Congress calendar
Events not mentioned in earlier issues of System or corrected versions of previous an-
nouncements will be printed in italics to facilitate information intake.
The official AILA Congress Calendar, maintained by the Centre for Applied Language
Studies at the University of Jyva
¨
skyla
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, Finland, with over 300 events for linguists, re-
searchers, and language teachers can be found at
http://www.jyu.fi/hum/laitokset/solki/
kongressitkansio/kongressikalenteri
2008
30
th
ANNUAL LANGUAGE TESTING
RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM (LTRC 2008)
Theme: Focusing on the core: Justifying the
use of language assessments to stake-
holders
Place: Hangzhou, China
Dates: 25–28 June 2008
WWW: http://www.sis.zju.edu.cn/sis/sisht/
english/ltrc2008/main.html
ICEL 2008: 3
rd
INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON E-LEARNING
Place: Cape Town, South Africa
Dates: 26–27 June 2008
E-mail: info@academic-conferences.org
WWW: http://academic-conferences.org/icel/
icel2008/icel08-home.htm
LANGUAGE AWARENESS CONFERENCE
(ALA 2008)
Theme: Engaging with language
Place: Hong Kong, China
Dates: 26–29 June 2008
WWW: http://www.hku.hk/clear/ala/
ED-MEDIA 2008
Place: Vienna, Austria
Dates: 30 June–4 July 2008
WWW: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/
default.htm
ATTAINING SECOND LANGUAGE
PROFICIENCY (BAAL Language learning &
teaching SIG)
Place: Greenwich, UK
Dates: 1–2 July 2008
WWW: http://www.baal.org/sigs_learnteach_
conf2008.doc
TEACHING AND LANGUAGE CORPORA
CONFERENCE (TaLC 8)
Place: Lisbon, Portugal
Dates: 3–6 July 2008
WWW: http://talc8.isla.pt/
Available online at www.sciencedirect.com
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