The Recherche et pratiques pédagogiques en langues de spécialité. Cahiers de l'APLIUT is produced by the Association des professeurs de langues des IUT, a scholarly discussion group. The journal has a dual objective: teaching methods and research. It publishes the results of applied research carried out in the world of teaching and specialist language learning, focussing on specialities and themes. Contributions – research articles, teaching method notes and reviews, etc – are published in theme and varia issues. For the opening of the journal’s website, twelve issues have been made available online including nine in full text.