Call for replication studies - LANGUAGE TEACHING

LANGUAGE TEACHING Teaching is a quarterly, professional, peer-reviewed
journal which is dedicated to providing a number of resources to its
international readership of researchers and practitioners in L2
education at all levels of instruction. Each regular issue of the
journal contains commissioned state-of-the-art reviews and surveys
about various aspects of L2 learning, acquisition and teaching as well
as comparative book reviews thematically linked to these reviews.

A further section of the journal is dedicated to publishing academic
studies which use a replication approach: we invite submissions of
previously unpublished articles BASED ON LITERAL, APPROXIMATE OR
CONSTRUCTIVE REPLICATION OF A PREVIOUS STUDY OR STUDIES. In keeping
with the survey characteristics of Language Teaching we also encourage
submissions of META-ANALYSES which attempt to combine or synthesise a
series of comparable research replications. Papers can be based on a
broad range of topics, including· language teaching, teacher
training, curriculum design and materials development, language
learning, language testing, teacher education, neurolinguistics,
bilingualism/bilingual education, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics,
pragmatics, applied linguistics.

LITERAL REPLICATION is understood to be the exact duplication of a
previous methodologically sound study whereby the procedures and
conditions are repeated to confirm the original findings. APPROXIMATE
REPLICATION is understood to involve the duplication of the methods of
the original study as closely as possible but altering some variable
(e.g. with a different subject group, age group, sex, etc).
CONSTRUCTIVE REPLICATION means beginning with a similar problem
statement as the original study but creating a new means or design to
verify the original findings.

Mail in the first instance to the Editor: gporte@xxxxxx

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