This special issue of Journal of Language and Education is devoted to psychological and emotional aspects that saturate a language learning – and a language teaching – endeavour. Learning a second or a foreign language (L2) is one of those human activities that, besides drawing upon a person’s cognitive resources, involves a multitude of psychological and emotional factors. For this reason, language learning as an activity and process has attracted a considerable interest from psychologists, applied linguists and language educators.

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SLA 和 L2 心理和情绪因素研究的进展：鸟瞰

本期《语言与教育杂志》特刊专门讨论使语言学习和语言教学工作饱和的心理和情感方面。学习第二语言或外语 (L2) 是人类活动之一，除了利用一个人的认知资源外，还涉及多种心理和情感因素。出于这个原因，语言学习作为一种活动和过程引起了心理学家、应用语言学家和语言教育工作者的极大兴趣。