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The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: A research agenda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2011

David Little
David Little*
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Trinity College Dublin, [email protected]
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Editorial note

This new strand in the journal provides a space for contributors to present a personal stance either on future research needs or on the perceived current applications of research in the classroom. Like much of our current content, it echoes the historical uniqueness of this journal in terms of its rich and expert overview of recent research in the field of L2 teaching and learning. However, this new strand takes such research as its starting point and attempts to look forward, using these findings both to debate their application in the language learning classroom and also to suggest where research would be best directed in the future. Thus, the objective of both papers is eminently practical: contributors to the research agenda will present suggestions for what research might usefully be undertaken, given what is currently known or what is perceived to be necessary. In the research into practice papers there will be critical appraisal both of what research is, and is not, getting through to the language learning classroom and practical suggestions made for improving such outcomes.

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Thinking Allowed
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Language Teaching , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , July 2011 , pp. 381 - 393
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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