Achilleas Kostoulas

Applied Linguistics & Language Teacher Education

Tag: Second Language Acquisition

Is there a talent for language learning?

This post discusses Language Learning Aptitude, a psycholinguistics construct which refers to a ‘talent’ for learning foreign languages effortlessly.

8 July 2015
Call for papers: Second Language Acquisition: Implications for language sciences (EUROSLA 25)

The 25th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA 25) will take place on 27th – 29th August 2015 at Aix-Marisaille University (France). The conference is organised by the Laboratoire Parole et Langage, in association with the Département de français langue étrangère of the Aix-Marseille University). The general theme of the Conference is “Second Language Acquisition:…

13 January 2015
Positive Psychology in SLA

In what ways can Positive Psychology inform the theory and practice of language education. This edited collection attempts to give some answers.

1 July 2014
Psychology and Language Learning (Call for papers)

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching are planning a special issue which will focus on the psychology of language learning and teaching. The issue will be guest-edited by Stephen Ryan (Senshu University) and Sarah Mercer (University of Graz). UPDATE July 2018: This call for papers appears to have been spectactularly successful, led to the publication of two…

26 June 2014
Arizona Working Papers in SLA and Teaching [Call for Papers]

Update (January 2015) This is a post advertising a call for papers issued by Arizona Working Papers in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching in 2014. The issue advertised below was published in Volume 21, and you can access it by following this link. You can find more Calls for Papers on linguistics, applied linguistics, language education and…

23 January 2014
Productive Foreign Language Skills for an Intercultural World [Call for Chapters].

Update Update: The book announced in the call for chapters below has been published as part of the Peter Lang ‘Foreign Language Teaching in Europe’ series. The full reference is: Paradowski, M. (ed.) (2015). Productive Foreign Language Skills for an Intercultural World: A Guide (not only) for Teachers. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. Call for Chapters This…

1 October 2013
“What is easy and what is hard to acquire in a second language?”

What is easy and what is hard to learn in a foreign language? I just read a chapter in an edited volume on this very question, and this post aims to provide both a synopsis of the chapter and a critical reaction to it. To answer the question, Slabakova (2013) draws on Universal Grammar theory (UG), to…

17 June 2013