Dr. Kimberly Urbanski (Director of the PhD Program in Applied Linguistics at UMass Boston) and Dr. Mariana Lima Becker (Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the University of Georgia) investigate the emotional and cognitive development of four intermediate-level French learners through the lens of a Division of Labor Pedagogy (DOLP). In this instructional approach, each learner assumes a key role in fostering the group’s collective and meaningful engagement with texts. Their article appears in the Language Teaching Research Quarterly special issue (2024, Vol. 46), “In Honour of James P. Lantolf’s Contributions to Sociocultural Theory, Second Language Development, and Language Pedagogy,” edited by Mirosław Pawlak, Zhisheng Wen, and Hassan Mohebbi. The full article is available open access at the link below.