Preface to the 20th Anniversary Issue

With our Spring 2021 volume, Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL (SALT) celebrates its twentieth anniversary. The journal was founded 2001, originally called Working Papers and Linguistics. In the late 1990s, a young faculty member ZhaoHong Han joined Program at Teachers College. Inspired by published University of Hawaii ESL -- one that evolved over time into very influential outlet, Dr. wanted to create synergy among doctoral students across three tracks SLA, assessment language use, offering them authentic editorial experience as well platform publish their work-in-progress. web subsequently be place incubation, venue where scholars could experiment with ongoing ideas for research receive feedback from multiple perspectives. grew garner an international reputation years changed name SALT 2019.