Dear colleagues,

We are reaching out on behalf of Open Applied Linguistics, an AILA (International Association of Applied Linguistics) Research Network dedicated to promoting open scholarship in applied linguistics. We are really excited to see that BAAL 2023 (the annual conference of British Association for Applied Linguistics) will be focused on celebrating transformative open research initiatives, which is a close fit to our network:

-   accessible, transparent, reproducible, collaborative, inclusive research, practice, and policy

-   decolonising language learning/teaching

-   language use in the digital age

We hope to organise a symposium at the BAAL 2023 conference. We value your opinions and would like to prioritise topics that are of interest to you (either as a contributor or as an attendee)! 

We’ve prepared a list of potential topics and we would like to hear from you! Please fill out the form here by 31st October 2022 and let your voices be heard! We also welcome informal enquiries on potential contributions and collaborations (email: open-al@outlook.com). 

Please note the following timeline for the conference: we will choose the symposium topic based on the survey results and submit to BAAL 2023 for review (submission deadline 18th November 2022). If accepted, we will then send out invitations and an open call for individual submissions to this symposium (window of submission between 16th December 2022 and 17th March 2023).

Please kindly help us circulate the form to anyone who might be interested and we look forward to hearing from you!

All the best,

Meng and Sin Wang

Convenors of Open Applied Linguistics (AILA Research Network)