Preface

Abstract

We resolved to start publishing this journal thinking that despite the fact that Poland has a strong position in second language acquisition research and that quite a large number of monographic publications in this area come out every year—often published abroad with Multilingual Matters or Springer, among others—yet there is no academic research-oriented journal devoted to the theory and practice of SLA which would be widely available to Polish academia. The existing journal, Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching published by Adam Mickiewicz University (Kalisz-Poznań), emphasizes the role of classroom-oriented research and so its particular Focus complements the new journal by presenting foreign language pedagogy and its classroom applications. […]