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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">The University of Brussels (VUB) will host a colloquium on cross-linguistic aspects of complexity in second language research <span style="COLOR: #009051">on 18-19 December 2014. </span></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">The goal of the event is to bring together junior researchers working on linguistic complexity and related constructs in the study of L2 structure, use and development. </span><br>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">The event will be structured around individual presentations, with ample time for discussion. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; COLOR: #009051">There will also be keynote presentations by more senior researchers, including by Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (KU Leuven) and Gabriele Pallotti (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). </span></p>
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Topics of interest include theoretical and methodological contributions to the conceptualisation, measurement and comparison of complexity (and related notions such as
<i>difficulty</i>) <i>across languages</i>, the cross-linguistic study of complexity in SLA, as well as the advantages and limitations of the complexity construct for L2 research. </span></p>
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May I ask you to forward this information to junior researchers who may be interested, either at your own university or at other universities?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; COLOR: #009051">Interested researchers are asked to send the title and an abstract of their presentation (400 words, excl. references) by 20 June 2014 to <<a href="mailto:bastien.de.clercq@vub.ac.be" target="_blank">bastien.de.clercq@vub.ac.be</a>>
and <<a href="mailto:mbuysse@vub.ac.be" target="_blank">mbuysse@vub.ac.be</a>>. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; COLOR: #009051">Notifications of acceptance will be sent in the course of July 2014.</span><br>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">Of course, more senior researchers such as yourself are also welcome to attend the colloquium (and possibly even give a talk yourselves).</span><br>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">Unfortunately our budget is limited and we can only reimburse participants' accommodation (one or two nights) and subsistence costs, not travel expenses. </span><br>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">We also intend to publish a selection of the day's contributions in a thematic journal issue or edited volume afterwards. </span><br>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">I look forward to hearing from you or from interested junior researchers soon. </span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">Kind regards, </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"; COLOR: black">Alex Housen</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: "Geneva","serif"; COLOR: black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"; COLOR: #424242">Alex Housen</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"; COLOR: #424242"> |
Professor of English Linguistics and Applied Linguistics | University of Brussels (VUB) | Dept. of Linguistics & Literary Studies | Building B, office 5B435 | Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium | +32 2 629 24 30 | <a href="mailto:ahousen@vub.ac.be" target="_blank">ahousen@vub.ac.be</a> | <a href="http://www.vub.ac.be/TALK/?q=user/21912" target="_blank">www.vub.ac.be/TALK/?q=user/21912</a> </span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"; COLOR: black"></span></p>
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