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Anéla is the Dutch Society for Applied Linguistics. We organize activities in the field of applied linguistics in the Netherlands and Belgium and publish the diamond open access journal Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics (DuJAL).

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Anéla/VIOT Junior Research Day 2026

The annual Anéla/VIOT Juniorendag (junior research day) will take place at the University of Amsterdam on Friday 29 May 2026. BA and MA students, recent graduates, and PhD candidates will have the opportunity to present their research in the field of applied linguistics.

Registration is now open!

Please register before May 22, using the registration form

 

 

This edition’s keynote speakers are:

  • Dr. Hielke Vriesendorp (Utrecht University)
  • Dr. Jantien Smit (Utrecht University of Applied Sciences)

Additionally, the annual Anéla-VIOT Thesis Award for the best MA-thesis in the field will be awarded during this day.

AWIA symposium 2026

The next AWIA symposium for researchers working with conversation analysis and discursive psychology based in the Netherlands and Flanders will take place in Utrecht on 29 and 30 October 2026.

The Call for abstracts is open. Deadline: 17 April.

Please note: the language of the symposium is English.

The Dutch Annual Linguistics Day (Grote Taaldag) 2026

The Dutch Annual Linguistics Day (Grote Taaldag) took place on Tuesday, January 27, 2026, at the Science Park (Utrecht University). We organized a very varied program featuring lectures, coffee breaks, the annual Language Gala, and an inspiring keynote by Jimmy van Rijt.

As usual, the AVT/Anéla PhD Dissertation Prize and the LOT Popularization Prize were also awarded at the end of the day during the Language Gala.

This year, Gijs Leenders (Utrecht University) won the AVT/Anéla PhD Dissertation Prize for his dissertation Bewuste taalvaardigheid ontleed: Research into context-rich, language-contrastief, and process-oriented grammar teaching in the subjects of Dutch, English, and German.

More information about the Dutch Annual Linguistics Day is available here.

Anéla Conferentie 2024: Applied Linguistics across boundaries

The 10th Anéla conference took place on Thursday 6 and Friday 7 June, 2024, in Zebrastraat, Gent, Belgium.

Met deze editie wilden we onderzoekers over disciplinaire én landsgrenzen heen samenbrengen. Naast de klassieke presentaties en keynotes was er ook ruimte in het programma gereserveerd voor een activiteit rond kennismaken en samenwerkingen opzetten.

In this edition, we wanted to unite researchers across disciplinary and national boundaries. In addition to oral presentations, poster sessions, and keynote talks, we also organized activities for getting to know fellow researchers, and to set up collaborations.

This edition’s keynotes were presented by dr. Mieke Vandenbroucke (Universiteit Antwerpen) and dr. Bart Deygers (Ghent University).

More information is available here.

AILA 2021

Together with the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Anéla organised the AILA conference – the worldwide association for applied linguistics, AILA 2021, 15 – 20 August.

Twitter: @aila2021NL