Welcome to JESLA: the Journal of the European Second Language Association. This fourth issue comprises the best papers submitted to JESLA for Issue 04. The winners of the JESLA 2020 best article award are Aarnes Gudmestad, Amanda Edmonds and Thomas Metzger for their paper "Modeling variability in number marking in additional-language Spanish”.

The editorial team would like to thank reviewers who gave their expertise and valuable time to review the papers and all those who submitted papers to the journal for consideration.

Sarah Liszka (Journal Editor)

Clare Wright (EuroSLA President and JESLA Editor-in-Chief)

Research

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  Sentence Repetition in Farsi-English Bilingual Children

  Mariam Komeili,  Theodoros Marinis,  Parvaneh Tavakoli,  Yalda Kazemi

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  30 Apr 2020

  4(1):1–12
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  Words, clauses, sentences, and T-units in learner language: Precise and objective units of measure?

  Taina Mylläri

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  07 Aug 2020

  4(1):13–23
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  Modeling variability in number marking in additional-language Spanish

  Aarnes Gudmestad,  Amanda Edmonds,  Thomas Metzger

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  11 Sep 2020

  4(1):24–34
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  Language Aptitude and Crosslinguistic Influence in Initial L2 Learning

  Lars Bokander

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  18 Nov 2020

  4(1):35–44
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  How different are the relations between enjoyment, anxiety, attitudes/motivation and course marks in pupils’ Italian and English as foreign languages?

  Jean-Marc Dewaele,  Anna Lia Proietti Ergün

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  30 Nov 2020

  4(1):45–57