Founded in 1998 by Tony Silva and Paul Kei Matsuda, the Symposium on Second Language Writing (SSLW) is an annual international conference dedicated to the development of the field of second language writing—a transdisciplinary field of specialization that draws from and contributes to various related fields, including applied linguistics, writing studies, education, foreign language studies, literacy studies, rhetoric, and TESOL.
Since its inception, SSLW has been attracting second language writing researchers and teachers from all over the world. It has been hosted by the following institutions:
- Arizona State University, USA
- Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
- Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
- Nagoya Gakuin University, Japan
- National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
- Purdue University, USA
- Shandong University, China
- Simon Fraser University, Canada
- University of Arizona, USA
- University of British Columbia, Canada
- University of Murcia, Spain
Past conference locations and themes are available at Past Conferences. For more information about the Symposium on Second Language Writing, please visit: http://sslw.asu.edu/.