The 9th HAAL Conference (2025)

Date: 12-Jul-2025 - 12-Jul-2025
Location: Hong Kong, China
Contact: Barry Bai
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://haalconference2025.wixsite.com/haal-2025

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

The HAAL 2025 conference welcomes proposals in all areas of applied linguistics. While there is no specific conference theme, we are particularly interested in innovative and rigorous topics that demonstrate strong methodological and/or theoretical approaches. Additionally, we encourage postgraduate students who are nearing completion of their theses to submit proposals as well.
Website: https://haalconference2025.wixsite.com/haal-2025

Submission Guidelines
Please submit abstracts of a maximum of 200 words at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=haal2025. Each proposal should clearly indicate the objectives, methods, and (preliminary) results where appropriate. All accepted proposals will be presented in the form of ‘individual papers’. For each paper, the presenter(s)should speak for no more than 20 minutes, followed by a 5-min Q&A session. Each presenter is limited to one individual presentation OR one joint presentation.

Deadline of abstract submission: May 16, 2025.

Keynote Speakers
• Prof. Andy Gao Xuesong, The University of New South Wales, Australia

Publications
All presenters are welcome to submit their papers for the “Special Issue for HAAL 2025 Conference” in the Asian Journal of English Language Teaching (AJELT), published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. AJELT is published in the gold open access mode, which means that there is no author fee, and all published papers are free to download.

Registration fee s
HAAL member (lunch included): HKD 400
Non-member (lunch included): HKD 600
On-site registration for non-presenters (no lunch): HKD 600

Venue
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR

Contact
All questions about submission should be emailed to Dr Mable Chan (HAAL secretary) / Professor Barry Bai (HAAL president and conference chair) ([email protected]/[email protected]).

Sponsors
HAAL would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Faculty of Education, the Chinese University of Hong Kong for their kind support and sponsorship.