Papers on current issues in language documentation; communities, ethics and rights; research methods; documenting sign languages; documentation and language policy; documentation and archiving; documentation and linguistic theory; documentation and language typology; audio recording practices; applying for a language documentation research grant. The papers originate from lectures at second 3L Summer School, 22nd June to 3rd July 2009, SOAS. They form a good basis for foundational training in language documentation.