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March 20-22,2002 -- TESOL Arabia 8th Annual International Conference 2002: Critical Reflection and Practice, at the Abu Dhabi Hilton Hotel, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Heading up a 150-presentation academic program is a roster of invited speakers which includes Keith Richards, Bonny Norton, Robert Phillipson, Stephen Gaies, Suresh Canagarajah, Graham Crookes, Adrian Holliday, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, and Barbara Sinclair. The conference will also feature an educational materials exhibition and sale, institutional visit options, a job fair with onsite interviews, and an extensive social program. Pre-register by February 13th for a sizable reduction in fees. Registration forms and much else besides can be found online at <tesolarabiaconference.org>. Direct any registration questions to Sandra Oddy at <registration@tesolarabia.org>, by snail mail at Al Ain Women's College, PO Box 17258, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, or by fax at 971-(0)3-7622920. For general inquiries, email Les Kirkham at <leslie.kirkham@hct.ac.ae> or contact Zafar Syed; <z.syed@mli.ac.ae>; Military Language Institute, PO Box 31529, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; t: 971-(0)50-6169811; f: 971-(0)2-6421307.

April 5-7, 2002 -- Bilingualism & Multilingualism: The 47th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association, to be held at the downtown campus of the Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, York University, Toronto, Canada. See the conference website at <www.ilaword.org/ilacall2002.html> for somewhat more information. Further contact: Johanna J. Woltjer, Conference Coordinator; 511 West 112 Street #14, New York, NY 10025-1634, USA; t: 1-212-749-3366; <ilaconf.woltjer@gte.net>.

April 6-9, 2002 -- AAAL (American Association of Applied Linguistics) Annual Conference: (Re)Interpreting Applied Linguistics, Sheraton Conference Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. In colloquia and paper sessions, in plenaries and in the book exhibit, participants will see ideas being generated, disciplinary boundaries crossed, and research disseminated about issues and concerns in, for example, language policy, language acquisition, language pedagogies, or translation and interpretation. Among the five plenary speakers this year are Kees de Bot of the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands, on "Language, memory, and aging," Braj B. Kachru of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on "Anatomy of an encyclopaedia: Constructs of knowledge in applied linguistics," and Cynthia Selfe of Michigan Technological University on "Rethinking technological literacy: Language practices and values in a technological world." Paul Kei Matsuda of the University of New Hampshire will offer a colloquium on "Changing currents in second language writing research," while AAAL and ILTA will conduct a joint colloquium, "Drawing the line: The generalizability and limitations of research in applied linguistics." See the conference website at <www.mrhassoc.com/aaal2002/conferencehighlights2.htm> for more detail about this manageable, quieter, more theoretically oriented conference which immediately precedes TESOL 2002. For further information, email <aaaloffice@aaal.org>, or write to the AAAL Business Office, PO Box 21686, Eagan, MN 55121-0686 USA; t: 1-952-953-0805; f: 1-952-431-8404.

April 9-13, 2002 -- TESOL 2002: Language and the Human Spirit -- The 36th Annual International Convention and Exposition, to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, at the Salt Palace Convention Center and the Marriott Downtown City Center. Explore the website at <www.tesol.org/conv/index-conv.html> for extensive information about the academic sessions and speakers, forums, symposia and institutes, the job search workshops and job fair, the CALL Electronic Village and On-line Sessions, educational visits, energy breaks, a Swap Shop and more. Pre-registration ends on March 1; online pre-registration is available. For further information, use the online form at <www.tesol.org/global/request.html> or contact the office directly at: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 700 South Washington Street, Suite 200, Alexandria, Virginia 22314 USA; t: 1-703-836-0774 (business hours); f: 1-703-836-7864 or 703-836-6447; Fax on Demand: 1-800-329-4469.

Calls For Papers/Posters

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February 15, 2002 [11:59 p.m.] (for November 22-24, 2002) -- JALT2002: 28th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Expo: Waves of the Future, at Granship, Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The thrust of this year's conference is to explore trends that will have ramifications far into the 21st century. Papers (25 minutes), workshops and demonstrations (45 or 105 minutes) or poster sessions (2 hours) focusing on classroom practices, research and theory, or both are welcome. For a detailed list of topics and instructions for submission, see the Call for Presentations at <jalt.org/jalt2002/>. Only web submissions will be accepted. No link for further information is provided.

February 17, 2002 (for September 28-29, 2002) -- Peace as a Global Language, a joint SIG conference cosponsored by GALE, GILE, and PALE to be held at Daito Bunka Kaikan, Daito Bunka University, Nerima-ku, Tokyo. We seek workshop proposals related to language teaching and peace. Themes include understanding/teaching about minority rights, labor issues, green movements, peace education, critical pedagogies, multiculturalism, gender and queer studies, terrorism and war, bullying, conflict resolution in schools, AIDs education, and other human rights and peace-related topics. For information please contact the coordinators of GALE, GILE, or PALE, or the Peace as a Global Language Conference Committee, c/o J. Nakagawa, 2-285 Isohara, Isohara-cho, Kita-Ibaraki-shi, Ibaraki-ken 319-1541 Japan; t: 0293-43-1755, email <jane@ulis.ac.jp> or <janenakagawa@yahoo.com>.

Reminders -- Upcoming Conferences

March 23-27, 2002 -- 36th International Annual IATEFL Conference, to be held at The University of York, U.K. Plenary sessions will be given by Leni Dam, Diane Larsen-Freeman, Peter Skehan, Martha Pennington, and B. Kumaravadivelu, and there will be an extensive ELT Resources Exhibition. See the IATEFL website at <www.iatefl.org> or email <generalenquiries@iatefl.org> for information. For further details on all aspects of the conference and exhibition, contact IATEFL; 3 Kingsdown Chambers, Whitstable, CT5 2FL, UK; t: 44-(0)-227-276-528; f: 44 (0)-227-274-415.