The editors of EuroSLA Studies, Gabriele Pallotti, Amanda Edmonds and Ineke Vedder, are happy and proud to announce the release of three new volumes of the EuroSLA book series: Volume 2, a single-authored study by Jacopo Saturno (‘Utterance structure in initial L2 acquisition’), and Volume 3 and 4, co-edited by respectively Camilla Bardel and Laura … Continue reading Three new volumes of EuroSLA Studies!
Dear colleagues and friends, We hope you are well, in good health and hopeful. After months of carefully watching the evolution of the pandemic worldwide, and as much as we would like to see all of you in Barcelona, we have decided to hold the EuroSLA 30 conference (June 30th through July 3rd 2021) in … Continue reading EuroSLA 2021 to be held online
CAN MOTION EVENT CONSTRUAL BE TAUGHT OR RESTRUCTURED? EVIDENCE FROM BILINGUALS AND L2 LEARNERS Organisers: Fraibet Aveledo and Jeanine Treffers-Daller (University of Reading) Workshop Dates: 16-17 April 2021 (online via zoom) CALL FOR PAPERS We invite abstracts for a workshop which will bring together researchers who have studied how motion event construal is expressed by … Continue reading Call for papers: Workshop on Motion Event Construal in bilinguals and L2 learners
A new Open Access paper has just been published in JESLA: Dewaele, J.-M., & Proietti Ergün, A. L. (2020). How different are the relations between enjoyment, anxiety, attitudes/motivation and course marks in pupils’ Italian and English as foreign languages? Journal of the European Second Language Association, 4(1), 45–57. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22599/jesla.65
New publication in JESLA! Bokander, L. (2020). Language Aptitude and Crosslinguistic Influence in Initial L2 Learning. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 4(1), 35–44. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22599/jesla.69
We are researchers based at Newcastle University and we’re carrying out a study on the relationship between speaking more than one language and memory. We need monolingual and multilingual adult English speakers of all ages (older speakers are particularly welcome as long as they have access to a computer). The study takes between 15 and … Continue reading Participants needed for project on multilingualism and memory
Please renew your EuroSLA membership online, as a gesture of support for the Association. Payment instructions are on our website here – http://www.eurosla.org/membership/. We are lucky enough to have healthy finances for now, so we are keeping going with plans for next year for support for workshops and publications, but we need to take a … Continue reading Renew EuroSLA membership online
To mark EuroSLA’s 30th birthday, we are offering a number of celebratory conference fee waivers for EuroSLA 2021 to one corresponding author of each accepted paper submitted to JESLA this autumn (https://www.euroslajournal.org/) – new extended deadline for submission 1 November 2020. Please note, this offer is on a first come first served basis. Publication of … Continue reading EXTENSION TO JESLA DEADLINE
Dear colleagues, the following paper has just been published in the Journal of the European Second Language Association: Gudmestad, A., Edmonds, A., & Metzger, T. (2020). Modeling variability in number marking in additional-language Spanish. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 4(1), 24–34. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22599/jesla.67
A new paper has been published in JESLA – Open Access, of course, as always! Mylläri, T. (2020). Words, clauses, sentences, and T-units in learner language: Precise and objective units of measure? Journal of the European Second Language Association, 4(1), 13–23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22599/jesla.63