In his overview of teaching and learning foreign languages in Germany, Frank Königs refers to the very different research currents and traditions that have come to inform the state-of-the art as we have it today. Here at language teaching, the editorial team endeavours to bring you examples of excellent research carried out in all the traditions and paradigms which inform our profession today. Here you will find accounts of small classroom-based studies side by side with reports on national research projects; you will find a full range of quantitative and qualitative methodologies represented. All of the articles abstracted appeared in peer-reviewed journals, and are carefully considered by the editor and the abstracting team. We consider all of them to be good examples of whichever research trends they represent, and hope that they will be of use in the professional work of our readers.