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This journal came out for the first time in 2015.It was founded on our belief that although Poland has a strong presence among second language acquisition and multilinguality researchers, which is demonstrated by the large number of conferences and also book publications appearing every year, academic journals like this one, concerned with both theoretical issues and the practical concerns of SLA, are not that numerous.The initial success of the journal is demonstrated by the fact that despite its short life, it is already indexed in several databases and made its first appearance in Scopus in 2018.Thanks to this, it is also recognized by the Polish Ministry of Higher Education as a scholarly journal in linguistics.It is of importance that the Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition journal is published by the prestigious Polish academic publisher, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu lskiego (University of Silesia Press).We can also ascribe the origins of our journal to the success of the International Conference on Second/Foreign Language Acquisition (ICFSLA), an academic event that has been organized for over thirty years by the Institute of English at the University of Silesia in Katowice (the Institute of Linguistics since 2020).ICFSLA regularly brings together many Polish and foreign academics every May.Its focus is on new trends in SLA research, but it also prides itself on promoting fairly under-researched and new issues in SLA.Although the conference always has a leading theme, scholars are also invited to present their research even if it falls outside the scope of the main topic.Our journal has become an accepted channel for the publication of selected conference papers of a high academic standard.At the same time, we warmly welcome other contributions, those not connected with the conference itself.In fact, in recent issues most publications were submitted by authors who did not participate in the conference, mainly because in 2020 it had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.In addition to theoretical and research-related papers, we also accept for inclusion in each volume reviews of academic books recently