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The following scholarly sources discuss activities by the European Second Language Association. They may be useful to establish notability and verify content for this article.
Long, Michael (Winter 1990). "The Least a Second Language Acquisition Theory Needs to Explain". TESOL Quarterly. 24 (4): 649–666. doi:10.2307/3587113. The Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) is the only regular international conference (first held in 1977) devoted exclusively to SLA research findings although two new organizations, the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA) and Second Language Research Forum for the Pacific (PacSLRF), will begin holding regular annual SLA conferences in 1991 and 1992, respectively.
James, Carl (October 1990). "Learner Language". Language Teaching. 23 (4): 205–213. doi:10.1017/S0261444800005905. The useful distinction that used to be drawn (Chistophersen 1973) between 'second' and 'foreign' languages seems now to have been abandoned in favour of 'second', as evidenced by the title of one of the most successful British textbooks for the field, Understanding second language acquisition (Ellis, 1985), and the name of the recently formed European Second Language Association (EUROSLA).
Gilquin, Gaëtanelle (January 2015). "At the interface of contact linguistics and second language acquisition research". English World-wide. 36 (1): 91–124. doi:10.1075/eww.36.1.05gil. On the other hand, the possible links between the Outer Circle and the Expanding Circle have hardly been investigated. Typically, the two types of varieties are discussed in separate journals (compare, for example, World Englishes and Studies in Second Language Acquisition) and at different conferences (like the conferences organized by the International Association of World Englishes, IAWE, or by the European Second Language Association, Eurosla).
Cook, Vivian (2009). "Developing links between second language acquisition research and language teaching". Handbook of Foreign Language Communication and Learning. Walter de Gruyter. p. 139. ISBN9783110214246. This new discipline soon had its own journals such as Second Language Research and its own conferences such as the annual European Second Language Association (EUROSLA) meeting.{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
Bassetti, Barbara; Cook, Vivian (2011). "Relating language and cognition: The second language user". Language and Bilingual Cognition. Psychology Press. p. 157-204. ISBN9781136866401. In the 2000s came the first workshop devoted to the topic at the European Second Language Association conference (2002), which included presentations by the present authors with colleagues (Bassetti et al., 2002) and by others (Athanasopoulos, 2002).
