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EuroSLA Distinguished Scholar Award 2023 goes to Paul Meara

EuroSLA EC is delighted to announce that this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award will be Professor Paul Meara. Paul’s award recognises his lasting scholarly contribution to SLA research as an inspirational and supportive leader to generations of SLA and vocabulary researchers. He created and maintains the Lognostics website, which includes the largest freely available … Continue reading EuroSLA Distinguished Scholar Award 2023 goes to Paul Meara

JESLA, Volume 6 (2022): The best article prize

The prize for the best JESLA paper published in Volume 6 (2022) goes to Audrey Rousse-Malpat, Rasmus Steinkrauss, Martijn Wieling and Marjolijn Verspoor for their paper “Communicative language teaching: Structure-Based or Dynamic Usage-Based?” The prize will be presented at the 32nd EUROSLA conference in Birmingham. Congratulations to the authors!

JESLA special offer: publish in JESLA go to EUROSLA for free!

Special offer available between 1 July and 30 September 2023: JESLA is offering fee-waivers to one corresponding author of each accepted paper that is submitted to JESLA between 1 July and 9 October 2023 (https://www.euroslajournal.org/). Fee waivers will be valid for one EuroSLA conference place within two years of paper acceptance. Any queries about submission … Continue reading JESLA special offer: publish in JESLA go to EUROSLA for free!

Recording of the EuroSLA early career webinar on post-PhD opportunities

As part of the EuroSLA early career webinar on Post-PhD opportunities, Luke Plonsky spoke on the topic of Marketing and Branding your(academic)self. Watch the video of Luke’s talk here

New JESLA paper, March 2023

We are pleased to announce the latest JESLA paper: Roehr-Brackin, K., Loaiza, V., & Pavlekovic, R. (2023). Language learning aptitude in older adults. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 7(1), 1–15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22599/jesla.93 JESLA (The Journal of the European Second Language Association) is open for submission all year round, and publishes all work as open … Continue reading New JESLA paper, March 2023

Registration for EuroSLA 32 opens

Registration and on-campus accommodation booking for EuroSLA 32 are now open. All details here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/…/eurosla-32/index.aspx

EuroSLA Early Career Webinar on Post-PhD Opportunities (Feb 24)

We are holding our next free social webinar for Early Career Researchers on February 24, 2022 at 1000-1130 UK time (click link to convert to your local time) on the topic of ‘What comes next after a PhD?‘ This will be a chance for ECRs (which includes, of course, post-grad students) to catch up with each other, … Continue reading EuroSLA Early Career Webinar on Post-PhD Opportunities (Feb 24)

Deadline extended for the JESLA special issue

Please check the extended deadlines below: To commemorate the legacy of Vivian Cook, founder of EuroSLA, we have launched a Special Issue Call for JESLA at our conference at Fribourg in August 2022. This Special Issue calls for an interdisciplinary range of papers that are grounded in a specific aspect of Vivian’s contributions to second … Continue reading Deadline extended for the JESLA special issue

EUROSLA 32 DEADLINE EXTENDED

The submission deadline for #EuroSLA32 abstracts has been extended to Sunday, 12 February 2023. Please visit the conference website for the call for proposals.

Summary of top tips: How to write a really good abstract

Following our successful ECR Webinar, Clare Wright (EuroSLA President) and Matthew Pattemore (Executive Committee ECR representative) have written up a summary on how to write a really good conference abstract. Read it here: Webinar on abstracts for Early Career Researchers Dec 2022