Dear EuroSLA Member, A very Happy New Year to all our EuroSLA members worldwide – after all we’ve been going through in the last year, I trust this finds you and your loved ones safe and well! I’m delighted to be able to update you on members’ activities, and to highlight recent publications in EuroSLA Studies. … Continue reading New Year’s message from the President of EuroSLA
JESLA, the Association’s journal, is now accepting submissions for JESLA 2021. JESLA publishes the best peer-reviewed work by EuroSLA members. Papers can be submitted at any point, with the advantages of no-cost open access, and fast turnaround; typically time between submission and publication is 6-9 months. For publication in JESLA Volume 5 (2021), we aim to … Continue reading JESLA Call for Submissions
Don’t forget: today is the deadline for confirming your intention to register and present at EuroSLA 2021, if your abstract has been accepted! You can do this here: https://www.softconf.com/l/eurosla2021/
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