Garramilla/Darwin, 17th-19th November 2025
Applied Linguistics Association of Australia Conference 2025
Larrakia Country
Call For Papers
Language and the interface of mono-/multi-/translingual mindsets
** Call for Papers is now closed **
Considerations of language and working within a multilingual community are fundamental aspects of contemporary society. To explore these realities, the theme of The Applied Linguistics Association of Australia Conference 2025 is: ‘Language and the interface of mono-/multi-/translingual mindsets’. 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 conference aims to reinvigorate discussions connected with this theme through a contemporary lens by probing the extent to which locality and monolingual mindsets persist within society, with attention also paid to educational and bureaucratic institutions, despite multilingualism’s presence in the community.
We invite papers on the following sub-themes:
- Real-world challenges and innovations
- Power dynamics in languaging
- Transformative pedagogy
- AI and disruptive technology in applied linguistics
We encourage applied linguists, language teachers, curriculum specialists, Indigenous education practitioners, teacher trainers, and students, who are all stakeholders in our multilingual society to consider sharing their research at The Applied Linguistics Association of Australia Conference 2025, to be hosted by Charles Darwin University in Darwin, NT from November 17-19, 2025.
Paper proposals
We seek proposals for 20-minute paper presentations (followed by 5 minutes of questions) discussing research and/or innovative practice, related to one of the four conference sub-themes.
Please include:
- Title
- A 250-word abstract
- 50-word presenter biography
- Identification of conference sub-theme alignment
- Identification of three keywords for the paper
Poster presentation proposals
Workshop proposals
Colloquium proposals
The sub-themes driving the conference include:
Real-world challenges and innovations
This sub-theme analyses the practical challenges and innovative solutions in language policy and planning. This sub-theme could focus on how policies are formulated, implemented, and evaluated in real-world contexts, with a particular emphasis on the relationship with sociolinguistic factors, including linguistic landscape. Papers in this space may also address how language policies address bi-/multilingual education, and the role of policy in transcultural communication and literacies.
Power dynamics in languaging
This sub-theme delves into how language interacts with power structures, social hierarchies, and resistance movements. This sub-theme could include critical perspectives of translanguaging and language practices in education in connection with social equalities, empowerment, or cultural resistance. Papers in this space may focus on diverse contexts where languaging plays a role in community, sociopolitical structures, or relate to socioeconomic disparities, and how these dynamics relate to transcultural communication and literacies.
Transformative pedagogy
This sub-theme investigates innovative pedagogical approaches that address the linguistic complexities of the classroom. This could include exploring new technologies, blended learning models, curriculum development, and teacher training that integrate translanguaging, bi-/multilingual education, and equitable practices. Papers in this space may focus on applied solutions with proven effectiveness in diverse educational settings, including addressing gaps in education standards and improving teacher cognition and assessment strategies.
AI and disruptive technology in applied linguistics
This sub-theme explores the role of artificial intelligence and other disruptive technologies in applied linguistics, focusing on their impact on languaging, language teaching, methodological developments, and online experimentation. This could include discussions on AI-driven language learning tools, automated assessment systems, and innovative digital methodologies that transform language education and research practices. Papers in this space may place emphasis on how these technologies can be harnessed to support effective pedagogical strategies, including the genre pedagogy approach, and address challenges in bi-/multilingual education.
In considering what may be explored under each sub-theme, we invite proposals connected with, but not limited to, the following strands:
- Analysis of discourse and interaction
- AI-driven language learning tools
- Automated assessment systems
- Bi-/Multilingualism and bi-multilingual education
- Both-ways education
- Cognitive linguistics
- Community and heritage language education
- Corpus linguistics
- Curriculum development
- Data-driven learning
- Digital and multimodal communication
- English as a lingua franca
- Indigenous languages (incl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages) in education
- Innovative digital methodologies for language education and research
- Language assessment, testing and evaluation
- Language, culture and identity
- Language planning and policy
- Language revitalisation and cultural agency
- Language teaching (incl. specific languages and TESOL)
- Linguistic landscape
- Pragmatics and intercultural communication
- Psycholinguistics
- Research design and methodology
- Second language acquisition and learning
- Sociolinguistics
- Teacher training
- Translating and interpreting
- Transcultural communication and literacies
Please note that the Call for Papers is now closed. Reviews are underway and you can track progress via your Oxford Abstracts. The Conference Committee will advise of proposal outcome no later than July 31, 2025.