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Language Learning
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Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2010
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Call Information:
From: the General Editor,
LANGUAGE LEARNING
A Journal of Research in Language Studies
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/ll
In our continuing desire to widen the scope of LANGUAGE LEARNING, but without giving up our core identity, we wish to actively encourage and invite submission of manuscripts that treat the broad area of cognitive neuroscience of language acquisition and language processing.
The language sciences, as part of the sciences of human behavior are facing daunting new challenges in the questions raised and in the ways these questions are answered. The questions lie at the interface of the life sciences and the social sciences and humanities, and represent substantial challenges both at the empirical and theoretical levels. The issues are deceptively simple: What questions to ask, how to look for answers and how to communicate the results of this quest.
John Schumann et al. in their recent book ( The Neurobiology of Learning, Perspectives From Second Language Acquisition. 2004, Lawrence Earlbaum, Mahwah, N.J., London) have this to say: '' If our thinking about second language learning is not constrained by the biology of learning, and if it is only constrained by an analysis of the product of that learning, then we can say almost anything about underlying mechanisms. .......we can invoke, as though they were real, mechanisms such as an affective filter, cognitive operating principles, noticing, monitoring, pidginization, nativization, cognitive strategies, learning strategies. But ….. should we limit ourselves to metaphors? We can constrain our metaphors with biological knowledge. Second language acquisition is a subfield of Applied Linguistics and is as much psychological as it is linguistic. But just as we are making our links with psychology, psychology is becoming radically biologized....''
The unprecedented advances in imaging technologies and computational capabilities give real hope for major breakthroughs in the coming years in the understanding of human behavior. In other words, for the first time there is a real possibility to establish direct relationships between observed behaviors and their neurobiological substrates, thus allowing for first-order explanations of these phenomena. A true revolution in the way we conceptualize and think about the complex proposition called human existence. The thrust of this exciting new development, of course, is that we can now look at this process in radically new ways, taking full advantage of the dramatic discoveries in the neurosciences and in computer science.
We at LANGUAGE LEARNING - A Journal of Research in Language Studies, as a leading journal in applied linguistics, wish to give concrete expression to these convictions. I am writing now to invite you personally, you, your colleagues and your students to share with us the fruits of your research endeavors and consider our journal as a possible venue for publishing your work.
These are truly exciting times.
Alexander Z. Guiora
General Editor
LANGUAGE LEARNING
A Journal of Research in Language Studies
aguiora@umich.edu
Manuscripts should be sent to:
Prof. Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig
Editor, Language Learning
Program in TESOL/Applied Linguistics
Memorial Hall 313
1021 East Third Street
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405-7005
USA
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