{"id":31523,"date":"2019-10-03T09:46:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T07:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/?p=31523"},"modified":"2019-10-03T09:59:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T07:59:57","slug":"broadening-the-scope-of-l2-complexity-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/en\/broadening-the-scope-of-l2-complexity-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadening The Scope of L2 Complexity Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>14-15 November 2019, Vrije Universiteit Brussel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are happy to announce that registration is now open for our upcoming colloquium\u00a0entitled: \u201cBroadening The Scope of L2 Complexity Research\u201d, which will take place at\u00a0the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels) from November 14-15, 2019\u00a0(see description below and attached programme).\u00a0<br><br>The colloquium is open for anyone who is interested in attending but spots are limited,\u00a0so we kindly ask you to to register by November 1st using the following link:<br><br><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftinyurl.com%2FL2comcoll&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7Ca59831b3c20748de695208d74725bb20%7C7ab090d4fa2e4ecfbc7c4127b4d582ec%7C0%7C0%7C637056099821979125&amp;sdata=zASnJ%2FQbcA0YtkCGdlE5XUgLfwK72HYa81C2nSxmARg%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/L2comcoll<\/a><br><br><em>The past 20 years have seen an upsurge of research on linguistic complexity in second\u00a0language acquisition (SLA) research (often in conjunction with accuracy and fluency;\u00a0Housen &amp; Kuiken, 2009; Bult\u00e9 &amp; Housen, 2012). In recent years, this body of research\u00a0has also been met with criticism (e.g. Pallotti, 2015). Some of these criticisms have\u00a0included: the fact that the construct of L2 complexity is ill-defined, the lack of construct\u00a0validity of the L2 complexity measures that have been used, and the fact that L2\u00a0complexity research has been too narrow in scope, focusing almost exclusively on\u00a0complexity phenomena at the lexical and syntactic level, while ignoring other levels of\u00a0languages such as morphological and phonological complexity or complexity\u00a0phenomena at the interfaces between the traditional levels of linguistic analysis (e.g. the\u00a0lexicon-grammar interface; e.g. Paquot, 2019). This two-day workshop is a response to\u00a0recent calls in the literature (Housen, De Clercq, Kuiken &amp; Vedder, 2018) to expand the\u00a0construct of, and research on L2 complexity beyond the syntactic and lexical levels. As\u00a0such, this workshop directly ties in with our own PhD projects, which also aim to\u00a0expand research on L2 complexity by focusing on complexity in the phraseological\u00a0domain of learner language and other complexity phenomena at the lexis-grammar\u00a0interface (cf. Paquot 2018, 2019).<\/em><br>Kind regards,\u00a0<br>Nate Vandeweerd<br>Rachel Rubin<br>Alex Housen<br>Magali Paquot<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/poster_complexity_colloquium-724x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/poster_complexity_colloquium-724x1024.png 724w, https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/poster_complexity_colloquium-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/poster_complexity_colloquium-768x1086.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14-15 November 2019, Vrije Universiteit Brussel We are happy to announce that registration is now open for our upcoming colloquium\u00a0entitled: \u201cBroadening The Scope of L2 &hellip; <a title=\"Broadening The Scope of L2 Complexity Research\" class=\"bnm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/en\/broadening-the-scope-of-l2-complexity-research\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Broadening The Scope of L2 Complexity Research<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1013],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistics-belgium","bnm-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31643,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31523\/revisions\/31643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}