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I am very grateful to the staff at Wiley for their impeccable skill and constant support throughout the development of this second edition: Tanya McMullin, commissioning editor, for her assistance from the beginning of this latest project and for her consistently helpful guidance; Mohan Jayachandran, project editor, for his diligent help throughout this process; Merryl Le Roux, senior editorial assistant, for her help including advice for the cover artistry; Rachel Greenberg, commissioning editor during the later part of production; and Belle Mundy for her attentive copy editing expertise.

For this second edition, I want to continue to acknowledge my thanks to scholars who offered advice for the first edition: Carol Chapelle, Joseph Galasso, Nicholas Groom, Shaozhong Lui, and Sebastian Rasinger. A special thanks goes to Michel Paradis for his careful reading and characteristically perceptive feedback, and to Nick Ellis for reading a section relating to his expertise for that edition. I also want to thank colleagues, Barbara Bacz, Leif French, and Susan Parks, for their generous feedback and pointed advice. The thoughtful remarks and advice from all these scholars were enormously helpful in developing the first edition. Gratitude goes as well to Robert DeKeyser who generously offered advice on the section “Skill Acquisition Theory” in this new edition. I hope I have not misinterpreted or poorly conveyed the advice these many individuals have offered, but if so, the fault lies with me alone. I also wish to acknowledge the native‐speaker advice and intuitions of Mariem Boukadi, Zélie Guével, Khader Jum'a, Ivan Maffezzini, Hongling Wang, and Vera Sarić. I also owe thanks to the artistry of the cartoonists, and in particular to Rod Maclean, Terry Mosher, and John Crowther, as well as to Carla Romanelli Crowther, all of whom generously gave permission to use cartoons in this second edition. I am grateful to François Grosjean for taking the time to provide an updated citation. I also thank Sharif Alghazo who spotted text errors that needed fixing from the first edition, as well as three anonymous reviewers who gave suggestions for this revised edition. I hope I have adequately addressed their thoughtful remarks for improvements.

I continue to owe a wealth of gratitude to the second language research community. The published material that second language scholars have produced has been an endless source of knowledge and inspiration.

The many students enrolled in my courses at Laval University deserve special thanks. The comments and questions of each undergraduate and graduate cohort over the years have been fundamental in providing invisible guidelines behind the scenes, for both the first edition and this second edition, of what I hope is an accessible and accurate overview of the field of second language acquisition.

A big personal thank you goes to my favorite balanced bilinguals, my two daughters, Louissa and Marlyse. Finally, I am grateful for the legacy of both my parents; special gratitude goes to my father, Louis Hummel, in memory of his unwavering support and for generously sharing with me his passion for languages and language learning from my earliest years.