Welcome to SAALA
The Southern African Applied Linguistics Association (SAALA) is a
professional association of scholars who are interested in, and
actively contributing to, the multidisciplinary field of applied
linguistics. Founded in 1980, SAALA’s prime objectives are to
promote research by means of an annual conference and workshops;
through affiliation with other organisations with similar interests,
and through facilitating the distribution and exchange of information.
Announcement: SAALA/LSSA/SAALT 2012 Conference: 'Diversity and Complexity'
Please see the link to this conference:
http://www.ufs.ac.za/SAALA_LSSA_SAALT
Strands/Themes:
- Linguistics
- Applied linguistics
- Language teaching
- Other, e.g., Language practice, Language policy and planning, Translation, Interpreting, et cetera.
Announcement: Roundtable on Academic Writing
The Roundtable on Academic Writing will be held at the Language & Communication Centre, Nanyang Technological University,. Dates: 1-2 December 2011.
See poster for more detail.
About SAALA
Applied Linguistics in this context is understood to be an applied
academic discipline based on general linguistic theory and its
application in a wide variety of related academic fields having
language and language use as an object of academic enquiry. In the
South African context, the focus of applied linguistic research covers
the following fields of enquiry:
- Academic literacy development
- Bilingualism
- Bilingual/multilingual education
- Classroom discourse
- Critical discourse analysis
- Computer-assisted language
learning (CALL)
- Contrastive rhetoric
- Discourse analysis
- Discourse in professional
contexts
- Gender studies
- Genre analysis
- Interactional sociolinguistics
- Intercultural communication
and pragmatics
- Interpreting
- Language acquisition (first,
second, third and foreign)
- Language assessment
- Language awareness
- Language and identity
- Language, ideology and politics
- Language and migration
- Language policy and planning
- Language rights
- Language teacher education
(pre- and in-service)
- Language pedagogy
- Language standardization
- Listening and speaking
- Literacy Studies
- Materials development
- Medium of instruction and
language across the curriculum
- Multilingualism
- Multimodality
- Professional discourse
- Reading and Writing
- Text analysis
- Translation
- World
Englishes
membership