Review of research on language teaching, learning and policy published in 2004 and 2005

Citation

Johnstone R (2006) Review of research on language teaching, learning and policy published in 2004 and 2005. Language Teaching, 39 (4), pp. e1-27. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444806003892

Abstract
Most of the annual reviews which I have prepared for the present journal discuss roughly 100 articles published each previous year in top international research outlets. Even with such a high number per year, considerable selectivity has to be applied – the number of abstracts appearing up to the end of the October 2005 edition of Language Teaching, for example, amounts to 601, mostly published in 2005 and with still more to come for that year. The task of covering 2004 as well as 2005 within the one review, necessitated by personal circumstances, is therefore doubly daunting in its selectivity. For comprehensive coverage then, there is nothing in my view which can compete with the abstracts themselves as published in the present journal.

Keywords
; Language and languages Study and teaching; Language arts

Journal
Language Teaching: Volume 39, Issue 4