CLUNL

CLUNL had a strong presence at the annual conference of the European Second Language Association – EuroSLA 34, which took place in Tromsø, Norway, from 25 to 28 June.

The researchers of CLUNL presented, altogether, 4 oral presentations and 4 posters, which we list below.

Oral presentations:

– “Linking L2 acquisition and diachronic change: the role of referentiality in pronominalisation” (Joana Teixeira and Alexandra Fiéis)

– “The effect of training modality, instruction type and individual differences in non-native speech learning” (Susana Correia, Yuxin Ge, Gabriela Tavares, Patrick Rebuschat and Anabela Rato)

– “Statistical learning of Chinese characters” (Yuxin Ge and Patrick Rebuschat)

– “Aptitude-treatment interaction research in SLA: A methodological synthesis” (Jiayi Li, Simón Ruiz, Yuxin Ge and Patrick Rebuschat)

Posters:

– “Do Bilinguals Have the Edge? Exploring L3 Perception of European Portuguese Mid-Vowels by Ukrainian–Russian Speakers” (Vita Kogan and Gabriela Tavares)

– “Acquisition of word stress in L2: the role of L1 on the effectiveness of perceptual training” (Gabriela Tavares and Susana Correia)

– “Crosslinguistic difficulty assessed through perceptual assimilation and rated dissimilarity tasks” (Francisco Miguel Valada, Susana Correia, Bastien De Clercq and Alex Housen)

– “Is there an effect of nasality and vowel quality on the ratings of accentedness, comprehensibility, and intelligibility? The case of L2 European Portuguese” (Yolanda Xavier and Susana Correia)

Find out more about this event at: https://www.eurosla.org/conferences/