ICE-lab members Anna Kaal, Sebastiaan Dönszelman and Anne de la Croix are organizers of this year’s ALA (Association of Language Awareness) conference. The conference theme is ‘towards language aware citizenship’ and the event will address a wide array of topics, all with a common theme: language and interaction. Attention will be given to language and education, both in the plenary sessions, the workshops, the papers and the posters. For more information, please see the conference website.