Language Learning

Call for Proposals: 2027 Special Issue of LL invites proposals from prospective guest editors. Proposals should focus on topics in language learning, broadly defined, that advance scholarly understanding and engage the journal’s international audience. 🚩Deadline: Sep 30, 2025

E-mail proposals in a single .pdf file to Associate Editor and Editor of Special Thematic Issues, Aline Godfroid at godfroid@msu.edu by September 30th, 2025.

Call for Proposals: 2027 Special Issue of LL invites proposals from prospective guest editors. Proposals should focus on topics in language learning, broadly defined, that advance scholarly understanding and engage the journal’s international audience. 🚩Deadline: Sep 30, 2025

📚New issue of Language Learning Vol. 75(2) is out! Featuring fresh research, theoretical insights, & open commentaries on key topics in SLA! Free Access🔓 Check out the full issue: doi.org/10.1111/lang.1…

📢New in #LL Open Access!🔓 “Effects of Lexical Frequency in Predictive Processing: Higher Frequency Boosts First Language Speed and Facilitates Second Language Prediction” By: Haerim Hwang & Kitaek Kim Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/lang.1… Abstract below!👇

📢New on Early View: Open Access!🔓 “Contrasting Fixed- and Mixed-Effects Modeling in Vocabulary Research: Reanalyzing Laufer (2024) and McLean et al. (2020)” By: Christopher Nicklin, Stuart McLean & Joseph Vitta Check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/lang.1… Abstract below!👇

Quick look at the abstract below!👇

📢New in #LL Full Access!🔓✅ “Instructed Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Pronunciation” By: Dustin Crowther & Shawn Loewen @LoewenShawn Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/lang.1…

📢New in #LL Full Access!🔓 “On Umbrellas and Omnibuses: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries” By: Bram Bulté, Alex Housen & Gabriele Pallotti Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/lang.1…

Congratulations to the 55 authors of the article that won the Outstanding Article of the Year award in Language Learning (@_LangLearning)! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/page/1… Paper: doi.org/10.1111/lang.1…

📢New in #LL Vol75(1) Open Access!🔓 “What Proactive Language Learning Theory Is and Is Not: A Response to Atkinson's Commentary” By: Mostafa Papi & Phil Hiver Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/lang.1…

📢New in #LL Vol75(1) Open Access!🔓 “A Commentary on ‘Proactive Language Learning Theory’” By: Dwight Atkinson Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/lang.1…

📢New in #LL Vol75(1) Open Access!🔓 “Proactive Language Learning Theory” By: Mostafa Papi & Phil Hiver Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/lang.1…

📢New in #LL Vol75(1) Open Access!🔓 “Reporting Eye-Tracking Research in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism: A Synthesis and Field-Specific Guidelines” By: Aline Godfroid, Brittany Finch & Joanne Koh Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/lang.1…

📢New in #LL Vol75(1) Open Access!🔓 “Mixed-Effects Modeling with a Multinomial Dependent Variable” By: Aarnes Gudmestad & Thomas A. Metzger Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/lang.1…

📢New in #LL Vol75(1) Open Access!🔓 “Collocation in the Mind: Investigating Collocational Priming in Second Language Speakers of Italian” By: Irene Fioravanti, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia & Alessandro Lenci Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/lang.1…

📢New in #LL Vol75(1) Open Access!🔓 “Morphological Markedness and the Temporal Dynamics of Gender Agreement Processing in Spanish as a Majority and a Heritage Language” By: Gregory D. Keating Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/lang.1…

📢New in #LL Vol75(1) Open Access!🔓 “Syntactic Adaptation and Word Learning in 3- to 4-Year-Olds” By: Yukun Yu, Naomi Havron & Cynthia Fisher Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/lang.1…

📢New in #LL Vol75(1) Open Access!🔓 “Learning Unacceptability: Repeated Exposure to Acceptable Sentences Improves Adult Learners’ Recognition of Unacceptable Sentences” By: Karina Tachihara & Adele E. Goldberg Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/lang.1…

📢New in #LL Vol75(1) Open Access!🔓 “Is Second Language Attrition Inevitable After Instruction Ends? An Exploratory Longitudinal Study of Advanced Instructed Second...” By: Tracy-Ventura, Huensch, Katz & Mitchell Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/lang.1…

📢New in #LL Vol75(1) Open Access!🔓 “Undesirable Difficulty of Interleaved Practice: The Importance of Initial Blocked Practice for Declarative Knowledge Development in Low-Achieving Adolescents” By: Hyun-Bin Hwang Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/lang.1…