PLL2

PLL2016

Jyväskylä

Following the success of the first international PLL conference “Matters of the Mind: Psychology and Language Learning”, which was held in Graz, Austria, in May 2014, a second PLL conference was held in Jyväskylä, Finland, on 22 – 24 August 2016.

​The conference:

​The conference, which was entitled “Individuals in Contexts: Psychology of Language Learning 2”, aimed to bring together scholars from all over the world interested in the role of psychology in learning and teaching languages.

• Some of the key issues in the field of PLL addressed at the conference, included:
  
• learners and teachers as individuals with all their characteristics, including self-concept, motivation, identities, beliefs, agency, emotions, strategies, styles, etc.
  
• the learning process and its outcomes, and
  
• the diversity of contexts.
  

Conference programme

Plenary talks were delivered by:

• Phil Benson, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
  
• Maggie Kubanyiova, University of Birmingham, UK
  
• Sarah Mercer, University of Graz, Austria

In addition to the plenary sessions, the programme consisted of multiple colloquia, workshops, parallel paper sessions and poster sessions.

Additional information:

The conference was organised back-to-back/in cooperation with the 26th annual conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA), held on 24-27 August 2016.