Editing Applied linguistics (section)

=== Australia ===
Australian applied linguistics took as its target the applied linguistics of mother tongue teaching and teaching English to immigrants. The Australian tradition shows a strong influence of continental Europe and of the US, rather than of Britain.<ref>Alan Davies & Catherine Elder.(Eds.). 2004. Handbook of Applied Linguistics. 6</ref> Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) was established at a national congress of applied linguists held in August 1976.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://alaa.academy/ | title = Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (home page) | date = September 2011 | publisher = Applied Linguistics Association of Australia | access-date = 28 June 2019}}</ref> ALAA holds a joint annual conference in collaboration with the Association for Applied Linguistics in New Zealand (ALANZ).