This volume contains 18 papers selected from among those presented at the 2008 Second Language Research Forum, which took place October 17-19, 2008, at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in Honolulu, Hawai'i.

The papers are grouped into sections on second language methodology, measurement, and assessment; L2 processing; L2 phonology; child SLA and bilingualism; and language ideology and policy.

The complete table of contents is available at http://www.lingref.com/cpp/slrf/2008/index.html along with abstracts and the complete papers in PDF format.

This volume has been published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, an imprint of Cascadilla Press. Proceedings from Cascadilla Proceedings Project are published in library binding, with free web access to all of the papers in the proceedings through our web site at www.lingref.com.