THE 8th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA) conference will take place April 27 to 30, 2006, at the Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta, Canada. The conference is sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

　　Papers in any area of Second Language Acquisition are welcome. GASLA 2006 attracts approximately 100 participants. Presenters come from North America, South America, Europe and Asia. One keynote speaker is Professor Susanne Carroll, Department of Linguistics, University of Calgary, Canada. She has published extensively on the role of feedback and correction in second language acquisition, as well as on the status and nature of input in language teaching. Another speaker is Professor William O'Grady, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaii, US. His primary research interests fall into three areas-syntactic theory, language acquisition, and Korean. Dr Johanne Paradis, University of Alberta, Canada, will also speak at the conference. Her research interests include first, second and bilingual language acquisition and specific language impairment in children.

　　Established at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992, GASLA is a biannual international conference. It is devoted to mentalist aspects of Second Language Acquisition, such as the description of nonnative grammars, similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition and sentence processing in nonnative acquisition.

　　Meetings have been held at institutions with strong research contributions to the field of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US; City University of New York, US; McGill University, Canada; Carnegie Mellon University, US; University of Ottawa/Carleton University, Canada and Indiana University, US.

　　For more information, please go to the website: http://www.ss.ucalgary.ca/.