The benefits of ERLA membership are fourfold, pertaining to the following levels:
1. SCIENTIFIC level
- participation in key comprehensive ERL projects
- direct impact on the scope of ERL publications
- partaking in ERLA Special Interest Groups
- carrying out scientific activity under ERLA’s auspices
2. FINANCIAL level
- discounts in ERL conference fees
- support in soliciting funding for research and publications
- preferential involvement in activities designated specially for ERLA members
- joint applications for ERL-related grants
3. PRACTICAL level
- access to ERLA’s researcher databases and ERLA’s FORUM.
- presentation of academic work on ERLA’s website
- use of the functionalities of ERLA’s website designated for the members
- serving the role of reviewers of ERL publications and, possibly, editors of ERL volumes
4. STRATEGIC level
- partaking in decisions concerning ERLA’s further development
- organisation of conferences, seminars, etc. constructed upon ERLA’s framework
- dissemination of research via ERL conferences and ERL publications
- holding the position of national/local ERLA representatives
Additionally, all ERLA members can have their own ERLA personal pages, linked to http://educationalroleoflanguage.org/home/erl-people,
and share content – facts, ideas, concepts, findings – on the ERL Projects’ subpages concerning yearly themes.