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DSA Award 2020 goes to Florence Myles and Ros Mitchell

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

Can motion event construal be taught? Pedagogical and experimental approaches to restructuring event cognition patterns

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

Two new papers out in JESLA

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

BEWARE OF SPOOF EMAILS

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

Workshop on Bilingualism and the Brain

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