Someone recently pointed me to the The European Learning Styles Information Network (ELSIN), which I had not heard of before. It is an organisation in the area of general education but I am sure a lot of their work would be relevant to language learning and teaching to. On their website, (which appears to be down at the moment) they say:

The European Learning Styles Information Network (ELSIN) is an association of academics, researchers, trainers and practitioners in the fields of education, psychology, business, computer science, information systems, management and other related fields who are interested in the theory and application of learning and cognitive styles and strategies of learning and thinking. One of ELSIN’s greatest strengths is its interdisciplinarity.

They are organising a conference next year on ‘learning in higher education’, which includes the following themes:
1. Style in higher education

2. Style in vocational and professional education

3. Student learning styles and strategies

4. Methodologies for researching style in education

5. Putting style research into practice in the classroom

6. Style test development and psychometrics

7. Paradigms and style

For more information about the ELSIN 2009 conference, please contact the conference organisers at: charlesworth@glion.ch or c.evans@ioe.ac.uk