Foreword (Ortega & Cumming):
"Currents in Language Learning provides programmatic state-of-the-art overviews of current issues in the language sciences and their applications in first, second, foreign, heritage, and bi/multilingual language acquisition in naturalistic and tutored contexts. […]
In this first issue of Currents in Language Learning, board members and editors consider their own areas of enquiry. […]
The research agendas concern the following areas:
- progress and relevance in second language acquisition (Ortega);
- Usage-Based Linguistics (Ellis, O’Donnell, & Ro ̈mer);
- age effects in language learning (DeKeyser);
- second language pragmatics (Bardovi-Harlig);
- vocabulary knowledge (Jarvis);
- transfer of learning in second language instruction (Larsen-Freeman);
- language, literacy, and culture (Cumming);
- academic language development in schools (Schleppegrell);
- Practice Theory (Young and Astarita);
- evolutionary perspectives on language (Schumann).
Really interesting range of papers from the heavy hitters in North American second language research. Free download, plus podcast version.