期刊名称：LANGUAGE LEARNING
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Language Learning is a scientific journal dedicated to the understanding of language learning broadly defined. It publishes research articles that systematically apply methods of inquiry from disciplines including psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, educational inquiry, neuroscience, ethnography, sociolinguistics, sociology, and semiotics. It is concerned with fundamental theoretical issues in language learning such as child, second, and foreign language acquisition, language education, bilingualism, literacy, language representation in mind and brain, culture, cognition, pragmatics, and intergroup relations. Since 1994, subscription includes an annual supplement - a volume from the Best of Language Learning Series or the Language Learning Monograph Series. From 2006 there will also be a biennial Monograph, the Language Learning-Max Planck Institute Cognitive Neurosciences Series.
Instructions to Authors
Instructions for Contributors
Language Learning is an international journal that publishes rigorous, original empirical research as well as systematic critical literature reviews and innovative methodological contributions. Domains covered include first and second language acquisition in naturalistic as well as tutored contexts, including second language, foreign language, and bilingual education, as well as immersion programs and study abroad. All disciplinary perspectives are welcome, from linguistics and psychology to education, anthropology, sociology, cognitive or the neurosciences.
As one of the premier peer-reviewed journals in the field of applied linguistics, established in 1948 at the University of Michigan, Language Learning strives to promote research of the highest quality, from thorough literature reviews and solid theoretical frameworks to rigorous data analysis, cogent argumentation and clear presentation.
Submissions must match the aims, scope, and style requirements of the journal.
Manuscripts considered for publication will be reviewed for their presentation and analysis of new empirical data, expert use of appropriate research methods, and rigorous development of theories relevant to problems in language studies-with the guiding criterion of providing distinct increments in existing knowledge. Methods sections must be detailed enough to allow the replication of research. Theoretical accounts should be internally consistent, explanatory, and predictive. Language Learning also invites review articles that systematically analyze data, concepts, and results from previous studies to clarify trends and issues in language research and to inform readers of trends in developing fields of language study. When reporting research using quantitative and statistical methods, authors submitting to Language Learning are required to provide measures of effect sizes, at least for the major statistical contrasts which they report (see Editor's Statement, Volume 50, Issue 3 for detailed guidance).
Authors should send an electronic copy of their manuscript with all author identification removed, but including the title and the abstract, along with a single-page document containing the authors' affiliation, address, e-mail, FAX and phone number. Both of these should be attached to the same e-mail indicating that the manuscript is being submitted in order to be evaluated for publication in Language Learning. Submissions should be made to the Journal Editor, Robert DeKeyser.
Attachments should be in pdf format. Manuscripts must conform to the specifications of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th edition, and authors should verify that the reference list corresponds exactly to the text.
If the paper was presented at a meeting, an acknowledgment note should give the title of the meeting, the name of the sponsoring organization, the exact date(s) of the meeting or paper presentation, and the city in which the meeting was held. All manuscripts are to be accompanied by an abstract of 100 to 120 words (see Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th edition, section 1.07). Published papers are usually less than 10,000 words.
Manuscripts will be considered for publication with the understanding that they are being submitted to Language Learning only and that all pertinent sources of support and information have been acknowledged. Language Learning will not consider articles that have been published or are being considered for publication elsewhere.
Review process. Articles suitable for the journal are typically sent to at least three reviewers drawn from among experts in the field. The names of all reviewers consulted are printed in the journal annually.
Language Learning processes manuscripts in a prompt and professional fashion. To expedite peer reviews and ensure the highest level of expertise in the review process, some manuscripts will be forwarded to the Associate Editor, Rob Schoonen, who will serve as the action editor in those cases.
Correspondence. Please direct your correspondence (please include your telephone number[s], Internet address, and institutional affiliation) to the appropriate person listed below:
For submission of manuscripts, and questions about them, contact:
Robert DeKeyser
Editor, Language Learning
3104 Jimenez Hall
University of Maryland at College Park
College Park MD 20742
USA
e-mail: langlearn@umd.edu
For submission of grant applications, questions about business matters,
and the Best of Language Learning series, contact the Executive Director:
Alister Cumming
Modern Language Centre
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
University of Toronto
252 Bloor Street West, 10th floor
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5S 1V6
Tel: (416) 923-6641, ext. 2538
Fax: (416) 926-4769
e-mail: acumming@oise.utoronto.ca
For questions about general editorial policy and other book series,
contact the General Editor:
Nick C. Ellis
Language Learning
University of Michigan
1190 Undergraduate Science Building
204 Washtenaw Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2215
Tel: 734-764-0353
e-mail: ncellis@umich.edu
NEW: Online production tracking is now available for your article through Blackwell's Author Services.
Author Services enables authors to track their article - once it has been accepted - through the production process to publication online and in print. Authors can check the status of their articles online and choose to receive automated e-mails at key stages of production. The author will receive an e-mail with a unique link that enables them to register and have their article automatically added to the system. Please ensure that a complete e-mail address is provided when submitting the manuscript. Visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor for more details on online production tracking and for a wealth of resources including FAQs and tips on article preparation, submission and more.
Editorial Board
General Editor
Nick C. Ellis
Professor of Psychology
Research Scientist English Language Institute
University of Michigan
401 E. Liberty St., Ste. 350
Ann Arbor MI 48104-2298
USA
Phone: 734-647-0455
Fax: 734-763-0369
e-mail: ncellis@umich.edu
Journal Editor
Robert DeKeyser
3104 Jimenez Hall
University of Maryland at College Park
College Park, MD 20742
USA
e-mail: langlearn@umd.edu
Associate Journal Editor
Rob Schoonen
Dept. of Second Language Acquisition
Faculty of Humanities
University of Amsterdam
Spuistraat 210
1012 VT Amsterdam
Tel: +31 20 5253848/-4615
Fax +31 20 5253021
e-mail: rob.schoonen@uva.nl
Best of Language Learning Series Editor
Alister H. Cumming
Modern Language Centre
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
University of Toronto
252 Bloor Street West, 10th Floor
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5S 1V6
Phone : (416) 923 - 6641, ext. 2538
Fax: (416) -926-476
e-mail: acumming@oise.utoronto.ca
Monograph Series Editor
Lourdes Ortega
Department of Second Language Studies
University of Hawai'i
1890 East-West Rd.
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808)956-8610
Fax: (808)956-2802
e-mail: lortega@hawaii.edu
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