After celebrating half a century of BAAL in 2017, our theme, Taking Risks in Applied Linguistics, was designed to make the 51st Annual Meeting a testing ground for new ways of pursuing research and improving practice. These are unsettling times for our global community, and language use is at the heart of many of the challenges we face. As you can see from the materials on this website, the 2018 conference provided a space for bold thinking about how we might address some of these challenges. Conference materials available here include: • video recordings of plenary sessions • information about the conference book: Taking Risks in Applied Linguistics • extended abstracts of talks • posters and video posters • the conference programme and abstract bookletWe would like to thank everyone who helped us to organise the conference, including: our student volunteers, the York St John University Events team, Mosaic, our sponsors, the BAAL Executive Committee, and the abstract reviewers. We could not have managed without your help. We hope that you enjoy the materials you find here, and use them to inform your own research, teaching and professional practice. We look forward to meeting you at future BAAL conferences! The Local Organising Committee, BAAL 2018
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