The Modern Language Journal

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Translanguaging in the Bilingual Classroom: A Pedagogy for Learning and Teaching?
ANGELA CREESE, ADRIAN BLACKLEDGE

Uptake, Modified Output, and Learner Perceptions of Recasts: Learner Responses as Language Awareness
TAKAKO EGI

Identifying Strategies That Facilitate EFL Learners' Oral Communication: A Classroom Study Using Multiple Data Collection Procedures
YASUO NAKATANI

Academic Achievement Through FLES: A Case for Promoting Greater Access to Foreign Language Study Among Young Learners
CAROLYN TAYLOR, ROBERT LAFAYETTE

“I Had a Stereotype That American Were Fat”: Becoming a Speaker of Culture in a Second Language
HANH THI NGUYEN, GUY KELLOGG

In recognition of the significant increase of manuscript submissions to the MLJ over the last few years, in the future the editorial team of the MLJ will include the position of a co-editor. The person holding this position will report to and work most closely with the journal’s editor-in-chief to help shape the journal’s editorial profile, policies, review procedures, and editorial practices regarding received manuscripts as well as other components of the journal.

Qualifications include previous editorial experience under diverse publication conditions, a comprehensive grasp of research and practice in the teaching and learning of foreign and second languages, both in North America and abroad, and a willingness to work under the stringent time lines and expectations of quality associated with top tier journals.

Ideally, work would begin in the fall of 2012, but no later than Jan. 2013, coinciding with the official commencement of the tenure of Heidi Byrnes as the journal’s editor-in-chief. Inquiries about the position and expressions of interest, including a one-page cover letter and current cv, should be sent to byrnesh@georgetown.edu by February 15, 2012.

95.4 will feature:

Ernesto Macaro & Lynn Erler. “Decoding ability in French as a foreign language and language learning motivation”

Jennifer Leeman, Lisa Rabin, & Esperanza Román-Mendoza. “Identity and social activism in heritage language education”

Carolyn Pytlyk. “Shared orthography: Do shared written symbols influence the perception of L2 sounds?”

Naoko Taguchi. “Pragmatic development as a dynamic, complex process: General patterns and case histories”

Keiko Samimy, Soonhyang Kim, Jeong-Ah Lee, & Masataka Kasai. “A participative inquiry in a TESOL program: Development of three NNES graduate students’ legitimate peripheral participation to fuller participation”

Xingsong Shi. “Negotiating power and access to second language resources: A study on short-term Chinese MBA students in America”

David Kellogg & Seonmi Song. “Word meaning as a palimpsest: A defense of sociocultural theory”

Kyoko Masuda. “Acquiring interactional competence in a study-abroad context: Japanese language learners’ use of the interactional participle ‘ne’”

Paul Lyddon. “The efficacy of corrective feedback and textual enhancement in promoting the acquisition of grammatical redundancies”

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