Abstract
We welcome you to our special issue of Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching (SSLLT). Our focus is language learning strategies, or LLS. We have been discussing the need for this special issue for years. Over coffee, sodas, or Chardonnet at many conferences and via emails and Skype, we discussed urgent issues in LLS assessment, research, and instruction.SSLLT, like many journals, has published numerous articles involving LLS, and other journals have had special issues on LLS. However, the time is ripe for a special issue that systematically includes LLS for all language skill areas, all major cross-cutting language subsystems such as grammar, and some important yet often ignored topics, such as strategies for learning culture and for technology-enhanced language learning (TELL), which greatly advances decades of research on computer-assisted language learning (CALL). We have gathered articles from a talented team of researchers, most of them well-known and the others rising stars. The articles in this special issue directly involve LLS research in several world regions and allude to such research in many more regions.
Highlights
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching (SSLLT), like many journals, has published numerous articles involving LLS, and other journals have had special issues on LLS
Language Learning Strategies: Linking with the Past, Shaping the Future, has a triple meaning arising from three perspectives: learner, teacher, and researcher
Learners might not consider how their LLS use is related to all these elements and how these elements are associated with each other, but teachers and researchers should consider these as interacting, shifting, melding, and altering parts of a complex dynamic system (Oxford, 2017)
Summary
SSLLT, like many journals, has published numerous articles involving LLS, and other journals have had special issues on LLS. The articles in this special issue generally describe or define LLS as having many of these features, though phrased in various ways. Language Learning Strategies: Linking with the Past, Shaping the Future, has a triple meaning arising from three perspectives: learner, teacher, and researcher.
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