The European Second Language Association (EuroSLA) is a

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for researchers with an interest in

second language A person's second language, or L2, is a language that is not the native language (first language or L1) of the speaker, but is learned later. A second language may be a neighbouring language, another language of the speaker's home country, or a fo ...

and

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History

EuroSLA was established in

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, in 1989 and the first president of the society was Vivian Cook. The 2018 president is Danijela Trenkić (

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Publications

The ''Journal of the European Second Language Association'' () is published after the annual conferences. The ''EUROSLA Yearbook'' has been published annually by the

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since 2000.

Grants and awards

Distinguished scholar award

The association presents a yearly "best article prize" and a career award "for outstanding scholarship and contribution to the field". Previous winners of the latter award have been: *2014 - Vivian Cook *2015 - David Singleton *2016 - Carmen Muñoz *2017 - Michael Sharwood Smith *2018 - Jan Hulstijn

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