The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. This book presents a selection each year of the best research from the annual conference.

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction; 3. The critical period and parameter setting in five cases of delayed L1 acquisition (by Patkowski, Mark); 4. On the optionality in L2 pronominal production and interpretation: What (more) can VP-coordination structures tell us? (by Prentza, Alexandra); 5. Event linearization in advanced L2 user discourse: Evidence for language-specificity in the discourse of Czech and Hungarian learners of English (by Vanek, Norbert); 6. Metalinguistic awareness in children with differing language learning experience (by Tellier, Angela); 7. Methods for studying the acquisition of a new language under controlled input conditions: The VILLA project (by Dimroth, Christine); 8. Initial processing of morphological marking in nonnative language acquisition: Evidence from French and German learners of Polish (by Hinz, Johanna); 9. Attitudes, affect and ideal L2 self as predictors of willingness to communicate (by Munezane, Yoko); 10. Towards an understanding of the impact of intensity and diversity of contact with the TL during study abroad on the construction of identity: The case of non-native speaker teachers of English (by Devlin, Anne Marie); 11. Topic management in French L2: A longitudinal conversation analytic study (by Konig, Clelia)