17th Biennial Association for Academic Language and Learning Conference 2025.
December 3 – 5, 2025
Join us from December 3-5, 2025, for the 17th Biennial Association for Academic Language and Learning (AALL) Conference, hosted by James Cook University (JCU) Learning Centre.
LATEST UPDATE: Early Bird registration is NOW OPEN. AALL is pleased to announce that ten $1200 travel grants will be offered to support the travel of AALL members to Townsville.
About AALL
AALL is a professional association committed to representing and supporting tertiary academic language and learning educators in Australia, and others with an active interest in the field. AALL aims to provide members with opportunities to extend their professional networks and to enhance their practice through discussion, professional development, presentations, publications and research.
AALL members play a vital role in their institutions by providing teaching, support and expertise to assist students in developing appropriate academic skills to enable them to succeed at their studies. AALL acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia where we live, learn and work. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
The first face-to-face conference since 2019 and the twentieth anniversary of AALL’s founding, this event aims to be a space for ALL educators to connect or reconnect. The conference will focus on practice, inviting proposals for interactive events that share how we connect and collaborate with peers, students, academics and third space professionals to create engaging, inclusive 21st century learning experiences.
Conference Themes: Connect, Collaborate, Create
As we reflect on how AALL and the academic language and learning landscape has developed since 2005, this conference aims to explore the following interrelated themes and the questions they raise. These questions include but are not restricted to:
