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Review of research on language teaching, learning and policy published in 2006

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2008

Richard Johnstone
Richard Johnstone*
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University of Stirling, UKr.m.johnstone@stir.ac.uk
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My previous review (of 2004 and 2005 together) was delayed for reasons beyond my control and therefore could not appear as planned in the journal, but the publisher generously agreed to make it available on-line through their website, where it can be accessed (see Johnstone 2006). In the interim the journal has changed. The abstracts are no longer there, replaced by a range of different types of contribution. The absence of the abstracts might tempt the reader of the present review to read it in a somewhat different way from before by regarding what I have to say about each article as a kind of abstract. This would be a mistake, because I have never attempted to provide a balanced summary of any article. For a balanced summary, the reader should go to the abstract of the particular article itself, most of which are quite easy to find on-line. In discussing an article, my purpose is simply to select something which I find interesting and maybe reflects a trend.

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Annual Research Review
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Language Teaching , Volume 41 , Issue 4 , October 2008 , pp. 509 - 542
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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