◾ encourage discussion of different research topics and perspectives on second language acquisition

◾ encourage cooperation between working groups and individual scholars

◾ share the preliminary results of ongoing research

◾ organizes meetings, seminars, study days, presentations

◾ models of development of non-mother tongues

◾ interlanguage structure

◾ data collection methods

◾acquisition analysis models

◾ non-mother tongues and migrations

◾second languages and literacy 

     etc.