The 2nd Second Language Acquisition Symposium

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The Department of English Language Education (ELE) held the 2nd Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Symposium featuring seven emerging and well-established second language acquisition scholars from Hong Kong and abroad sharing in Opening Keynote online on 5 March 2022.

In particular, Dr Aline Godfroid from Michigan State University has given an overview on eye tracking in second language acquisition; Dr Jookyoung Jung from The Chinese University of Hong Kong shared her views on the effects of pragmalinguistic support on a collaborative suggestion-giving task. Dr Gavin Bui from The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong elaborated on the creativity, functional adequacy and linguistic performance in young learners’ EFL writing. Dr Xuyan Qiu from the Hong Kong Metropolitan University discussed the impact of task complexity on second language learner engagement. Dr Gaia Chiuchiu from the University of Portsmouth and Dr Alessandro Benati from the University of Hong Kong compared the effects of structured input and textual enhancement in the acquisition of Italian subjective of doubt forms. And Dr Pauline Mak discussed peer feedback in second language writing. The symposium was well received by all the 230 researchers and postgraduate students attending the event.