世界应用语言学大会（World Congress of Applied Linguistics）是国际应用语言学学会（International Association of Applied Linguistics，简称AILA）每3年召开一次的应用语言学学术盛会。国际应用语言学学会是各个国家和地区应用语言学协会的国际性联合总会，目前共有会员8000多人，在全世界范围内从事应用语言学研究、相关政策制定及应用。

世界应用语言学大会一般为期5天，会议形式包括主旨发言、小型研讨、分组发言和论文展示等，研讨当前本领域的最新发展与重要课题。每届大会由AILA在各国家/地区的分支机构承办，已在法国、英国、希腊、德国、荷兰、瑞典、美国、加拿大、日本、新加坡等多个国家举办。历届应用语言学大会的议程既反映了当时的研究热点，也记录了本学科领域的发展历史。同时，历届大会也成为各举办国展现研究水准、呈现文化魅力的窗口。北京的申办成功，标志着我国应用语言学研究已经发展到了一个相当高的水平，得到了国际语言学界的肯定；同时，也标志着北京不但在体育赛事承办方面走在世界前列，在语言文化方面的成就也得到了世界的广泛认可。

The French edition of the AILA 2023 congress will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of AILA congress but also the 60th anniversary of AFLA. This will be the opportunity to emphasize that applied linguistics has been interested in real-world problems, from the outset. Reacting to pre- and post-COVID global issues, this congress will be organized around the theme "Diversity and social cohesion in a globalized world: towards more committed language sciences". The overall goal will be to reflect on how studies in applied linguistics and the researchers who produce them can participate in the construction of a globalized world in which respect for diversity as a basis for social cohesion requires individual and collective commitment. The event is hybrid with online only, in-person only and hybrid sessions.

Come and join us from July 17th to 21st, 2023.

Symposium format

Applicants should choose between the following 3 symposium formats:

Research Network (ReN) symposium: ReN members propose 30-minute individual papers.

Multimodal symposium: one or two coordinators first propose a theme. Researchers can then submit a proposal during the call for individual papers.

On-the-ground symposium: one or more researchers propose a symposium focused on the practical discovery of research methods, pedagogical practices, exploratory tools, etc.

Symposium mode

In stage 2, applicants should choose between the following 3 symposium modes:

Hybrid: All presentations must be pre-recorded and uploaded to the dedicated website before the conference. Slots will be allocated per half-day (5 papers except for on-the-ground symposia) in local French time. Rooms can be booked for coordinators on site  for face-to-face exchanges.

100% online: All presentations must be pre-recorded and uploaded to the dedicated website before the conference. Slots will be allocated per half-day (5 papers) in local French time or in coordinators' local time. Exchanges will be online only. Speakers will be able to meet in person outside Lyon but synchronous exchanges will take place only on the dedicated platform.

100% in-person: ON-THE-GROUND SYMPOSIUM ONLY - coordinators will be required to produce a teaser video of their symposium before the conference. 

Please note that no format changes can be made once the proposal has been accepted.

Symposium languages

Symposium coordinators can choose between the four conference languages: French, English, Spanish or German. Proposals can be submitted in one of these four languages. Coordinators can then determine the main language(s) for discussions in their symposium. A short abstract in English will also be required for French, Spanish or German symposium proposal submissions.

Sub-themes

Coordinators will be asked to select the most appropriate theme for their symposium from the list below:

(APPLIED) LINGUISTIC THEORY: history, (usage based) approaches, CDST-complexity, theory, approaches and analysis, phonology, psychology

LANGUAGES IN INSTRUCTION: languages as Medium of Instruction, in Higher Education, in CLIL and languages for Internationalization

(MINORITY) LANGUAGES IN THE WORLD: Lingua Franca, Global language, Academic Language, dialects

LANGUAGE RESOURCES: multi-modality (including gesture), corpora, artifacts

LANGUAGE & TECHNOLOGY: media, tools, digitals humanities, Natural Language Processing (NLP)

LANGUAGE IN THE MIND/BRAIN: psycholinguistics, bilingualism, multilingualism, processing, cognitive advantage, individual factors or differences, cross-linguistic factors, disorders

LANGUAGE IN USE: communication, interaction, conversation analysis, discourse, corpus, media

LANGUAGE SKILLS: writing, fluency, chunks / formulaic language, speaking, feedback, testing

LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING: teacher education, curricula and education, classrooms, instruction, task-based learning, EAP, study abroad, (virtual) exchanges, materials and methods

LANGUAGES IN PROFESSIONS: translation & interpreting, transdisciplinarity, justice, medicine, food, forensics

LEARNER CHARACTERISTICS: autonomy, strategies, young, old, non-instructed, individual factors or differences, emotion

LINGUISTIC SOCIAL ISSUES: linguistic (in)justice, power, advocacy, attitude & bias, diversity-emancipation, discriminations, ethnicity and gender, ideology, language & social justice

LANGUAGES IN SOCIETY: bilingualism, multilingualism, plurilingualism, multilingual classroom, translanguaging, literacy & literacies, heritage language, home language, migrants, deaf, sign/gesture

RESEARCH: methods, approaches and (collaborative) practices

OTHERS

Projected call schedule

January 2022: Launch of call for symposia

March 8thMarch 27th 2022 (23:59 CET): Symposia call deadline

March 2022: Notification of acceptance of symposia

April 2022: Launch of the call for individual papers

June 2022: Individual paper call deadline

July 2022: Notification of acceptance of individual papers

2022年6月：个人论文征集截止日期

Each symposium applicant is considered to be the symposium coordinator. Their role is to best organize the scientific orientation and internal logistics of this mini scientific event in accordance with the support and framework provided by conference organizers. They benefit from the reduced registration fee. 

Key steps in the procedure: 

Submit a symposium proposal.

When calling for individual submissions, it is advisable to advertise widely enough among specialists in the field to ensure that proposals are received. A symposium will only open once 10 proposals have been submitted.

Coordinators act as the scientific committee and select the individual proposals in accordance with the AILA assessment grid. 

Coordinators ensure the conformity of the different papers selected.

Coordinators are responsible for moderating their symposium during the selected slot.