MAALIC 2021 aims at providing a forum for academics, researchers, teachers and educational representatives, industry practitioners to share their knowledge, ideas, creativity and innovation within the field of applied linguistics including interconnections between other fields. MAALIC 2021 conference tracks include (but are not limited to):
- Language Teaching and Learning
- Innovation in language teaching and learning
- Foreign language teaching and applied linguistics
- Language in Education, Language for Academic Purposes
- Literature in language teaching and learning
- Reading, Writing and Literacy
- Second Language Acquisition, Language Acquisition and Attrition
- Teacher Education and Teaching Practices
- Intercultural education
- CALL/TELL
- Language in the Workplace
- Language for Specific and Vocational Purposes
- Applied linguistics and cross-cultural communication
- Language and Law
- Language and Ideology
- Language and Identity
- Discourse analysis
- Written, spoken and multimodal text
- Cross-cultural/intercultural communication
- Critical discourse analysis
- Computer-assisted/corpus-based
- Genre analysis
- Digital media
- Multilingualism and Multiliteracies
- Bilingual education in practice
- Language, Culture and Socialisation
- Interdisciplinary perspectives on multilingualism
- Language and Technology
- Language and Industrial Revolution 4.0
- Language, Cognition and Brain Research
- Language, Skills and Sustainable Economic Growth
- Multimodality
- Language testing and assessment
- Language program evaluation at work (Uses, frameworks, methods, approaches etc)
- Social dimensions of language assessment
- Language Policy and Planning
- Language curriculum development
- Language policy and language preservation
- Language documentation and language mapping
- Intercultural education policies
- Translation and interpretation studies
- Translation in the Language classroom
- Translation and interpretation in the workplace
8. Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics
9. Other areas of Applied Linguistics
INVITED SPEAKERS
Keynote Speakers
Professor Vijay Bhatia, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Associate Professor Andrew Moody, University of Macau
Professor Lorna Carson, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin
Dr Susanto Saman, Bandar Lampung University, Indonesia
PLENARY AND FEATURED SPEAKERS
- Associate Prof. Dr. Hadina Habil (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
- Associate Prof. Dr. Afiza Mohamad Ali (International Islamic University Malaysia)
- Associate Prof. Dr. Geshina Mat Saad (Universiti Sains Malaysia)
- Dr. Renate Kärchner-Ober (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
- Prof. Dr. Wang Xiao Mei (Xiamen University Malaysia)
- Assistant Prof. Dr. Radhika Jaidev (Singapore Institute of Technology)
- Assistant Prof. Dr. Vahid Aryadoust (National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University)
- Dr. Sumathi Renganathan (Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman)
- Dr. Chau Meng Huat (University of Malaya)
- Dr. Noor Ida Ramli (Universiti Teknologi MARA)
IMPORTANT DATES
Call for Abstracts
1st Call: 31st May 2021
2nd Call: 30th June 2021
3rd Call: 30th July 2021
Final Deadline: 20th August 2021
Notification of Abstract Acceptance
1st Call: 15th June 2021
2nd Call: 15th July 2021
3rd Call: 15th August 2021
Final Call: 20th August 2021
Deadline for Registration and Payment
Paper Presenters: 20th August 2021 (or within 7 days upon abstract acceptance)
Participants: 30th August 2021
Who Should Attend
The conference is expected to benefit students, educators, academics, researchers, industries, NGOs, government sector, policy-makers and all those with an interest in the role of language in society.
Types of Presentation
| KEYNOTE AND PLENARY | (40 minutes) |
| PARALLEL PAPER PRESENTATION | (15 minutes) |
| POSTER PRESENTATION | (15 minutes) |
| WORKSHOPS | (90 minutes) |
| PANEL/SYMPOSIA | (based on themes-2 hours) |