Call for Papers: Translating Research to Practice in the Language Sciences

Call for Papers: Translating Research to Practice in the Language Sciences

Special Issue of Translational Issues in Psychological Science (TPS)

Submissions accepted from January 15 - March 1, 2016

We are encouraging submissions for consideration in a special issue titled "Translating Research to Practice in the Language Sciences" in the innovative journal titled Translational Issues in Psychological Science, co-sponsered by the American Psychological Association (APA) and the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS). 

"Translating Research to Practice in the Language Sciences" is due out in March of 2017. For this issue, the Editors will consider manuscripts across a broad area of language science research concerning such topics as:

• Cognitive and neural consequences of bilingualism
• Enhancing second language learning
• Raising bilingual children
• Global perspectives on language science
• Language and aging
• Advances in the neuroscience of language
• Language development and atypical trajectories
• Translating language science to the classroom
• Literacy across the lifespan and language context
• Other important and timely topics in language science research

Manuscripts submitted to TPS should be co-authored by at least one psychologist in training (graduate student, postdoctoral fellow), should be written concisely for a broad audience, and focus on the practical implication of the research presented in the manuscript. Click here to visit the TPS website for more information about the journal, including detailed instructions to authors.