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The Canadian Modern Language Review / La revue canadienne des langues vivantes 61.4 (2005) 457-460



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Editorial / Éditorial

We hope that you will enjoy this issue of The Canadian Modern Language Review. We continue our annual tradition of exchanging with The Modern Language Journal an article that we think will be of interest to our readers. We thank John Erskine, Sharon Lapkin, and Heather Lotherington for their help with the difficult task of narrowing down the possibilities. In the end, it was decided that the article by Lorenza Mondada and Simona Doehler, 'Second Language Acquisition as Situated Practice: Task Accomplishment in the French Second Language Classroom' would be most relevant to the CMLR readership. This article originally appeared in the MLJ special issue on Classroom Talks (vol. 88, no. 4, pp. 501–518). The authors' analysis of classroom interactions at basic and advanced levels is an astute examination of the complexities of language development. The CMLR article that will be reprinted in the MLJ is 'Learner Code-Switching in the Content-Based Foreign Language Classroom' by Grit Liebscher and Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain (vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 501–525).

Also of note in this issue are two Focus on the Classroom articles, 'Learning to Speak Everyday (Canadian) French' by Terry Nadasdi, Raymond Mougeon, and Katherine Rehner and 'Language-Related Episodes in an Assessment Context: A "Small-Group Quiz"' by Jennifer Ewald. We're very happy to see that authors are submitting manuscripts to this relatively new section of the CMLR (Focus on the Classroom has replaced A Touch of Class). We encourage more submissions to this section of the journal. Manuscripts should have an explicit pedagogical focus but should also have a strong theoretical framework that is clearly linked to recommendations for teaching.

The remaining articles, 'Comparing Children's Oral Ability in Two ESL Programs' by Joanna White and Carolyn Turner and 'Intégration de la grammaire dans l'enseignment des langues secondes: le cas des exercices grammaticaux' by Gladys Jean, both offer insights that will be of value to researchers and teachers alike.

In addition, we would like to highlight a review of Plan 2013, a report by Sally Rehorick and colleagues, that outlines concrete steps for the federal government to attain its goal of doubling, by 2013, the proportion [End Page 457] of high school graduates functionally proficient in their second official language.

We would like to bring to your attention the Call for Papers for the 2006 Special Issue on research in second language vocabulary acquisition, to be edited by Marlise Horst (Concordia University) and Tom Cobb (Université du Québec à Montréal). The deadline for submissions is December 23, 2005. Vocabulary, always a major concern for language students, has become a priority area of study in applied linguistics, particularly with the advent of technologies that allow analyses that were impractical only a decade ago.

Once again it is time to invite submissions for the Annual Award for the Best Paper by a Graduate Student. The competition is open to students who are currently registered or have graduated in the previous academic year. Papers should be submitted no later than September 1, 2005. Please see the CMLR Web site for further details: www.utpjournals.com/cmlr/.

Finally, we want to thank all of the manuscript reviewers who have shared their time and expertise over the past year (please see the listing on page 603). No journal can function without the support of a strong reviewer base.

Happy reading!

Editors


Nous espérons que vous aimerez ce numéro de la Revue canadienne des langues vivantes. Nous poursuivons notre tradition annuelle d'échanger avec le Modern Language Journal un article qui, selon nous, devrait intéresser nos lecteurs. Nous remercions John Erskine, Sharon Lapkin et Heather Lotherington pour l'aide qu'ils nous ont apportée dans la difficile tâche de la sélection d'un article. Nous avons décidé que l'article de Lorenza Mondada et Simona Doehler intitulé « Second language acquisition as situated practice : Task...

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