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The 1995 Annual Meeting of AAAL will be held in Long Beach, CA, March 25-28, immediately prior to the TESOL Convention. The Program Chair is Jodi Crandall (Department of Education, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 5401 Wilkens Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21228; 410/455-2313; e-mail: crandallMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuegl.umbc.edu). Associate Chairs are Donna Christian and Ken Sheppard (Center for Applied Linguistics (202) 429-9292), and the Local Chair is Terrence Wiley (California State University, Long Beach). 2 Participants are urged to make hotel reservations early. For information or to make reservations, contact: the Long Beach2 Hilton, Two World Trade Center, Long Beach CA, 90831-3102, U.S.A.2 or call (310) 983-3400, or 1-800-445-8667, and ask for the group rate (US $99 for single/double and US $119 for suites) for the2 AAAL Annual Meeting. Featured plenary speakers at the meeting will include2 William Grabe, Claire Kramsch, Reynaldo Mac_as, Muriel Saville-Troike, Merrill Swain, and Walt Wolfram. In addition, several colloquia will be organized: Future Directions for Second Language Reading Research (organizers: Elizabeth2 Bernhardt and Jan Hulstijn) Issues in the Assessment of Learner Strategies (organizers: Roberta Abraham and Roberta Vann) Language Policy and Planning: Educational, Political and Social Perspectives (organizers: G. Richard Tucker and Richard Donato) Literacy and Bilingualism in Deaf Education (organizers: Claire Ramsey and Carol Padden) Researching Integrated Language Content Instruction: Secondary ESL and FL (organizers: Marguerite Ann Snow, Marjorie Wesche, and Diane Musumeci) A call for papers has also been issued, inviting abstracts for individual papers, colloquia and research workshops on topics in applied2 linguistics: Individual papers will be 20 minutes long, with 10 minutes for discussion. Send three copies of a typed double-spaced abstract no more than 250 words long. In the upper left-hand corner of the first copy, place the submitter's name, address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address and institutional affiliation. Do not put any identification on the second and third copies. In addition, please submit a 50-word typed single-spaced summary, headed by the name and affiliation of each presenter together with the title of the paper. This summary will appear in the conference program exactly as it is submitted;2 please be certain that what you present is what you wish to have printed in the program. Proposals are also invited for two- or three-hour colloquia, including up to four or six presentations respectively. Colloquium proposals should be submitted in the same manner as individual papers, except that abstracts should be attached for each contribution together with a 50-word description by the organizer of the entire colloquium for the conference program. 2 All abstracts for presentation in a colloquium must be submitted together, accompanied by a cover letter from the organizer bearing the organizer's name, address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address and institutional affiliation, explaining how the individual presentations will relate to one another and to the2 theme of the colloquium. Research Workshops will be 1 1/2 hours long and include one or two presenters. They should be hands-on, technique rather2 than result-oriented sessions that show "how to do" some aspect of research in applied linguistics. Workshop proposals should follow the same guidelines as proposals for individual papers and colloquia. Abstract submissions are due at the Business Office no later than September 16, 1994. Send all abstracts and colloquium or workshop proposals to: AAAL 1995 Program Committee, 7630 West 145th Street; Suite 202, Apple Valley, MN 55124-7553. Telephone. (612) 953-0805; Fax (612) 891-1800; E-Mail howe
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The Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists invit es submissions of scholarly papers, poster sessions, scientific exhibits, minis eminars, seminars, and videotapes to the annual conference April 26-29, 1995 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Submissions should be in the area of communication d isorders and be of interest to speech-language pathologists and/or audiologists Please write to the address below for more information and a copy of the "Reque st for Presentation" form. Only those submissions that conform to the stated g uidelines and are accompanied by the "Request fro Presentation" form will be re viewed. Submissions must be received by October 28, 1994. Address: Linda J. Garcia, Ph.D., Chair, Contributed Papers Subcommittee, CASLP A Conference '95, Programme d'audiologie et d'orthophonie, Universite d'Ottawa, 545 King Edward, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5, Tel (613) 564-9918, Fax (613 ) 564-9919, e-mail: lgarciaMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issueacadvm1.uottawa.ca Linda J. Garcia, Ph.D., S-LP(C) Programme d'audiologie et d'orthophonie Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Program Universite d'Ottawa/ University of Ottawa 545 King Edward Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1N 6N5 TEL: 613-564-9920 FAX: 613-564-9919 e-mail: lgarcia
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