European Second Language Association

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

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).

The Journal of the European Second Language Association (

ISSN 2399-9101) is published after the annual conferences. The EUROSLA Yearbook has been published annually by the John Benjamins Publishing Company since 2000.

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
• 2019 - Marianne Gullberg
• 2021 - Florence Myles and Rosamond Mitchell
• 2022 - Jean-Marc Dewaele
• 2023 - Paul Meara

• European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing

• Official website