Editorial / Editorial

We are at another milestone in the editorship of The Canadian Modern Language Review. With this issue, Sharon Lapkin, professor at the Modern Language Centre, OISE/University of Toronto, completes almost 10 years as co-editor. I wish to acknowledge with deep gratitude the professional knowledge, skills, and experience that Sharon has brought to this job. Under her leadership (initially with Jill Sinclair Bell, then others), CMLR has matured into a respected journal that many Canadian and international scholars view as an appropriate forum for their scholarship. Thank you, Sharon, for your leadership, your critical insight, and your dedication to quality second language education and research in Canada.

At the same time, I am happy to announce that Tracey Derwing will join me as co-editor. Her nomination was approved at the April 2004 board meeting. Tracey is a professor of TESL in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta and a co-director of the Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration (one of five Metropolis Project research centres in Canada). Her research focuses on native speaker/non-native speaker interaction, particularly issues of pronunciation and intelligibility and the effects of native speaker modifications on L2 speakers' comprehension. She also studies the settlement experiences of refugees and immigrants. Tracey teaches introductory TESL courses as well as graduate courses in Teaching Pronunciation, Immigrant Settlement Issues, and SLA Research. A past co-editor of the TESL Canada Journal, Tracey has published widely in scholarly periodicals; she has also published a textbook (with Judy Cameron) for ESL learners. Welcome, Tracey.

There will be a change in Associate Editors. Normand Labrie and Doug Hart, both also from OISE/ University of Toronto, deserve special thanks for the dedicated work and invaluable advice they have provided over the past nine years. Thank you, Doug and Normand.

Richard Clément, Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa, will join Patsy Duff as the second Associate Editor. Richard currently holds a research chair in Bilinguisme et société at the University of Ottawa. Bienvenue Richard.

The Editors gratefully acknowledge the faithful work of Alice Adler from the OISE/UT Library who has prepared this column on a volunteer basis for the last 25 years. Thank you Alice for the many hours of careful work to ensure that we were informed about meetings and conferences.

In addition to the regular articles, you will find in this issue an expanded review by Jan Hulstijn of a recent book, A Philosophy of Second Language Acquisition by Marysia Johnson. Hulstijn's review and Johnson's response contribute to our understanding of the range of factors to be included in a theoretical model of second language acquisition and how such a model needs to be tested empirically.

Larry Vandergrift

Co-editor

La rédaction de La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes (RCLV) aborde un nouveau tournant de son histoire. Ce numéro marque près de dix ans de dévouement à notre revue pour Sharon Lapkin, professeur au Centre des langues modernes de l'Institut d'études pédagogiques de l'Ontario (IEPO/OISE) à l'Université de Toronto. Je tiens à exprimer ma plus profonde reconnaissance à Sharon pour l'expertise, les talents et l'expérience qu'elle a apportés à cette publication. Sous sa direction (avec l'assistance de Jill Bell et de ses successeurs), la RCLV a accédé au rang de revue professionnelle respectée où de nombreux chercheurs du Canada et de l'étranger choisissent de diffuser leurs travaux. Tous nos remerciements à Sharon pour son sens de l'initiative, son esprit critique, et son dévouement à la qualité de la recherche et de l'enseignement des langues secondes au Canada.

Par la même occasion, j'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer que Tracey Derwing s'est jointe à moi. Sa candidature a été approuvée à la...