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When the editors of the Language Teaching&nbsp;Research Quarterly, Christine Coombe and Hassan Mohebbi, suggested to me&nbsp;that I organize a special issue in my honor, my first reaction was that it&nbsp;would be immodest for me to take on such an activity. Even though I identified&nbsp;a series of topics about which I really wanted to create a special volume, it&nbsp;was with some trepidation that I reached out to colleagues that I really wanted&nbsp;to hear from on these topics. Consequently, it was most gratifying for me to see how easy it actually was to recruit these colleagues to take part in this&nbsp;venture. The five themes that they have written about are ones that have&nbsp;engaged my interest over many years.&nbsp;It has been an ongoing concern of mine to find ways to enhance the experiences of language learners,&nbsp;primarily because of my lifelong passion to continue learning languages. I am&nbsp;currently working on my 13th, Mandarin. I use five languages professionally and&nbsp;have modest-to-minimal skills at this point in the other languages that I have&nbsp;learned. Experience with so many languages over the years has given me an&nbsp;opportunity to experience everything from surprising success to abysmal&nbsp;failures, both with regard to my handling of basic language skills, as well as&nbsp;with regard to the pragmatics associated with the specific language communities involved.In my brief introduction to this collection&nbsp;of papers, I will share with you my rationale for why the 5 topics addressed by&nbsp;my colleagues in this special issue are of concern to me. I will consider this&nbsp;special volume a contribution to the field if it activates in your minds as&nbsp;readers new or renewed interest in one or more of these topics, leading either to research on your part and/or to instructional efforts both in the classroom and beyond.

Pathways to the Successful Teaching and Learning of an L2: Introduction to the Honorary Volume of the Language Teaching Research Quarterly

Original Research 

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Guest-editors: 
Christine Coombe, PhD, Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai, UAE
Hassan Mohebbi, PhD, Independent Researcher, Turkey


Special Issue: Pathways to the Successful Teaching and Learning of an L2: In Honour of Andrew D. Cohen