BAAL: British Association for Applied Linguistics
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Britain's professional body for Applied Linguists, with over 1,000 members | RTs ≠ endorsement. Tweets by @_MelEvans
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
🎓 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
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)
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)
