Conference Secretariat
  PO Box 24078
  Mail Centre
  Manners St
  Wellington 6011
  Michelle Vui
  Tel: 64  4 384 1511
  Email: alanz@confer.co.nz

Welcome
The Applied Linguistics Associations of NZ and of Australia (ALANZ and ALAA) are pleased to announce that their first combined conference will be held in Auckland, New Zealand.
 
Dates:    2-4 December 2009
Venue:   AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand

This conference is proudly hosted by AUT and the University of Auckland.                

Conference theme:   

Participation and acquisition: Exploring these metaphors in Applied Linguistics.
 
A number of current debates in applied linguistics centre on Sfard’s distinction between ‘participation’ (i.e. the idea that language use and language learning should be viewed as essentially a social phenomenon) and ‘acquisition’ (i.e. the idea that language use and language learning are best viewed in terms of cognitive processes). Conference participants are encouraged to explore one or both of these metaphors in their own research and, if possible, to examine in what ways the epistemological and methodological differences inherent in the two metaphors might be reconciled.
 
Keynote speakers:
Lourdes Ortega
Cathie Elder
Tim McNamara
Gary Barkhuizen		 – University of Hawaii at Manoa
– University of Melbourne
– University of Melbourne
– University of Auckland

Further details about each keynote speaker and their presentation can be found on the Keynote Speaker page.


Chair of Organizing Committee
Professor John Bitchener
School of Languages and Social Sciences
AUT University
Private Bag 92006
Auckland
New Zealand

Email: john.bitchener@aut.ac.nz
Telephone: 64 9 921 9999 ext 7830

TESOLANZ scholarships to attend ALANZ

TESOLANZ is offering financial support for the registration costs of TESOLANZ members intending to attend the ALANZ conference on 2-4 December.

Applicants should send an email to tesolnz@tesol.org with "ALANZ scholarship application" in the subject line, explaining how they meet the following criteria:
  • TESOLANZ membership
  • Attending each conference day
  • Willingness to write report for TESOLANZ website/newsletter
  • No other source of funding support
  • Preference given to presenters
  • Preference to tertiary sector – especially PTEs

Applicants should also note whether or not they are ALANZ members, and whether they are registering as a student or non-student.

Emails should be received by Friday 8 August, and funds will be allocated according to availability.