The call for papers for the 30th Annual Conference of The Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA) will open on 1st September and the deadline for submissions is 25th November 2011.

Prospective participants are invited to submit proposals for regular papers, posters, or for the organization of round tables. Proposals should be thematically related to the ten panels around which the Association is organized (see below for list of panels). Participants are especially encouraged to submit proposals related to the main conference theme: “Applied Linguistics in the Age of Globalization”. The aim of the conference is to gather researchers from the field of applied linguistics who are working on topics related to communication across different languages, countries, and cultures, with emphasis on how people cope with the communicative situations produced in those contexts (e.g. in case of misunderstanding or conflict, or other types of situations).

The Conference will cover the following areas (panels of AESLA):

•Language acquisition
•Language teaching
•Language for specific purposes
•Language psychology, child language and psycholinguistics
•Sociolinguistics
•Pragmatics
•Discourse analysis
•Corpus linguistics, computational linguistics and linguistic engineering
•Lexicology and lexicography
•Translation and interpreting
The list of panel coordinators and contact details can be downloaded from http://www.aesla.uji.es/paneles.

In addition, the 30th Conference of AESLA will also include an interdisciplinary panel on Psycholinguistics, Lexicography and Corpus linguistics, which will be jointly coordinated by the corresponding panel chairs. The aim of this panel is to promote the interrelation of different disciplines within the field of applied linguistics, in order to facilitate synergies among different researchers towards a multidisciplinary approach. Participants can therefore also send proposals related to this new panel (in the same way as for the rest of the panels).

Proposals for papers, posters or round tables must be submitted using the online proposal submission form no later than November 25th, 2011.

Plenary speakers:

Vivian J. Cook (Newcastle University): “The goals of language teaching in a globalised world”

Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birbeck, University of London): “Communicating emotions in a lingua franca”

Christiane Fellbaum (Forbes College, Princeton University): “Lexical resources for mapping concepts and words across languages and cultures”

Lluis Payrato (Universitat de Barcelona): "Local/global, teoría/praxis, textual/multimodal. La lingüística aplicada como análisis crítico y mediación de conflictos"

Aquilino Sanchez (Universidad de Murcia): “Hacia un nuevo concepto de 'método para la enseñanza de lenguas' desde la perspectiva de la globalidad e interdisciplinariedad”