EuroSLA EC are delighted to announce two Distinguished Scholar Awards this year: To Prof Florence Myles, for her outstanding influence across the field of second language research, including theoretical SLA, corpus studies and young learners, and for her generosity in motivating the work of others as supervisor, research centre director, journals editor and in public … Continue reading DSA Award 2020 goes to Florence Myles and Ros Mitchell
Second call for papers Organisers: Fraibet Aveledo and Jeanine Treffers-Daller (University of Reading) Workshop dates: 23-24th April 2020 Venue: University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, Graduate School Keynote speakers: Panos Athanasopoulos (University of Lancaster): Thinking in multiple languages: The case of goal-oriented motion events Teresa Cadierno (University of Southern Denmark): Motion event construal in second language … Continue reading Can motion event construal be taught? Pedagogical and experimental approaches to restructuring event cognition patterns
We are announcing the Fourth International Conference on Language Attrition, New Haven, Connecticut, Apr. 1-3, 2021. Plenary speakers will include Robert Adam, Brian MacWhinney, Laura Dominguez and Monika Schmid. Deadline for abstracts: June 15th, 2020. Please share widely!
6th International Conference on Chinese as a Second Language Research Short Title: CASLAR-6 August 5-7, 2020 The George Washington University, USA Call for papers
Dear EuroSLA Members, In the run-up to the end of term for many of us, we are happy to remind members of opportunities to celebrate the excellent research and scholarship within the Association: A reminder of the upcoming deadline for abstract submission for Barcelona – for all information, including on how to apply for student … Continue reading EuroSLA Deadline for abstracts extended
Two new JESLA papers have been published: Pallotti, G. (2019). An Approach to Assessing the Linguistic Difficulty of Tasks. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 3(1), 58–70. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22599/jesla.61 Scherger, A.-L. (2019). Elicited Subject-Verb Agreement in German Early L2 Children with Developmental Language Disorders. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 3(1), 46–57. DOI: … Continue reading Two new papers out in JESLA
Dear all, some members of the Executive Committee of EuroSLA have received an email purporting to be from the president, Clare Wright. Please do not respond if you should receive any such communication! Best wishes, Monika
Location: The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Dates: May 4-5, 2020 Submission deadline: February 15, 2020 Website: http://site.uit.no/lava/bilingualismandthebrain/ Abstract submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=bb2020# The LAVA research group (Language Acquisition, Variation and Attrition) and the the PoLaR lab (Psycholinguistics of Language Representation) at UiT the Arctic University of Norway are pleased to announce the workshop Bilingualism and … Continue reading Workshop on Bilingualism and the Brain
Deadline for Applications is Feb 8th, 2019: A Postdoctoral Researcher position in the psycholinguistics of Heritage Language Bilingualism is available in the Department of Language and Culture at the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway. The position is affiliated with the Psycholinguistics of Language Representation (PoLaR) lab and is connected to a … Continue reading Postdoc researcher position Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism, Tromso, Norway
International conference of Réseau d’Acquisition des Langues Secondes (RéAL2) RéAL2 2020 – “Crosslinguistic influence: Where are we today ?” Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès July 6th– 8th, 2020 Call for papers The term crosslinguistic influence, introduced by Michael Sharwood-Smith (1983), was suggested as an alternative to transfer, given the behaviorist connotations of the latter. Subsequently, … Continue reading RéAL2 2020 – “Crosslinguistic influence: Where are we today?” – Toulouse, 6.-8.6.2020