The biennial symposium of the Swedish Association of Applied Linguistics (ASLA) will take place on April 12–13, 2018, at Karlstad University. The symposium is co-organized by the Center for Language and Literature in Education (CSL) and the Department of Language, Literature, and Intercultural Studies (ISLI). 

The 2018 symposium theme is “Classroom research and language/languaging”. As usual, the symposium also welcomes submissions in other areas of applied linguistics. The official conference languages are Swedish and English, and we welcome submissions in these languages. As ASLA also strives to foster collaborations between the Nordic countries, we welcome submissions in Danish and Norwegian.

We have the great pleasure of presenting an impressive trio of keynote speakers: Professor Hansun Zhang Waring, Teachers’ College, Columbia University, New York, Professor Elizabeth Lanza from Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan, University of Oslo, and Professor Christina Olin-Scheller, Department of Education, Karlstad University.