The goal of the organization is to provide an annual venue for scholars of the multi-disciplinary field of applied linguistics to share their research.

It promotes an evidence based and principled approach to language related research including language education, acquisition and loss, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, literacy, rhetoric, discourse analysis, language assessment, policy, planning, and more.

Those who wish to submit a proposal are required to choose from one of the strands below:

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