''The Modern Language Journal'' is a
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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published by
Wiley-Blackwell
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on behalf of the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations. It covers research and discussion about the learning and teaching of foreign and
second language
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A speaker's dominant language, which ...
s.
Types of articles published include documented essays, research studies using quantitative/qualitative methodologies, response articles, and editorials that challenge paradigms of language learning and teaching. The journal has a News & Notes of the Profession section offering a calendar of events, professional announcements, initiatives, and concerns. The journal also provides a list of relevant articles in other professional journals, and reviews of scholarly books, monographs, and computer software. An annual survey of doctoral degrees granted in foreign languages, literatures, cultures, linguistics, and foreign language education in the United States is available on the journal's website.
Since 2007, the journal issues a fifth issue in addition to the regular four issues published every year. This additional issue is a focus issue or a
monograph
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in alternating years.
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2022
impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 7.500.
Editorial board
*Editor-in-Chief:
Marta Antón
*Associate Editor:
Shawn Loewen
*Associate Editor:
Wander Lowie
*Associate Editor: Martha Bigelow
Board
*Teresa Cadierno
*Laura Collins
*
Kees de Bot
*
Patricia Duff
*Agnes He
*Elaine K. Horwitz
*Richard Kern
*
James Lantolf
*Jenifer Larson-Hall
*Constant Leung
*
Peter MacIntyre
*Junko Mori
*
Rosa Manchón
*Tim McNamara
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Rebecca Oxford
*Angela Scarino
*
Merrill Swain
*Naoko Taguchi
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Elaine Tarone
*Paul Toth
*Ema Ushioda
*Guadalupe Valdés
*
Paula Winke
See also
*
List of linguistics journals
References
External links
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Linguistics journals
Wiley-Blackwell academic journals
English-language journals
Quarterly journals
Academic journals established in 1916
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