Proceedings of the International Meeting on Languages, Applied Linguistics, and Translation – LALT 2012

• Autor(a) principal: Arau Ribeiro, María Del Carmen
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Guerra, Luís, Gonçalves, Ana Cláudia, Moreira Silva, Manuel, Silva, Ana Alexandra, Gonçalves, Olga, Llinás, Susana
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/17979
• topic: Language; Applied linguistics

When representatives Luís Guerra and Olga Gonçalves said that they were hoping to be selected by ReCLes.pt for the next conference, the Board was pleased with their enthusiasm to participate and offer up their traditional conference on Language, Applied Linguistics, and Translation (LALT) for the year 2012 to be remolded under the auspices of a ReCLes.pt event. This exciting challenge was approved for a very busy year of activities: on 27-28 April of the same year, this budding national Association of Language Centers in Higher Education in Portugal had successfully hosted the annual seminar for their European counterpart – CercleS (the European Association of Language Centers in Higher Education). Having been identified as the newest and most burgeoning national member, with 15 member universities and polytechnics in such a small country, CercleS was keen to give ReCLes.pt the opportunity to show its mettle. Based on the pan-European recognition received for the fruitful seminar at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, the ReCLes.pt Board approved the offer and the local organizers at the University of Évora began to lay the groundwork for the conference, seeking further support from Aprolínguas, the Portuguese Association of Foreign Language Teachers in Higher Education, whose experience with ReCLes.pt had proven to be rewarding, thus linking once again two associations with similar missions – one with individual membership and another which is institutional. The colossal efforts of this Cerberus resulted in the International Meeting on Languages, Applied Linguistics, and Translation (LALT) 2012, from which these proceedings are drawn and which aimed specifically to provide “an overview of the current theory and practice, exploring new directions and emerging trends, sharing good practice, and exchanging information regarding foreign languages, applied linguistics and translation” (cf. http://llat2012.blogspot.pt/2012_09_01_archive.html). The opportunity to meet with other researchers is always met with zeal although this time the response was even greater than we had hoped. Sessions were organized to explore each of the three areas and four keynote speakers – Rafael Alejo González...