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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2020

Amanda Edmonds  and
Pascale Leclercq
Amanda Edmonds*
Affiliation:
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3
Pascale Leclercq
Affiliation:
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3
*
*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

This special issue of the Journal of French Language Studies participates in the ‘methodological turn’ (Byrnes, 2013) in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), by presenting five original articles that focus on different methodological issues in studies on various aspects of the acquisition of French as an additional language. We highlight the contributions of the five articles and situate them within the larger discussion on research methodology. We end by arguing for the need for additional attention to methodology in SLA.

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Journal of French Language Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 2: Methodological challenges in SLA: A focus on French , July 2020 , pp. 111 - 115
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