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Call for papers: Workshop on Motion Event Construal in bilinguals and L2 learners

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

New JESLA paper on anxiety, attitude/motivation and success

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 on aptitude and CLI

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

Participants needed for project on multilingualism and memory

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

Renew EuroSLA membership online

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

EXTENSION TO JESLA DEADLINE

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

New JESLA paper on variability in Lx Spanish number marking

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

New JESLA article on units of measure

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

EuroSLA membership renewal

President’s message to EuroSLA We’ve all missed the chance to meet together this summer, but look forward to being in Barcelona in person next year, all being well!   We invite members this year to renew their membership online, as a gesture of support for the Association and its activities, especially in helping early-career researchers. … Continue reading EuroSLA membership renewal

Fourth International Conference on Language Attrition – New Haven, CT, March 24-26, 2022

Due to travel restrictions caused by COVID-19, the conference is now scheduled for March 24-26, 2022 at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven Connecticut. Abstracts are accepted through June 1, 2021. Fourth International Conference on Language Attrition and Bilingualism (ICLA 4)