AILA is the acronym for Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée or International Association of Applied Linguistics.

AILA is the international federation of national or regional associations of Applied Linguistics. Through its member associations, AILA currently has a membership of more than 8.000 individuals worldwide who as researchers, policy makers or practitioners are active in the field of Applied Linguistics.

Applied Linguistics is an interdisciplinary field of research and practice dealing with practical problems of language and communication that can be identified, analysed or solved by applying available theories, methods and results of Linguistics or by developing new theoretical and methodological frameworks in Linguistics to work on these problems. Applied Linguistics differs from Linguistics in general mainly with respect to its explicit orientation towards practical, everyday problems related to language and communication.

The problems Applied Linguistics deals with range from aspects of the linguistic and communicative competence of the individual such as first or second language acquisition, literacy, language disorders, etc. to language and communication related problems in and between societies such as e.g. language variation and linguistic discrimination, multilingualism, language conflict, language policy and language planning.

AILA is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) enjoying Status B (mutual information and consultation) with UNESCO.

China English Language Education Association(CELEA) is a professional organization founded in 1981. CELEA aims at promoting academic research in the field of applied linguistics, improving English language teaching in China and encouraging the academic communication among the domestic and the international scholars. CELEA became the affiliate of AILA in 2001.

CELEA organizes the International Conference on English Language Teaching in China in every three years and holds annual meeting every year between the ELT conferences. Besides this, CELEA also helps organize research and academic activities in many relevant fields, such as The 2006 International Symposium of Computer Assisted Language Learning, The 1st National Symposium on English Public Speaking in 2007 and The 6th Pacific Second Language Research Forum in 2008.

Teaching English in China(TEIC) is the journal of CELEA. It is a bimonthly co-published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press & the Cultural and Education Section of British Embassy. TEIC is the only English academic journal in China devoted to publishing papers in English teaching theories and practice. Having published 79 issues, TEIC acts as the active professional forum for international communication in English language education field.