The Modern Language Journal

The most recent issue of MLJ includes the following must-read content:

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Identity and Activism in Heritage Language Education
JENNIFER LEEMAN, LISA RABIN and ESPERANZA ROMÁN–MENDOZA

Decoding Ability in French as a Foreign Language and Language Learning Motivation
LYNN ERLER and ERNESTO MACARO

Acquiring Interactional Competence in a Study Abroad Context: Japanese Language Learners’ Use of the Interactional Particle ne
KYOKO MASUDA

Shared Orthography: Do Shared Written Symbols Influence the Perception of L2 Sounds?
CAROLYN PYTLYK

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

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

The Percentage of Words Known in a Text and Reading Comprehension
NORBERT SCHMITT, XIANGYING JIANG, WILLIAM GRABE

Second Language Learners' Beliefs About Grammar Instruction and Error Correction
SHAWN LOEWEN, SHAOFENG LI, FEI FEI, AMY THOMPSON, KIMI NAKATSUKASA, SEONGMEE AHN, XIAOQING CHEN

Students' and Teachers' Perceptions of Effective Foreign Language Teaching: A Comparison of Ideals
ALAN V. BROWN

The Spring 2012 issue of MLJ will feature:

Cantonese ESL Learners’ Perceived Relations Between “Similar” First and Second Language Speech Sounds: A Test of the Speech Learning Mode
ALICE CHAN

The Advanced Learner’s Sociolinguistic Profile: On Issues of Individual Differences, Second Language Exposure Conditions, and Type of Sociolinguistic Variable
MARTIN HOWARD

Lexicalized Aspectual Usage in Russian Oral Proficiency Interviews
RICHARD ROBIN

An Investigation of Motivation to Transfer Second Language Learning
MARK JAMES

Dominant Language Transfer in Spanish Heritage Speakers and Second Language Learners in the Interpretation of Definite Articles
SILVINA MONTRUL

Activity Theory and Language Teacher Agency
ANNE FERYOK

Word Knowledge and Its Relation to Text Comprehension: A Comparative Study of Chinese- and Korean-Speaking Second Language Learners and First Language Speakers of Japanese.
YUKIE HORIBA

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