Founded in 1977, the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) is a professional organization of scholars who are interested in and actively contribute to the multi-disciplinary field of applied linguistics.

AAAL members promote principled approaches to language-related concerns, including language education, acquisition and loss, bilingualism, discourse analysis, literacy, rhetoric and stylistics, language for special purposes, psycholinguistics, second and foreign language pedagogy, language assessment, and language policy and planning.

Email:  aaloffice@aaal.org
American Association for Applied Linguistics
PO Box 21686  / Eagan, MN 55121-0686, USA
Phone: (612) 953-0805  (Phone) / Fax: (612) 431-8404  (Fax)           

Pat Carrell, President / pcarrell@gsu.edu 
Department of Applied Linguistics/ESL 
Georgia State University / P.O. Box 4099 / Atlanta, GA 30302-4099
Phone:  (404) 651-0255 / Fax: (404) 651-3652

President Patricia L. Carrell is Professor of Applied Linguistics/ESL at Georgia State University, where she has been since 1993. Prior to that time she was a faculty member for 21 years at Southern Illinois University (1968-89) and for four years at the University of Akron (1989-93). At these three institutions she has held a number of administrative appointments in addition to her faculty duties, serving as department chair, associate graduate school dean, graduate school dean, and
collegiate dean. See http://www.aaal.org for more information.

WHEREAS, The American Association of Applied Linguistics endorses appropriate language instruction for immigrant and language minority children that both promotes their acquisition of English and protects their right to maintain and develop their native and heritage languages; and

WHEREAS, A proposed ballot initiative in Arizona "English Language Education of Children in Public Schools" would restrict or remove access to appropriate instruction while introducing harmful educational practices;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED at the general business meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, convened on this 8th day of March, 1999:

1. THAT, The American Association for Applied Linguistics make publicly known its firm opposition to such ballot initiative; and

2. THAT, The American Association for Applied Linguistics offer its services to the government, educational associations, school boards, and parents and children of Arizona so that vital knowledge about language and educational access can be fully considered before decisions are made on this important issue.