Language Learning is a scientific journal dedicated to the understanding of language learning broadly defined. It publishes research articles that systematically apply methods of inquiry from disciplines including psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, educational inquiry, neuroscience, ethnography, sociolinguistics, sociology, and semiotics. It is concerned with fundamental theoretical issues in language learning such as child, second, and foreign language acquisition, language education, bilingualism, literacy, language representation in mind and brain, culture, cognition, pragmatics, and intergroup relations. A subscription includes an annual supplement - a volume from the Best of Language Learning Series or the Language Learning Monograph Series - as well as a biennial monograph - the Language Learning-Max Planck Institute Cognitive Neurosciences Series.

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Supplements and Monographs

The Best of Language Learning Series is a biennial anthology synthesizing the findings of recent work on fundamental issues in language learning. Each volume features a new state-of-the-art review article by the volume editor and selected articles from recent issues of the journal along with updated statements by their authors on the significance of their research. These volumes are suitable for course adoption in graduate seminars related to bilingualism, language acquisition, second and foreign language education, literacy, culture, cognition, pragmatics, and intergroup relations.

Supplement for 2011. Volume 9 in the Best of Language Learning Series:
Task-Based Language Learning
Edited by Peter Robinson, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo

Supplement for 2009. Volume 8 in the Best of Language Learning Series:
Language as a Complex Adaptive System - 60th Anniversary Special Issue
Edited by Nick C. Ellis and Diane Larsen-Freeman, University of Michigan

Supplement for 2007. Volume 7 in the Best of Language Learning Series:
Reading and Language Learning
Edited by Keiko Koda, Carnegie Mellon University

Supplement for 2005. Volume 6 in the Best of Language Learning Series:
Grammatical Development in Language Learning
Edited by Robert DeKeyser, University of Pittsburgh

Supplement for 2003. Volume 5 in the Best of Language Learning Series:
Attitudes, Orientations and Motivations in Language Learning
Edited by Zoltán Dörnyei

Supplement for 2001. Volume 4 in the Best of Language Learning Series:
Form-Focused Instruction and Second Language Learning
Edited by Rod Ellis, University of Auckland

Supplement for 2000. Volume 3 in the Best of Language Learning Series:
Phonological Issues in Language Learning
Edited by Jonathan Leather

The Language Learning Monograph Series appears biennially, alternating with the Best of Language Learning Series. Volumes in the series are authoritative statements by scholars who have led in the development of particular areas of research in the language sciences. The volumes review recent findings and current theoretical positions, present new data and interpretations, and point to new directions of research.

Supplement for 2010: Volume 7 in The Language Learning Monograph Series:
Mogadishu on the Mississippi: Language, Racialized Identity, and Education in a New Land
By Martha H. Bigelow

Supplement for 2008: Volume 6 in The Language Learning Monograph Series:
Discursive Practice in Language Learning and Teaching
By Richard F. Young, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Supplement for 2006. Volume 5 in the The Language Learning Monograph Series:
Language Testing: The Social Dimension
By Tim McNamara and Carsten Roever, University of Melbourne

Supplement for 2004. Volume 4 in the The Language Learning Monograph Series:
The Language Learning Monograph Series:
The Interactional Architecture of the Language Classroom: A Conversation Analysis Perspective
By Paul Seedhouse, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Supplement for 2002. Volume 3 in the The Language Learning Monograph Series:
The Language Learning Monograph Series:
Pragmatic Development in a Second Language
By Gabriele Kasper, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, and Kenneth R. Rose, City University of Hong Kong

Supplement for 2000. Volume 2 in the The Language Learning Monograph Series:
The Language Learning Monograph Series:
Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition: A Study of Form, Meaning, and Use
By Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Indiana University

Supplement for 1998. Volume 1 in the Language Learning Monograph Series:
The Neurobiology of Affect in Language Learning
By John H. Schumann, University of California, Los Angeles

The Language Learning-Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Cognitive NeuroScience Series is published biennially. Volumes in this new series are based upon invitational conferences devoted to the neurobiology of language acquisition and language processing, bringing together broad areas of neuroscience, cognitive science, computational science and classical linguistic research as they affect and shape the study of language.

Supplement for 2008. Volume 2 in the Language Learning-Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Cognitive NeuroScience Series:
Time to Speak: Cognitive and Neural Prerequisites for Time in Language
Edited by Peter Indefrey and Marianne Gullberg, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen

Supplement for 2006. Volume 1 in the Language Learning-Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Cognitive NeuroScience Series:
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Second Language Acquisition
Edited by Marianne Gullberg and Peter Indefrey, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen