European Second Language Association

{{Short description|Scholarly society based in Colchester, UK}}

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| fields = Second language and second language acquisition

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| leader_name = Roger Gilabert

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The European Second Language Association (EuroSLA) is a learned society for researchers with an interest in second language and second language acquisition.

History

EuroSLA was established in Colchester, the United Kingdom, in 1989 and the first president of the society was Vivian Cook. The 2024 president is Roger Gilabert (University of Barcelona).

Publications

The Journal of the European Second Language Association ({{ISSN|2399-9101}}) is published after the annual conferences.{{cite web |url=https://www.euroslajournal.org/ |title=Journal of the European Second Language Association |date=30 August 2018 |publisher=European Second Language Association}} The EUROSLA Yearbook has been published annually by the John Benjamins Publishing Company since 2000.{{cite web |url=https://benjamins.com/catalog/eurosla |title=EUROSLA Yearbook |date=9 October 2018 |publisher=Benjamins.com}}

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:{{cite web |title=Distinguished scholar award |url=http://www.eurosla.org/distinguished-scholar-award/ |website=EuroSLA |publisher=European Second Language Association |access-date=4 April 2019}}

See also

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