irina elgort

Associate Professor at VUW. Research: reading, vocabulary, mental lexicon, education

[irina elgort @irina_e]

It’s wonderful to see our edited book in print! What a fantastic project - I got to work with an amazing array of researchers and learnt so much from them! Thank you, Anya Siyanova and Marc Brysbaert! We had a ball putting it together. https://t.co/qeHWW1zWxY

[ALANZ: Applied Linguistics in Aotearoa New Zealand @alanz_nz]

2026 Joint ALAA–ALANZ–ALTAANZ Conference with theme "Crossing Paths: Celebrating 50 Years of Applied Linguistics in Australia and Aotearoa" will be held 26-28 Nov 26 at The University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, Australia. https://t.co/yFAND1qoV7. The CFP closes on Mon 18th May

[Vocab@Maryland @vocabatmaryland]

Aaand that’s a wrap! 🥳🎉 Thank you so much for coming to UMD for Vocab@Maryland! Where will the next Vocab@ conference be … ??? 👀👀👀 #vocabatmaryland

[irina elgort @irina_e]

Do reading times predict word learning? An eye–tracking study with novel words | Studies in Second Language Acquisition | Cambridge Core - https://t.co/aoxuIY9KFz Excited to share this important work in collaboration with wonderful Lisi Beyersmann published open access in #SSLA.

[LINGUIST List @linguistlist]

Confs: Vocab@Maryland: Hosted by the Second Language Acquisition program at the University of Maryland, the conference aims to bring together global vocabulary researchers to share ideas and thoughts about various vocabulary-related research topics such… https://t.co/xAa3sEMZIe

[irina elgort @irina_e]

@MaieRyo @TatsuyaNakata2 New research project with Nan Fang. Testing the spacing effect of L2 collocations’ retrieval using measures of different knowledge types, on immediate and delayed post-tests.

[irina elgort @irina_e]

@TatsuyaNakata2 Thank you for inviting me to collaborate on this project @TatsuyaNakata2!

[Luke Plonsky @LukePlonsky]

Call for proposals for #SSLA 2025 Special Issue on Disability and Language Learning, guest edited by Caitlin Cornell and Rob Randez. Really looking forward to seeing this issue come together and to all it might contribute to the field. https://t.co/cfzwpIFFe5

[CUP Linguistics @CambUP_LangLing]

SSLA is pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 Albert Valdman Award is: "Text reading in English as a second language: Evidence from the Multilingual Eye-Movements Corpus" by Victor Kuperman and Noam Siegelman, et al. Learn more and read the paper: https://t.co/274cedGavZ

[irina elgort @irina_e]

New open access publication with Mark Toomer and Averil Coxhead “Contextual learning of L2 lexical and grammatical collocations with and without typographic enhancement": https://t.co/gvSpnNYNwJ

[Tess Fitzpatrick @TessF10]

Research Officer in Applied Linguistics (10 month post, 0.6FTE) - AHRC project investigating the mental lexicon via word association data! @Swansea_AppLing @SUCulture_Comm
https://t.co/LotniD4dss

[irina elgort @irina_e]

Language Power - a new book by Norbert Schmitt! #VocabAtVic

[irina elgort @irina_e]

Averil Coxhead opening #VocabAtVic 10 years after the inaugural conference!

[irina elgort @irina_e]

Looking forward to seeing many friends and colleagues and creating new connections at #vocabatvic next week! The conference programme is ready https://t.co/e02nBneKSY If you are lucky, you may even see the Southern Lights.

[Davide Crepaldi @CrepaldiDavide]

Hey peeps! A new postdoc position is opening up in the lab, on a shared grant with @BottiniRob. Submissions are most welcome from anybody interested in reading, word meaning and statistical learning. Informal inquiries are most welcome! Apply here - https://t.co/7PpHEERLOY

[Bronson Hui @BronsonHui]

🚨Job Alert🚨 Come and work with us! @umdsllc at Maryland is inviting applications for the position of assistant / associate professor of SLA.

https://t.co/jjw5NKDheX

[RMAL @RMALJournal]

Out in RMAL by Irina Elgort, and Aaron Veldre
"Word processing before explicit attention: Using the gaze-contingent boundary paradigm in L2 reading research"
https://t.co/2qmwrxWY1T

[irina elgort @irina_e]

@RMALJournal Thank you for such an efficient editorial and publication process.

[irina elgort @irina_e]

Super excited to share this review paper in @RMALJournal with @AaronVeldre. Read & download free before 18 October https://t.co/keyvaZk477 "Word processing before explicit attention: Using the gaze-contingent boundary paradigm in L2 reading research"

[irina elgort @irina_e]

Visiting @nzilbb Looking forward to learning more about the proto-lexicon project https://t.co/oyM9tdZtPq beautiful @UCNZ campus

[irina elgort @irina_e]

Really enjoyed our #ISB14 symposium. New insights emerge when you hear researchers studying common topics (meaning-making across languages) from different perspectives. Thank you for fascinating talks @SonzogniMarco @5i111011 Lingli DU, Stephen Skalicky, and Anna Siyanova!