif scholar and a citizen of the Métis Nation – Saskatchewan. She is a mother and grandmother. She is in the process of reclaiming her Michif language. A proud SUNTEP alumna, she worked as an elementary classroom teacher and a …

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Call for Papers 2023

Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference In conjunction with the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences May 27 – 29, 2023 Congress 2023 will take place at York’s Keele and Glendon Campuses in Toronto. Submission Deadline for Proposals: December 15, 2022 Program Chairs Caroline Payant, Université du Québec à Montréal Angelica Galante, McGill University …

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Call for Papers 2024

Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics In conjunction with the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences June 12-14, 2024 ACLA 2024 conference, in conjunction with Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, will take place at McGill University, in Montreal. The conference continues to support equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization, and will feature some virtual components to …

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Invited Symposium

Transdisciplinarity for Language Education in Contemporary Times  Symposium Organizer: Julie S. Byrd Clark, Western University Presentation 1 Introduction to Symposium Julie S. Byrd Clark, Associate Professor, Western University There have been some interesting ‘turns’ as concerns language and intercultural education within the past ten years (May 2014; Pennycook, 2010), one of them being a shift in …

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Indigenous Graduate Student Award

Indigenous Graduate Student Award The Indigenous Graduate Student Award supports attendance of Indigenous graduate student members at the ACLA/CAAL annual conference. *Note that in the case of online conferences when no travel is required, the award may take the form of payment of conference-related fees and/or a fixed amount, all subject to the approval of …

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Plenary Sessions

English Plenary Beverly Baker University of Ottawa Multilingual competence, language assessment literacy, and social justice:  Tendances dans le domaine d’évaluation de la langue Language assessment has followed a somewhat distinct disciplinary trajectory compared to other sub-fields of applied linguistics, having originated in the areas of psychological and educational measurement. Indeed, the stereotype of the “language …

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