HAAL 2025
Call for Papers
The HAAL 2025 conference welcomes proposals in all areas of applied linguistics. While there is no specific conference theme, we are particularly interested in innovative and rigorous topics that demonstrate strong methodological and/or theoretical approaches. Additionally, we encourage postgraduate students who are nearing completion of their theses to submit proposals as well.
Submission Guidelines
Please submit abstracts of a maximum of 200 words at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=haal2023
Each proposal should clearly indicate the objectives, methods, and (preliminary) results where appropriate. All accepted proposals will be presented in the form of ‘individual papers’. For each paper, the presenter(s)should speak for no more than 20 minutes, followed by a 5-min Q&A session. Each presenter is limited to one individual presentation OR one joint presentation.
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Deadline of abstract submission: May 9, 2025.
Publications
All presenters are welcome to submit their papers for the “Special Issue for HAAL 2025 Conference” in the Asian Journal of English Language Teaching (AJELT), published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. AJELT is published in the gold open access mode, which means that there is no author fee, and all published papers are free to download
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Andy Gao Xuesong
The University of New South Wales, Australia
Professor Andy Gao Xuesong is a language teacher educator at the School of Education, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, University of New South Wales Australia. His research interests include international students’ educational experiences, language learner agency, language and literacy education, language education policy and language teacher education.
Over the years, he has been promoting the use of sociocultural/ecological perspectives to understand language learner's strategy use and language teacher agency. Relevant publications have appeared in journals such as English Language Teaching Journal, Journal of Language, Identity and Education, Language Teaching, Language Teaching Research, Studies in Higher Education, System, Teaching and Teacher Education, and TESOL Quarterly. He edits International Journal of Applied Linguistics for WILEY and is an executive editor for Teaching and Teacher Education for Elsevier. In addition, he co-edits the English Language Education book series for Springer He also serves on the editorial boards of journals including Applied Linguistics Review, The Asia Pacific Education Researcher, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Journal of Language, Identity and Education, Modern Language Journal, Language Awareness, Language Learning Journal, and Teacher Development.
He received the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, University of New South Wales in 2022. He was the Faculty’s Outstanding Young Researcher (2015) at the Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, a co-recipient of TESOL Award for an Outstanding Paper on NNEST issues (2012-2013), and has been named as one of 30 Up and Coming at TESOL International’s 50th anniversary.
Conference Schedule
Registration Fee (Non-refundable)
HAAL Members (lunch included)
HAAL Members enjoy a discounted registration fee of HKD400.
Please use the same email for your HAAL membership application while registering for this conference to enjoy the discounted rate.
Venue
The conference will be held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Organising Committee
Dr. Barry Bai
President
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dr. Gavin Bui
Immediate Past President
The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
Dr. Benjamin Moorhouse Treasurer
Hong Kong Baptist University
Dr. George Braine
Advisor
ELT Consultant
Prof. Icy Lee
Advisor
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dr. Mable Chan
Secretary
Hong Kong Baptist University
Dennis Chau
Outreach Officer
Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Dr. Daniel Fung
Committee Member
The University of Hong Kong
Dr. Phoenix Lam
Committee Member
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dr. Ricky Lam
Past President
Hong Kong Baptist University
Dr. Danny Leung
Committee Member
Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Ms. Emily Lui
Assistant Secretary
PolyU Hong Kong Community College
Dr. Qing Ma
Webmaster
The Education University of Hong Kong
Dr. Matthew Sung
Committee Member
City University of Hong Kong
Dr. Melinda Whong
Committee Member
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Sponsors
HAAL would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Faculty of Education at The Chinese University of Hong Kong for their kind support and sponsorship.
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