MLJ- Special Issue Announcement

[Leo VanLier]

Francis, would it be possible to post the following message to the list? 
Many thanks!
Leo


 The Modern Language Journal
Special Issue, Summer 2008

Second Language Development 
as a Dynamic Process

Guest Editor: Kees de Bot


The MLJ is pleased to announce the publication of issue 92.2 entitled
Second Language Development as a Dynamic Process. 
It is a Special Issue on the topic of Dynamic 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
Dynamic Aspects of Language Development sponsored by Language Learning,
which was part of the 2006 annual conference of the American and Canadian
Associations of Applied Linguistics (AAAL and CAAL). The audience’s
interest in this topic mirrored an earlier experience at the 2006 Teachers
of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL) convention in
Orlando, Florida.
 
Inspired by such a high level of interest in the topic, this Special Issue
was put together in the hopes that it would on the one hand set a
milestone in the introduction of new ideas on complexity and dynamic
systems in the field of applied linguistics and on the other hand allow a
larger audience to get a state-of-the-art overview of these ideas.
 
A list of featured content appears below for your convenience. We hope you
will enjoy reading the issue.
 
Sincerely,
 
The Editorial Office, The Modern Language Journal
Prof. Leo van Lier, Editor
mlj at miis.edu

 
The Modern Language Journal, Volume 92, Number 2, Summer 2008
Special Issue: Second Language Development as a Dynamic Process, Guest
Editor: 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: An
Introduction"
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,
Language Change, and Language Acquisition"
Nick C. Ellis

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

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



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