| Body |  The 2017 conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) took place March 18-21 in Portland, Oregon. CASLS Director Julie Sykes presented on a panel entitled “Extending the Legacy of Leo Van Lier: Ecologizing Pedagogy.” You can see an abstract of her presentation, “An Ecological Perspective on Interlanguage Pragmatic Development: Context, Emergent Patterns, and Variability,” at http://www.aaal.org/?page=InterPragDevelAbs. Having this international-level conference take place so close to CASLS headquarters in Eugene presented an opportunity for other CASLS staff to attend. Research Director Linda Forrest sought and found new research methods and techniques. She especially enjoyed hearing about different approaches to working with the messy language data that we find in the “real world” of complex language systems. Language Technician Christopher Daradics also attended and was grateful to hear about exciting new research happening in applied linguistics.
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