From Sarah Liszka and the JESLA editorial team Dear EuroSLA member, We look forward to receiving your submissions for JESLA 2022! JESLA publishes the best peer-reviewed work by EuroSLA members. Papers can be submitted at any point, with the advantages of no-cost open access, and fast turnaround; typically, time between submission and publication is 6-9 … Continue reading JESLA call for papers
Dear EuroSLA member Since 2014, the EuroSLA Executive Committee have been proud to present the membership-nominated EuroSLA Distinguished Scholarship Award at our Annual Conference. In the last two years, the award has been given to Professor Marianne Gullberg in 2019 and Professor Florence Myles and Rosamond Mitchell in 2021. See more here: http://www.eurosla.org/distinguished-scholar-award/ We would like to invite you now to nominate somebody for the EuroSLA Distinguished Scholarship Award 2022 which … Continue reading EuroSLA Distinguished Scholar Award Nominations by 15 February 2022
The Aurora Center for Language Acquisition, Variation & Attrition (AcqVA Aurora) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway is pleased to invite you to the 4th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2022) on August 4th and 5th, 2022. ISBPAC aims to bring together researchers who investigate bi-/multilingualism from various disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, … Continue reading The 4th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2022) (August 4th and 5th, 2022)
EUROSLA is delighted to announce the latest article in our journal JESLA (Volume 5): Ratajczak, M., Indrarathne, B., & Kormos, J. (2021). The effects of read-aloud assistance, vocabulary and background knowledge on comprehension of health-related texts of Sri-Lankan English as second language speakers. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 5(1), 133–147. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22599/jesla.78
Are you organizing a small event in the area of L2 research in 2022? EuroSLA provides limited financial assistance to support it! The deadline for submission is 31st January 2022. Further information here: http://www.eurosla.org/eurosla-workshop-grants-programme/
The EuroSLA Executive Committee is holding a free social webinar for Early Career Researchers on January 7, 2022 at 1400-1530 UK time (click link to convert to your local time). This will be a chance for ECRs (which includes, of course, post-grad students) to catch up at the start of the new year, make some new connections with other … Continue reading EuroSLA social webinar for Early Career Researchers, 7 January 2022 (free event)
We are sad to report the news of Vivian Cook’s passing. Vivian Cook was the EuroSLA founder, its first president, as well as its inaugural Distinguished Scholar. Please see below an obituary by Dr Bene Bassetti. There are two websites at the end of the Obituary for those who want to reflect on Vivian’s … Continue reading In memoriam: Vivian Cook, 1940-2021
And here is another new paper in Volume 5 of our journal JESLA: Koch, E. M., Bulté, B., Housen, A., & Godfroid, A. (2021). Using verb morphology to predict subject number in L1 and L2 sentence processing: A visual-world eye-tracking experiment. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 5(1), 115–132. DOI: http://doi.org/10.22599/jesla.79 JESLA is an open access journal … Continue reading New JESLA paper: Koch, Bulté, Housen & Godfroid (2021)
EUROSLA is pleased to announce a new paper in our journal JESLA (Vol 5): Gilyuk, V., Edmonds, A., & Sneed German, E. (2021). Exploring the evolution in oral fluency and productive vocabulary knowledge during a stay abroad. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 5(1), 101–114. DOI: http://doi.org/10.22599/jesla.80 JESLA is an open access journal and EUROSLA covers all … Continue reading New JESLA paper: Gilyuk, Edmonds & Sneed German (2021)
EuroSLA is pleased to announce a new publication in the EuroSLA Studies Series: Berthele, R. & Udry, I. (eds.), (2021). Individual differences in early instructed language learning: The role of language aptitude, cognition, and motivation. (EuroSLA Studies 5). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5378471 https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/313