This introduction to the Special Issue discusses current theoretical approaches to language
development and their application to aided language development. It also discusses some …

Just as applied linguistics (AL) may be said to be an emerging discipline, so too is one of its
sub-fields, second language acquisition (SLA). The parallelism may not be surprising; after …

Information and communication technologies have never been more interesting due in large
part to their intimate integration into everyday life. Second and foreign language researchers …

The AILA Applied Linguistics Series (AALS) provides a forum for established scholars in any
area of Applied Linguistics. The series aims at representing the field in its diversity. It covers …

Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) is a discipline that has seen recent
developments as a consequence of the worldwide technological revolution. Children with …

It has now been 13 years since Diane Larsen-Freeman published her seminal article on
complex systems and second language acquisition (Larsen-Freeman 1997). As she has …

Applied Linguistics investigates real-world problems involving language. As such it has the
difficult task of mediating between academic expertise and lived experience, attempting to …

Abstract The field of Second Language Acquisition/Development (SLA/D) has evolved to a
point where the paradigm gap between SLA/D and world Englishes (WE), identified by …

Every human learns a first language, many also learn a second. The old monolingual
perception that knowing only one language is the norm is challenged both by the fact that in …

With recent public access to large language models via chatbots, the field of language
education is seeing unprecedented levels of interest in how AI will affect language learning …