Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL (SALT) at Teachers College, Columbia University has just made available our Fall 2020 issue! We invite you to see the Table of Contents below and visit our website to review articles and items of interest.

Article

Unpacking Reading Text Complexity: A Dynamic Language and Content Approach

1–20

Haimei Sun

 

Forum

Six Decades of Research on Language Aptitude: An Introduction

i–iii

Peter Kim

 

From Language Aptitude to Implicit Language Aptitude: A Discussion of Definitional Issues

21–25

Wai Man Adrienne Lew

 

The Role of Language Aptitude in Children’s Rate and Route of L2 Acquisition:  A Direction for Future Research in Child SLA

26–28

Ashley Beccia

 

Implicit Aptitude in SLA, in Contrast to Explicit Aptitude

29–31

Sue Min Park

 

Book Review

Language Perceptions and Practices in Multilingual Universities

32–35

John Terry Dundon

 

 Readers’ Credits

Readers’ Credits for Volume 20, Issue 2

i

Peter Kim

 

Apple Award Papers

The Relationship Between ESL Learners’ Motivation, Willingness to Communicate, Perceived Competence, and Frequency of L2 Use

36–56

Tiffany Laiyin Lao

 

Effects of Identification and Pronunciation Training Methods on L2 Speech Perception and Production: Training Adult Japanese Speakers to Perceive and Produce English /r/-/l/

57–83

Zeyu Feng