The European Second Language Association (EuroSLA) is a
learned society
A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and science. Membership ...
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 ...
and
second language acquisition
Second-language acquisition (SLA), sometimes called second-language learning — otherwise referred to as L2 (language 2) acquisition, is the process by which people learn a second language. Second-language acquisition is also the scientific dis ...
.
History
EuroSLA was established in
Colchester
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Colchester occupies the site of Camulodunum, the first major city in Roman Britain and its first capital. Colc ...
,
the United Kingdom
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, in 1989 and the first president of the society was
Vivian Cook Vivian Cook may refer to:
* Vivian Cook (linguist) (1940–2021), English linguist
* Vivian E. Cook (born 1937), American politician
* Vivian E. J. Cook (1889–1977) American educator and activist
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. The 2018 president is
Danijela Trenkić (
University of York
, mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £8.0 million
, budget = £403.6 million
, chancellor = Heather Melville
, vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery
, students ...
).
Publications
The ''Journal of the European Second Language Association'' () is published after the annual conferences. The ''EUROSLA Yearbook'' has been published annually by the
John Benjamins Publishing Company
John Benjamins Publishing Company is an independent academic publisher in social sciences and humanities with its head office in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The company was founded in the 1960s by John and Claire Benjamins and is currently managed ...
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 Vivian Cook may refer to:
* Vivian Cook (linguist) (1940–2021), English linguist
* Vivian E. Cook (born 1937), American politician
* Vivian E. J. Cook (1889–1977) American educator and activist
{{hndis, Cook, Vivian ...
*2015 -
David Singleton
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...
*2016 -
Carmen Muñoz
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*2017 -
Michael Sharwood Smith
*2018 -
Jan Hulstijn
Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to:
Acronyms
* Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN
* Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code
* Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group
* Japanese Article Num ...
See also
*
European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing
The European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW) is an academic association supporting scholarly activity in academic writing. The association was first established in 1999 with the first conference being held in 2001. The Eu ...
References
External links
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