AAAL 2003 News & Updates

This is where we announce news, updates, and the most recent additions to our web site. If you’ve visited us before and want to know what’s changed, take a look here first.

• AAAL 2003 CONFERENCE WILL GO ON AS PLANNED - In light of the current international situation, we want to assure you that the AAAL conference is proceeding forward as planned. There are no plans to cancel the conference. We believe and expect that it will be possible to have a good, even excellent AAAL conference in spite of the circumstances. We look forward to seeing you in Arlington.
• The complete AAAL 2003 Conference Program is now available online in the Conference Program section of the website
• Rooms at the Sheraton National Hotel are basically fully booked for the conference dates. If you wish to stay in the conference hotel, contact them directly to check on current availability (see Venue section). There may be cancellations. For other nearby hotels, click here.
• IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING OPENING/CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE: Registration for the 2003 AAAL Conference will begin Friday evening, March 21, and the conference itself will begin at 9 am on Saturday, March 22, 2003 with a full schedule of colloquia, individual papers and posters, in addition to a joint AAAL/ILTA session on the theme of “New Voices in Applied Linguistics and Language Testing.” Please note this change from previous years (in recent years, only the AAAL/ILTA session was scheduled for Saturday morning). The conference will end at 5:30 pm on Tuesday, March 25.
  

Other conferences of interest immediately preceding and following AAAL:

• The East Coast Organization of Language Testers (ECOLT) will hold its second annual conference on Thursday and Friday, March 20 and 21, 2003, immediately preceding AAAL. The theme of this year’s conference is “U.S. Trends in Language Testing for Accountability and Security.” ECOLT represents an East Coast group of professionals, scholars, and students who are involved in language testing projects and research. One of the organization's goals is to support connections among academia, government, and not-for-profit testing organizations. In addition to providing a forum for continued learning and networking, ECOLT strongly supports the work of graduate students.
• TESOL, March 26-29, 2003, Baltimore, Maryland (For transportation options for AAAL 2003 to TESOL 2003, click here)

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