The Faculty of Arts and Humanities held 2018 Roundtable Seminar: Cognitive Perspectives on SLA on 3rd and 4th, November 2018. The purpose of the seminar is to share research findings concerning current cognitive studies in the fields of first and second language acquisition and to explore possible and tangible collaborative research projects among researchers from different institutions in the field. Issues that concern related historical backgrounds, current trends, theories, methodologies, operational methods and techniques, training of research students, etc. are the main focus of this seminar. This year, this annual small-scaled event invited twelve established scholars from 10 universities. Each of them not only presented their current studies, but also have had a heated discussion on the existing problems and future developments in the field of second language acquisition.