Abstract:

Managing the first year of life of a new journal is a struggle in many ways: recruiting of authors, filtering stronger papers from weaker ones, chasing reviewers for timely, constructive reports – the list can go on. It will be for readers to determine, but on reflection, we feel we have accomplished what we had set out to achieve in bringing this new journal to life (Candlin & Sarangi, 2004). The inaugural volume (comprising the three issues), with its breadth of themes and methodologies, we hope will have put some markers for future authors and readers of the journal in the ever-widening field of applied linguistics.

Author: Christopher N. Candlin, Srikant Sarangi