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TOC: The Modern Language Journal 92/2 (2008)

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        1.    Matt Glidden, The Modern Language Journal Vol 92, No 2 (2008)


Message 1: The Modern Language Journal Vol 92, No 2 (2008)
Date: 02-Jun-2008
From: Matt Glidden <blackwellnewsbos.blackwellpublishing.net>
Subject: The Modern Language Journal Vol 92, No 2 (2008)
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Journal Title: The Modern Language Journal Volume Number: 92 Issue Number: 2 Issue Date: 2008


Main Text:

The Modern Language JournalSpecial Issue, Summer 2008

Second Language Developmentas a Dynamic Process

Guest Editor: Kees de Bot

The MLJ is happy to announce the publication of issue 92.2, entitled SecondLanguage Development as a Dynamic Process. It is a Special Issue on the topic ofDynamic Systems Theory, guest-edited by Professor Kees de Bot.

Contributors to this exciting issue include Paul van Geert; Diane Larsen-Freeman& Lynne Cameron; Marjolijn Verspoor, Wander Lowie & Marijn van Dijk; Nick C.Ellis; Carolina Plaza-Pust; and Ulrike Jessner.

This Special Issue is based on the presentations at the Round Table on DynamicAspects of Language Development sponsored by Language Learning, which was partof the 2006 annual conference of the American and Canadian Associations ofApplied Linguistics (AAAL and CAAL). The audience’s interest in this topicmirrored an earlier experience at the 2006 Teachers of English to Speakers ofOther Languages, Inc. (TESOL) convention in Orlando, Florida.

Inspired by such a high level of interest in the topic, this Special Issue wasput together in the hopes that it would on the one hand set a milestone in theintroduction of new ideas on complexity and dynamic systems in the field ofapplied linguistics and on the other hand allow a larger audience to get astate-of-the-art overview of these ideas.

A list of featured content appears below for your convenience. We hope you willenjoy reading the issue.

Sincerely,

The Editorial Office, The Modern Language Journal Prof. Leo van Lier, Editormljmiis.edu

The Modern Language Journal, Volume 92, Number 2, Summer 2008 Special Issue:Second Language Development as a Dynamic Process, GuestEditor: Kees de Bot

"Introduction: Second Language Development as a Dynamic Process"Kees de Bot

"The Dynamic Systems Approach in the Study of L1 and L2 Acquisition: AnIntroduction"Paul van Geert

"Research Methodology on Language Development From a Complex Systems Perspective"Diane Larsen-Freeman & Lynne Cameron

"Variability in Second Language Development From a Dynamic Systems Perspective"Marjolijn Verspoor, Wander Lowie, & Marijn van Dijk

"The Dynamics of Second Language Emergence: Cycles of Language Use, LanguageChange, and Language Acquisition"Nick C. Ellis

"Dynamic Systems Theory and Universal Grammar: Holding Up a Turbulent Mirror toDevelopment in Grammars"Carolina Plaza-Pust

"A DST Model of Multilingualism and the Role of Metalinguistic Awareness"Ulrike Jessner


Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition                             Applied Linguistics