Call for nominations
The Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics, AFinLA, is inviting nominations for the Afinlandia Award 2024 in the Master’s thesis series. The awards are presented for theses written in Finland within the field of applied linguistics. We now wish to invite colleagues active in the field of applied linguistics to nominate highly qualified theses for the prize.
We welcome nominations of pro gradu theses completed in institutions of higher education in Finland between August 2023 and July 2024.
Last year, the Afinlandia Award in the MA series was presented to Helmi Marttila (University of Tampere) ”Rephrases for digital accessibility – University academic staff rewording solutions for intralingual subtitles.”
Please find further information about previous award winners here: http://www.afinla.fi/en/afinlandia-awards.
AFinLA is now accepting nominations of high standard theses from all fields of applied linguistics (e.g., language learning, language teaching, language assessment, translation and interpretation, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse studies) completed in institutions of higher education in Finland. The prize amounts to 300 euros. Winning theses are well written with solid and sound theoretical and methodological approaches, and are, for instance,
- socially relevant
- current
- innovative
- explores new fields of research.
We ask you to send nominations by e-mail with the following attachments (original or scanned) as a PDF:
(1) filled proposal form
(2) the statement/s of the thesis.
Please name the appendicesin the following way:
For Master’s thesis
lastnameofthewriter_firstname_MA24_proposal
lastnameofthewriter_firstname_MA24_statement.
The Executive Board of AFinLA r.f. selects the winning theses and announces the winners at the AFinLA Autumn Symposium, this year to be held in 7.-9.11.2024 in Turku. The Award winners will be invited to briefly present their work during the ceremony. For more information about the symposium, please visit:
The deadline for the receipt of nominations is Sunday September 1rst, 2024.
Please send your nominations to:
We are looking forward to receiving many nominations!