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 32nd Annual Congress of the Applied Linguistics
Association of Australia
ALAA Congress 2007
Making a Difference: Challenges for Applied Linguistics
Keynote Speakers
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Jill Bourne
Jill Bourne is Professor of Primary Education at the University of Southampton. Her research interests lie in language education and raising attainment in multilingual contexts. She previously worked at the Open University UK, University College of Swansea, Wales and the National Foundation for Education Research, UK. She is a past Vice President of AILA and past Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL). She has led and worked on a number of national and international research studies, and recent books include 'English in Urban Classrooms' (RoutledgeFalmer, with Gunther Kress, Carey Jewitt et al) and the 'World Yearbook of Education: Language Education' (RoutledgeFalmer, co-edited with Euan Reid).
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Jan Blommaert
Jan Blommaert is Professor and Chair of Languages in Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. He is also part-time Professor of African Linguistics and Sociolinguistics at Ghent University, Belgium. He was trained as a historian and an anthropologist in African Studies (Ghent), and specialised in linguistics (Amsterdam and Antwerp). His trajectory took him through sociolinguistics, pragmatics, linguistic anthropology and discourse analysis. He has published widely on language ideologies and language inequality in Africa and Europe, and he co-ordinates a Flemish Government collaboration programme with the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His publications include Discourse: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge University Press 2005), Language Ideological Debates (edited, Mouton de Gruyter 1999), State Ideology and Language in Tanzania (Köppe 1999) and Debating Diversity (with Jef Verschueren, Routledge 1998).
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Rod Ellis
Rod Ellis is currently Professor in the Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics, University of Auckland, where he teaches postgraduate courses on second language acquisition, individual differences in language learning and task-based teaching. His published work includes articles and books on second language acquisition, language teaching and teacher education. His books include Understanding Second Language Acquisition (BAAL Prize 1986) and The Study of Second Language Acquisition (Duke of Edinburgh prize 1995). More recently, Task-Based Learning and Teaching early (2003) and (with Gary Barkhuizen). Analyzing Learner Language in (2005) ), were published by Oxford University Press. He has also published several English language textbooks, including Impact Grammar (Pearson: Longman). He is also currently editor of the journal Language Teaching Research. In addition to his current position in New Zealand, he has worked in schools in Spain and Zambia and in universities in the United Kingdom, Japan and the United States. He has also conducted numerous consultancies and seminars throughout the world.
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Ingrid Piller
Ingrid Piller (PhD, Dresden 1995) is an applied sociolinguist, who is affiliated with the University of Sydney, and the University of Basel, Switzerland, where she holds the Chair of English Sociolinguistics and the Sociology of English as a Global Language. Her research interests are in intercultural communication, language learning, multilingualism, and language aspects of globalization. She is currently directing a research project that deals with languages and identities in the Swiss tourism sector. She is the author of two monographs, American Automobile Names (Essen: Blaue Eule, 1996) and Bilingual Couples Talk (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2002); co-editor of Multilingualism, Second Language Learning and Gender (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001); and her articles have appeared in journals such as Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Estudios de Sociolingüística, International Journal of Bilingualism, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language in Society,and Poetics Today. Pre-prints of some of her publications can be downloaded from http://pages.unibas.ch/anglist/people/teachers/piller.htm. She is now writing a textbook on Intercultural Communication for Edinburgh University Press, which aims to provide a critical introduction to the field from a sociolinguistic and discourse-analytic perspective.
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