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Review of research on language teaching, learning and policy published in 2008

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2010

Richard Johnstone
Richard Johnstone*
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University of Stirling, [email protected]
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The format for the present review is similar to that of previous years, though the number of references to research published before 2008 has been somewhat increased in order to identify a few key studies which have influenced some of 2008's published output. In selecting the texts for discussion, I have sought to offer the reader what I consider to be an overview of key themes emerging from the 2008 research which are in one way or another related to the teaching and learning of additional languages, and policies pertaining thereto. In doing so, I have tried to draw on a fairly broad range of journals, languages, countries, sectors of education and research approaches. However, in the space available (which is generous) I find it possible to discuss only some 80–90 articles out of a field of well over 1000 that would be available, if I had the time and the energy to read them all. Accordingly, there is no sense in which I am claiming that those selected are the cream which has risen to the top. There must be many articles not included in the present review which are equal in quality to those I have been able to include.

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Annual Research Review
Information
Language Teaching , Volume 43 , Issue 4 , October 2010 , pp. 430 - 460
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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