The Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada have put together a Special Issue on Complexity and Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages. The journal is available online from the following link:

Rev. bras. linguist. apl. vol.13 no.2 Apr./June 2013

The journal, which was guest-edited by Diane Larsen-Freeman, contains a number of intellectually stimulating articles, including:

• Complexity theory: a new way to think, by Diane Larsen-Freeman
• Towards a complexity-informed pedagogy for language learning, by Sarah Mercer
• Instantiation of complexity of students and teachers’ learnings in an EFL classroom, by Nayibe Rosado
• The dynamics of L2 vocabulary development: A case study of receptive and productive knowledge, by Tal Caspi and Wander Lowie
• Attractor states, control parameters, and co-adaptation in instructed L2 inferential comprehension: a design-based research study of a critical reading intervention, by Moisés Damián Perales Escudero
• Emergence in second language writing: a methodological inroad, by Susy Macqueen
• The interlanguage development in the Spanish learning as foreign language in Teletandem under the view of the Complexity Theory, by Oyama Andressa Carvalho Silva
• Complexity in second language phonology acquisition, by Júnior Lima and Ronaldo Mangueira
• Virtual learning environments in the light of the Complexity Paradigm: Interface, affordances and equifinality, by  Valeska Virginia Soares Souza
• Fractal groups: Emergent dynamics in on-line learning communities, by Junia de Carvalho Fidelis Braga
• Social interactive entropy and interaction in the language teacher education classroom, by Rafael Vetromille-Castro
• Understanding digital natives’ learning experiences, by Claudio de Paiva Franco

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