Welcome to JESLA: the Journal of the European Second Language Association. This third issue comprises the best papers submitted to JESLA for Issue 03. The winners of the JESLA 2019 best article award are Kristof Baten and Frederik Cornillie for their paper “Elicited imitation as a window into developmental stages".

The editorial team would like to thank reviewers who gave their expertise and valuable time to review the papers and all those who submitted papers to the journal for consideration.

Sarah Liszka (Journal Editor)

Danijela Trenkic (outgoing EuroSLA president and JESLA Editor-in-Chief)

Research

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  Elicited imitation as a window into developmental stages

  Kristof Baten,  Frederik Cornillie

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  18 Jul 2019

  3(1):23–34
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  Elicited Subject-Verb Agreement in German Early L2 Children with Developmental Language Disorders

  Anna-Lena Scherger

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  18 Dec 2019

  3(1):46–57

Method Article

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  The role of Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) as sensitive measures in L2 vocabulary acquisition research

  Bert Vandenberghe,  Maribel Montero Perez,  Bert Reynvoet,  Piet Desmet

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  09 Dec 2019

  3(1):35–45
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  An Approach to Assessing the Linguistic Difficulty of Tasks

  Gabriele Pallotti

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  18 Dec 2019

  3(1):58–70

EuroSLA Keynote

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  Policy recommendations for language learning: Linguists’ contributions between scholarly debates and pseudoscience

  Raphael Berthele

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  28 May 2019

  3(1):1–11
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  Structure-sensitive constraints in non-native sentence processing

  Claudia Felser

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  18 Jul 2019

  3(1):12–22