Garramilla/Darwin, 17th-19th November 2025
Applied Linguistics Association of Australia Conference 2025
Larrakia Country
Welcome from the ALAA 2025 Conference Organising Committee
Dear Colleagues
On behalf of the conference organising committee, it is my great pleasure to welcome you to Charles Darwin University for the ALAA 2025 conference: Language and the Interface of Mono-/Multi-/Translingual Mindsets.
We are excited to host this conference in the Northern Territory, a unique part of Australia, which is ideally representative of a multilingual context. This is reflected not only in over one hundred living languages spoken amongst our Indigenous population, for whom English is normally a second or third language, but also in our extended multicultural, multilingual community from Southeast Asia, the African subcontinent, Greece, and beyond.
2025 marks twenty years since esteemed linguist Michael Clyne coined the term ‘monolingual mindset’ in his book Australia’s Language Potential (2005) to describe how Australia’s multilingual society continues to adopt monolingual ways of being. This theme resonates with our locality and highlights the persistence of a monolingual mindset within Australian society, particularly in our educational and bureaucratic institutions, despite the multilingual nature of the community.
This year’s conference brings delegates from across the globe to share significant and diverse research that speaks to our conference theme and promises rich and enlightening discussions and new collaborations.
We are privileged to have four esteemed keynote speakers across our range of subthemes, who will challenge and stimulate our knowledge, understanding, and conversations throughout the conference. We thank them for their time and willingness to step into this pivotal space for galvanizing the conference themes.
I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to our conference organising committee and volunteers for making the conference possible, Charles Darwin University for providing the venue, and the ALAA Committee for their guidance and support.
I look forward to meeting all of you at the conference.
Nicola Rolls
Conference Chair ALAA 2025