Second Language Research
Second Language Research is an international peer-reviewed, quarterly journal, publishing original theory-driven research concerned with second (and additional) language acquisition and second language performance. This includes both experimental studies and contributions aimed at exploring conceptual issues. In addition to providing a forum for investigators in the field of non-native language learning, it seeks to promote interdisciplinary research which links acquisition studies to related non-applied fields such as neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, theoretical linguistics, bilingualism, and first language developmental psycholinguistics.
Note that studies of foreign language teaching and learning are outside the scope of Second Language Research, unless they make a substantial contribution to understanding the process and nature of second language acquisition. Types of publications include full-length research articles (about 9,000 words), research notes (about 4,000 words), review articles of recent books or timely topics (about 5,000 words), discussion and commentary (about 5,000 words), invited keynote articles (about 11,000 words) and guest-edited, thematic issues.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Electronic access:
Second Language Research is available to browse on SAGE Journals Online.
“Second Language Research is a central resource in the field, especially for cutting-edge work on linguistic and cognitive issues in SLA. It is clearly among our first-tier journals.” Professor Michael Long University of Maryland, USA
Second Language Research publishes theoretical papers, original research and review articles on simultaneous or consecutive second and additional language acquisition in children and adults. In addition to providing a forum for investigators in the field of non-native language learning, the journal seeks to promote interdisciplinary research which links second language acquisition studies to related non-applied fields such as:
* Theoretical linguistics focused on second and additional language acquisition
* Neuroscience and cognitive science
* First language developmental psycholinguistics
* Heritage language studies
* Psycholinguistics.
The journal does not publish papers that focus on educational and pedagogical issues in language teaching and language testing.
| Silvina A. Montrul | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| Roumyana Slabakova | University of Southampton, UK and University of Iowa, USA |
| Margaret Thomas | Boston College, USA |
| Charles Chang | Boston University, USA |
| Esther de Leeuw | Queen Mary University of London, UK |
| Guilherme Duarte Garcia | Université Laval, Canada |
| Jeff Holliday | University of Kansas, USA |
| Alice Foucart | Nebrija University, Madrid, Spain |
| James Pankhurst | Germany |
| Michael Sharwood Smith | Heriot-Watt University, UK |
| John Archibald | University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
| Soondo Baek | Kookmin University, South Korea |
| Joe Barcroft | Washington University in St. Louis, USA |
| Shannon Barrios | University of Utah, USA |
| Melissa Bowles | University of Illinois, USA |
| Ellen Broselow | State Univ of New York at Stony Brook, USA |
| Jennifer Cabrelli | University of Illinois Chicago, USA |
| Susanne Carroll | University of Calgary, Canada |
| Juli Cebrian | Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain |
| Vasiliki Chondrogianni | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Ian Cunnings | University of Reading, UK |
| Alejandro Cuza | Purdue University, USA |
| Laurent Dekydtspotter | Indiana University, USA |
| Laura Dominguez | University of Southampton, UK |
| Paola Escudero | University of Western Sydney, Australia |
| Claudia Felser | University of Potsdam, Germany |
| Suzanne Flynn | MIT, USA |
| Alison Gabriele | University of Kansas, USA |
| Theres Grüter | University of Hawaii, USA |
| Marianne Gullberg | University of Lund, Sweden |
| Ayse Gürel | Bogaziçi University, Turkey |
| Rachel Hayes-Harb | University of Utah, USA |
| Julia Hershensohn | University of Washington , USA |
| Makiko Hirakawa | Chuo University, Japan |
| Brad Hoot | DePaul University, USA |
| Holger Hopp | Technical University Braunschweig, Germany |
| Shunji Inagaki | Doshisha University, Japan |
| Tania Ionin | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA |
| Jill Jegerski | University of Illinois, USA |
| Alan Juffs | University of Pittsburgh, USA |
| Ji-Hye Kim | Korea National University of Education, South Korea |
| Helen Koulidobrova | Central Connecticut State University, USA |
| Tania Leal | The University of Arizona, USA |
| Ronald Leow | Georgetown University, USA |
| Juana Liceras | University of Ottawa, Canada |
| Ziyin Mai | City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Theo Marinis | University of Reading, UK |
| Natalia Mitrofanova | The Arctic University of Norway, Norway |
| Florence Myles | University of Essex, UK |
| Eriz Pelzl | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China |
| Silvia Perpinan | Universidad Pompeu Frabra, Spain |
| Manfred Pienemann | University of Paderborn, Germany and University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK |
| Philippe Prevost | Universite Francois Rabelais, France |
| Leah Roberts | York University, UK |
| Jason Rothman | UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway and University Nebrija, Spain |
| Ana Isabel Schwartz | University of Texas, El Paso, TX, USA |
| Bonnie Schwartz | University of Hawaii, USA |
| Christine Shea | University of Iowa, USA |
| Miquel Simonet | University of Arizona, USA |
| Neal Snape | Gunma Prefectural Women's University, Japan |
| Antonella Sorace | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Rex Sprouse | Indiana University, USA |
| Yi-ching Su | National Taiwan Tsinghua University, Taiwan |
| Gretchen Sunderman | Florida State University, USA |
| Yuichi Suzuki | Kanagawa University, Japan |
| Annie Tremblay | University of Kansas, USA |
| Ianthi Maria Tsimpli | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Marit Westergaard | The Arctic University of Norway, Norway |
| Lydia White | McGill University, Canada |
| Seth Wiener | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Virginia Yip | Chinese University of Hong Kong, China |
| Martha Young-Scholten | Newcastle University, UK |
| Boping Yuan | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China / University of Cambridge, UK |
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