"Second Language Acquisition -- Learning Theories and Recent Approaches" will aim to present the process of learning an additional language apart from one's native language. The process of understanding, writing, and speaking another language with fluency involves complex intellectual and emotional responses as well as continuous…

A response to a paper on Translation Quality Assessment (TQA) and the training of translators supports the argument that the functionalist approach to TQA has not succeeded and that despite the merits of the approach, this reflects a flaw. The role of contrastive/comparative linguistics in functionalist translation theory is considered. (MSE)

A computer-assisted language learning (CALL) software evaluation form that looks directly at important aspects of language teaching approaches is presented. Examples of typical evaluation checklists are described to illustrate how they fail to address the appropriate questions for language teaching software. Three major categories of language…