The aim of this Journal is to promote a principled approach to research on language and language-related concerns by encouraging enquiry into relationship between theoretical and practical studies. The journal welcomes contributions in such areas of current analysis in: • first, second, and foreign language teaching and learning; • language in education; • language planning, language testing; • curriculum design and development; • multilingualism and multilingual education; • discourse analysis; • translation; • clinical linguistics; • literature and teaching; and. • forensic linguistics.