Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL)
Editor in Chief: Mary McGroarty
English Department, Box 6032
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6032
USA
E-mail: mary.mcgroarty@nau.edu
Description: The Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL) is a yearly
publication on central topics and issues in applied linguistics. Articles
are solicited from leading experts in the field who are asked to provide research
surveys on their respective fields of specialization with an emphasis on the
most current research trends and studies. Volumes are theme-based and contain
annotated bibliographies.
Applied Language Learning
Editor: Lidia Woytak
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
Presidio of Monterey
Monterey, CA 93944-5006
USA
E-mail: woytak1@pom-emhl.army.mil
URL: http://pom-www.army.mil/atfl/ap/aj/
Description: The mission of Professional Bulletin 65-98, Applied Language
Learning (ALL) is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information
on instructional methods and techniques, curriculum and materials development,
assessment of needs within the profession, testing and evaluation, and implications
and applications of research from related fields, such as linguistics, education,
communications, psychology, and the social sciences. The journal includes
conference reports and debates.
Applied Linguistics
Editors: Claire Kramsch
German Department
5323 Dwinelle Hall
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
USA
E-mail: ckramsch@socrates.berkeley.edu
Martin Bygate
School of Education
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
E-mail: user@bymuda.u-net.com
URL: http://www.oup.co.uk/jnls/list/applij/
Description: Applied Linguistics promotes a principles approach to
research on language and language-related concerns by encouraging inquiry
into the relationship between theoretical and practical studies. Areas covered
include first and second language acquisition, discourse analysis, critical
linguistics, language in education, language planning, testing, stylistics,
translation, and lexicography.
Applied Psycholinguistics
Editors: Martha Crago
Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics
Beatty Hall
McGill University
1266 Pine Avenue West
Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1A8
Canada
E-mail: martha.crago@mcgill.ca
Usha Goswami
Behavioral and Brain Sciences Unit
Institute of Child Health
University College of London
30 Guilford Street
London WC1N 1EH
United Kingdom
E-mail: u.goswami@ich.ucl.ac.uk
Description: Applied Psycholinguistics publishes original articles
on the psychological processes involved in language. Articles address the
development, use, and impairment of language in all its modalities, including
spoken, signed, and written. Applied Psycholinguistics is of interest
to professionals in the fields of linguistics, psychology, speech and hearing,
reading, language teaching, special education, and neurology. Specific topics
featured include: language development, language disorders in children and
adults, literacy development, and psycholinguistic processing. Applied
Psycholinguistics also accepts theoretical reviews, short notes, discussions
of previously published papers, and book reviews. The journal also occasionally
publishes on issues devoted to special topics within its purview.
ARIS Resources Bulletin
Editor: Robyn Hodge
ARIS
Language Australia
GPO Box 372F
Melbourne Vic 3000
Australia
E-mail: robynh@la.ames.vic.edu.au
URL: http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/language-australia/aris/
Description: ARIS Resources Bulletin is published by the Adult Resource
Information Service (ARIS), and is primarily a bulletin of resource review.
Its aim is to provide adult education students, researchers, and teachers
with up-to-date reviews, abstracts, and journal listings of all the new material
within the ARIS Collection. The focus of the collection is adult education,
particularly within the field of adult literacy, and the junction(s) between
adult literacy, ESL, workplace, correctional, and community education. ARIS
Resources Bulletin balances a mix of the theoretical and the practical,
also encouraging teachers, researchers, and students from diverse fields to
contribute articles and reports.
Other features: A classification of current journal listings according to
relevant categories and descriptors of the Australian Education Index.
Asian Journal of English Language Teaching (AJELT)
Editors: Gwendolyn Gong, George S. Braine
Department of English
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, New Territories
Hong Kong SAR
China
E-mails: ggong@cuhk.edu.hk
georgebraine@cuhk.edu.hk
URL: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ajelt/
Description: The Asian Journal of English Language Teaching (AJELT)
is an international, refereed journal that seeks previously unpublished articles
that 1) link ESL/EFL theory, research, and pedagogy; and 2) relate specifically
to teaching English to Asians at the university level. Reviews of print and
multimedia resources and reports of ongoing projects are also welcome. AJELT
is an academic publication of The Chinese University Press and an affiliate
of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ). It is indexed in Sociological
Abstracts and in the Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts.
Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
Editor: Brian Paltridge
Faculty of Education
The University of Sydney
Sydney NSW 2006
Australia
E-mail: b.paltridge@edfac.usyd.edu.au
URL: http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/Arts/departs/langcent/alaa/index.htm
Description: The Australian Review of Applied Linguistics is the journal
of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia. The aim of the journal
is to present research in a wide range of areas, particularly research that
is relevant to the region of the world that it covers. The journal endeavors
to promote the development of links between language-related research and
its application in education, professional, and other language-related settings.
Areas that are covered by the journal include first and second language teaching
and learning, bilingualism and bilingual education, the use of technologies
in language teaching and learning, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis,
translation and interpreting, language testing, language planning, academic
literacies, and rhetoric.
The Canadian Modern Language Review/La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes
(CMLR)
Editors: Sharon Lapkin, Heather Lotherington
CMLR
University of Toronto Press, Journals Division
5201 Dufferin Street
North York, ON M3H 5T8
Canada
E-mail: cmlr@utpress.utoronto.ca
Description: The Canadian Modern Language Review (CMLR) focuses substantially
on Canadian educational environments as well as French-as-a-second-language
programs and research. CMLR serves to balance theoretical and practical content,
and publishes relevant contemporary research and discussion of ESL, FSL, international,
and aboriginal language learning in a wide range of programmatic and experiential
settings, written in English, French, and other languages.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: A Touch of ... Class (short discussions
of pedagogical issues); special thematic issue published once a year.
The CATESOL Journal
Editors: Donna Brinton
Dept. of Applied Linguistics and TESL
3300 Rolfe Hall
UCLA
405 Hilgard Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1531
USA
E-mail: brinton@humnet.ucla.edu
Roberta J. Ching
Learning Skills Center
6000 J Street
California State University, Sacramento
Sacramento, CA 95819
USA
E-mail: chingrj@csus.edu
URL: http://www.catesol.org/cjguidelines.html
Description: The CATESOL Journal is the official journal of the California
Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (CATESOL).
It is a refereed journal reflecting the interests and concerns of the organization's
membership.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: CATESOL Exchange (8- to 10-page
contributions concerning personal viewpoints on issues, techniques, and classroom
practices; themed section (solicited, full-length articles on a topic of special
interest to the readership).
College ESL
Editor: Gay Brookes
Office of Academic Affairs
Instructional Resource Center
The City University of New York
535 East 80th Street
New York, NY 10021
USA
E-mail: gbrookes@bmcc.cuny.edu
Description: College ESL provides a unique forum for exploring questions
and concerns regarding the education of English as a second language (ESL)
students, specifically urban immigrant and refugee adults in college and pre-college
settings. The journal welcomes articles and essays supported by research or
theory on current instructional practices in ESL and other disciplines; innovations
in curriculum and pedagogy; research studies; teacher education and training;
the culture, history, sociology, and anthropology of ESL populations; and
relevant ethical, legal, and political issues.
Computer Assisted Language Learning: An International Journal (CALL Int'l
Journal)
Editor: Jozef Colpaert
Director, Research Centre DIDASCALIA
Universiteit Antwerpen (UIA)
Universiteitsplein, 1
B-2610 Antwerpen
Belgium
E-mail: colpaert@uia.ua.ac.be
URL: http://www.szp.swets.nl/szp/journals/ca.htm
Description: The Computer Assisted Language Learning Journal is an
intercontinental and interdisciplinary journal. The wide-ranging scope features
articles of a general as well as controversial nature, dealing with global
and local issues, focused on research, design, development, implementation,
and evaluation of language learning tools, applications and environments.
The aim is to integrate findings from other disciplines such as artificial
intelligence (AI), computer-assisted translation, human computer interaction
(HCI), second language acquisition (SLA), speech technology, cognitive psychology,
and language testing.
English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
Editors: Martin Hewings
EOSU
The University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT
United Kingdom
E-mail: m.j.hewings@bham.ac.uk
Diane Belcher
ESL Programs, Ohio State University
60 Arps Hall
1945 N. High St.
Columbus, OH 43210-1172
USA
E-mail: belcher.1@osu.edu
URL: http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/6/8/2/
Description: English for Specific Purposes (ESP) publishes articles
and research notes reporting basic research in the linguistic description
of specialized varieties of English and the application of such research to
specific methodological concerns. Topics include: discourse analysis, second
language acquisition in specialized contexts, needs assessment, curriculum
development and evaluation, materials preparation, teaching and testing techniques,
the effectiveness of various approaches to language learning and teaching,
and the training or retraining of teachers for the teaching of ESP.
Beyond feature articles and reviews, the journal also includes a research
and discussion notes section for shorter articles and research in progress
as well as occasional conference reports.
English Language Teaching Journal
Editor: Keith Morrow
Homerton House
Cawston Road
Reepham
Norwich NR10 4LT
United Kingdom
E-mail: Eltj@compuserve.com
URL: http://eltj.oupjournals.org/
Description: The ELT Journal provides a medium for informed discussion
of the principles and practices that determine the way English is taught and
learned around the world.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: Key Concepts (a collection of
brief articles explaining and exploring key ideas in the field); Talking Shop
(interviews with key figures in the field); Point and Counterpoint (two perspectives
on a current issue); and in-depth survey reviews of a range of materials in
a particular area.
English Teaching Forum
Editor: William P. Ancker
Office of English Language Programs
U.S. Department of State
301 Fourth Street, SW, Rm. 304
Washington, DC 20547
USA
E-mail: etforum@pd.state.gov
URLs: http://exchanges.state.gov/forum/
http://exchanges.state.gov/forum/journal/
Description: English Teaching Forum is a publication of the U.S. Department
of State, Office of English Language Programs, and is distributed for EFL
educators by the U.S. embassies in over 140 countries. Articles deal with
the theory and practice of teaching EFL and include discussions of methodology,
teaching techniques, and action research in the EFL classroom.
Other features beyond articles: vocabulary development with American idioms,
reviews of new teacher resources, news about the profession, journal abstracts,
special sections on civic education with materials for classroom use, language
games and word play, letters to the editor, and on-line electronic journals.
English Today
Editor: Tom McArthur
22-23 Ventress Farm Court
Cherry Hinton Road
Cambridge CB1 4HD
United Kingdom
E-mail: Scotsway@aol.com
URL: http://www.aaal.org/ (leads to Cambridge
University Press/Journals)
Description: English Today publishes a wide variety of commentary on
the English language throughout the world and related topics by academics
and non-academics.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: Language Notes; Crosswords; letters
to the editors.
English World-Wide
Editor: Edgar W. Schneider
Department of English and American Studies
University of Regensburg
93040 Regensburg
Germany
E-mail: edgar.schneider@sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de
URL: http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_IV/Anglistik/Schneider/english/var_e.htm
Description: English World-Wide contains scholarly articles; research
in progress; short, annotated texts; bibliographies; and reviews on regional
and social variation in English around the world. Although teaching problems
are normally excluded, the journal provides important background information
for those involved in teaching English throughout the world.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: Occasional texts of varieties
of English.
Functions of Language
Editors: Kristin Davidse
Department of Linguistics
University of Leuven
Blijde-Inkomststraat 21
Belgium
E-mail: Kristin.Davidse@arts.kuleuven.ac.be
William McGregor
Institut for Lingvistik
Aarhus Universitet
Nobel Park
Jens Chr. Skous Vej 7
DK-8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
E-mail: Bill.McGregor@mpi.nl
Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen
Miriam Taverniers (asst. editor)
Department of English
University of Gent
Rozier 44 9000 Gent
Belgium
E-mail: Annemarie.Vandenbergen@rug.ac.be
URL: http://bank.rug.ac.be/mt/fol
Description: Functions of Language publishes articles that explore
the functional perspective on the study of language-as-system, texts-in-context
and applications, particularly educational linguistics. Contributions from
all functional schools are welcome, but special preference is given to the
Prague School and Neo-Firthian functional inheritances.
Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics (IJOAL)
Editor: Ujjal Singh Bahri
997A/9, Gobindpuri
PO Box 4453
Kalkaji
New Delhi 110019
India
E-mail: bahrius@vsnl.com
URL: http://bahripublications.org/
Description: The Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics (IJOAL) publishes
theoretical and methodological ideas and research in applied linguistics--sociolinguistics,
first/second language learning, anthropological linguistics, psycholinguistics,
acquisition, bilingualism, language standardization, and language pedagogy.
Articles are submitted from all parts of the world.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: Occasional select bibliographies
on a special theme and books and journals received.
Issues in Applied Linguistics (IAL)
Editors: Leah Wingard, David Olsher
UCLA--Applied Linguistics and TESL
3300 Rolfe Hall
P.O. Box 951531
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1531
USA
E-mail: ial@humnet.ucla.edu
URL: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/teslal/ial/
Description: Issues in Applied Linguistics (IAL) aims to publish outstanding
research from students, faculty, and independent researchers in the broad
areas of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, language
analysis, language assessment, language education, language use, and research
methodology. Since its origin eight years ago, IAL has concentrated on publishing
original work focusing on the changing issues important to applied linguistics.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: Interviews, exchanges, and roundtable
discussions.
International Review of Applied Linguistics (IRAL)
Editors: Peter Jordens and Eric Kellerman
For submissions, contact:
Kaoru Yoshioka
Assistant Editor, IRAL
Department of Applied Linguistics
University of Nijmegen
Postbus 9103
6500 HD Nijmegen
The Netherlands
E-mail: kaoru_y@writeme.com
URL: http://www.degruyter.de/journals/journalsalpha.html#I
Description: IRAL is a refereed journal devoted to the problems of
applied linguistics. Theoretically grounded papers and studies with a strong
empirical contribution are preferred. Suggested areas include second language
acquisition and attrition, bilingualism, language contact, pidgins and creoles,
language for specific purposes, instructed language learning, language technology,
mother-tongue education, lexicology, terminology, and translation. Short texts
may appear in Notes and Discussion. IRAL targets a wide audience of
scholars, practitioners and students. Starting in 2002, the language of publication
is English only.
ITL Review of Applied Linguistics
Editor: Nicole Delbecque
Department of Linguistiek
K.U. Leuven
Faculteit Letteren
Blijde-Inkomststraat 21
B-3000 Leuven
Belgium
E-mail: Nicole.Delbecque@arts.kuleuven.ac.be
Description: Submissions are accepted in the field of applied linguistics,
in the broad sense, including foreign language learning.
Languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch.
Audience: Linguists and language teachers.
JALT Journal (The research journal of the Japan Association for Language
Teaching)
Editor: Nicholas O. Jungheim
Aoyama Gakuin University
Faculty of Law
4-4-25 Shibuya
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-8366
Japan
E-mail: noj@gol.com
URL: http://www.jalt.org/jj/
Description: The JALT Journal invites practical and theoretical articles
and research reports on second and foreign language teaching and learning
in Japanese, Asian, and other international contexts. Areas of particular
interest include curriculum design and teaching methods, classroom-centered
research, cross-cultural studies, testing and evaluation, teacher training,
language learning and acquisition, and overviews of research and practice
in related fields.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: Research Forum (short research
reports); Perspectives (short essays on language education or pedagogical
techniques framed in theory and supported by empirical data); Point to Point
(comments on previously published JALT Journal articles).
Journal of Asian Pacific Communication
Editor: Herbert D. Pierson
Institute of ESL
St. John's University
8000 Utopia Parkway
Jamaica, NY 11439
USA
E-mail: piersonh@stjohns.edu
URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/jbp/index.html
Description: The Journal of Asian Pacific Communication provides scholarly
discussion on language and communication issues as they impact the people
of the Asian Pacific or their diaspora immigrant communities worldwide. The
journal's academic orientation is generalist and collaborative, committed
to interdisciplinary approaches to language and communication.
Journal of Intensive English Studies (JIES)
Editor: Frank Pialorsi, Editor; Jonathan Seely, Associate Editor
University of Arizona
Center for English as a Second Language
P.O. Box 210024
Tucson, AZ 85721
USA
E-mail: pialorsi@u.arizona.edu
E-mail: jfseely@u.arizona.edu
URL: http://www.cesl.arizona.edu/jies.html
Description: The Journal of Intensive English Studies is devoted to
original studies of interest to faculty and administrators of intensive English
programs (IEPs). Its aim is to improve theory and practice in IEPs. The journal
welcomes theoretical, methodological, and practice-oriented manuscripts as
well as review articles.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: Squibs and Comment section for
short manuscripts and lecture presentations.
Journal of Language for International Business (JOLIB)
Editor: Christine Uber Grosse
Dept. of Modern Languages
Thunderbird
15249 N 59th Ave.
Glendale, AZ 85306-6012
USA
E-mail: grossec@t-bird.edu
URL: http://www.t-bird.edu/Journals/Jolib_Home.asp
Description: The Journal of Language for International Business (JOLIB),
published by Thunderbird, is a refereed journal for professionals in language
education, cross-cultural studies, and international business. JOLIB includes
reviews of instructional materials and educational technology. It is published
twice yearly.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: Nancy Jane Sinclair Business Language
Research Award for best JOLIB article.
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (JMMD)
Editor: John Edwards
St. Francis Xavier University
PO Box 5000
Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5
Canada
E-mail: jedwards@stfx.ca
URL: http://iago.stfx.ca/people/jedwards
Description: Although the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
has published on a wide variety of themes, it is increasingly devoted to macrolevel
work in the sociology and social psychology of language and culture. JMMD
is particularly interested in studies of language planning and policy, discussions
of language maintenance and shifts, and treatments of the relationships among
languages and ethnic/national identities. At another level, the journal welcomes
a variety of methodologies, from historical survey to contemporary empirical
analysis.
Other features beyond featured articles and reviews: Conference reports, comments,
replies and rejoinders.
Journal of Second Language Writing (JSLW)
Editors: Ilona Leki
Department of English
University of Tennessee
301 McClung Tower
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430
USA
E-mail: leki@utkux.utcc.utk.edu
Tony Silva
Department of English
Purdue University
1356 Heavilon Hall
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1356
USA
E-mail: tony@purdue.edu
URL: http://www.jslw.org/
Description: The Journal of Second Language Writing publishes essays
and reports of research on second and foreign language writing and writing
instruction.
Other departments beyond featured articles: From the Editors (introductions
and announcements); Dialogue (responses to previously published articles);
Bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing.
Korea TESOL Journal
Editor: Robert J. Dickey, managing editor
Kyongju University
42-1 Hyohyun-dong
Kyongju, Kyongbuk 780-712
South Korea
E-mail: rjdickey@kyongju.ac.kr
URL: http://www.kotesol.org/
Description: Korea TESOL Journal welcomes previously unpublished practical
and theoretical articles on topics of significance to the teaching of EFL,
including classroom-centered research, cross-cultural studies, SLA, teaching
and curriculum methods, teacher training, and testing and evaluation. Submissions
drawing on relevant research and addressing implications and applications
of this research, as well as action research papers, are particularly welcome.
Content should be accessible to a broad readership, including those unfamiliar
with the subject matter. Submissions from English language contexts around
the world, with particular reference to learners from northeast Asia, are
welcome.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: The Forum publishes comments and
reactions from readers regarding specific aspects or practices of our profession,
including brief discussions of qualitative and quantitative research issues
and teaching issues. Although these contributions are typically solicited,
readers may send topic suggestions or make known their availability as contributors.
Serial Publication Descriptions... L-Z
Language
Editor: Mark Aronoff
Department of Linguistics
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4376
USA
E-mail: language.eds@sunysb.edu
URL: http://www.lsadc.org/language/
Description: Language, the journal of the Linguistic Society
of America, carries technical articles dealing with problems of linguistic
science, reviews of recently published linguistic works, and notes of interest
to professional linguists.
Language Learning
Editor: Nick C. Ellis
School of Psychology
University of Wales
Bangor
Gwynedd LL57 2DG
Wales
United Kingdom
E-mail: n.ellis@bangor.ac.uk
URL: http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=00238333
Description: Language Learning is a scientific journal dedicated
to the understanding of language learning, broadly defined. It publishes research
articles that systematically apply methods of inquiry from disciplines including
psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, educational inquiry, neuroscience,
ethnography, sociolinguistics, sociology, and semiotics. It is concerned with
fundamental theoretical issues in language learning, such as child, second,
and foreign language acquisition; language education; bilingualism; literacy;
language representation in mind and brain; culture; cognition; pragmatics;
and intergroup relations.
Language Learning & Technology (LLT)
Editors: Mark Warschauer and Dorothy Chun
LLT
NFLRC
University of Hawaii at Manoa
1859 East-West Road, #106
Honolulu, HI 96822
USA
E-mail: llt-editors@hawaii.edu
URL: http://llt.msu.edu/
Description: Language Learning & Technology (LLT) is an
international, refereed journal published on the World Wide Web. It is of
interest to applied linguists, graduate students, and classroom teachers seeking
the latest research and theories related to the use of new technologies in
language learning. In addition to feature articles, LLT publishes short commentaries
discussing material previously published in the journal or otherwise offering
interesting opinions on issues related to language learning and technology.
LLT also features two regular columns by LLT columnists ("On the Net" discusses
Web sites related to language learning and "Emerging Technologies" discusses
new technologies for use in language learning) as well as book and software
reviews.
The Language Teacher (Japan Association for Language Teaching)
Editors: Robert Long and Scott Gardner
3-26 Sensui-cho
Tobata-ku
Kitakyushu-shi, 804
Japan
E-mail: tlt_ed@jalt.org
URL: http://www.jalt.org/tlt/
Description: The Language Teacher welcomes submissions concerned
with all aspects of language teaching, particularly with relevance to teachers
in Japan, who are the journal's primary audience. Most articles have application
to pedagogy and the classroom situation. At least one article per issue is
published in Japanese.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: My Share section (up to 1,500
words) on teaching techniques, materials, and procedures; opinion articles
(1,000 words); coverage of JALT member chapters and SIG activities (1,000
words); conference reports.
Language Teaching Research
Editor: Keith Johnson
Dept. of Linguistics & Modern English Language
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YT
United Kingdom
E-mail: k.johnson@lancaster.ac.uk
Nicole McLeod, Associate Editor
80 Front Street East, Unit 601
Toronto, Ontario M5E 1T4
Canada
E-mail: njmcleod@istar.ca
URL: http://www.arnoldpublishers.com/Journals/Journpages/13621688.htm
Description: Language Teaching Research supports and develops
investigation and research within the area of second or foreign language teaching.
Research of both a quantitative and qualitative (including ethnographic) orientation
is of interest to the journal, which as a matter of policy publishes work
related to the teaching of any second language, not just English. A wide range
of topics within the area of language teaching are covered, including issues
concerned with program, syllabus and materials design, methodology, the teaching
of specific skills and language for specific purposes. All papers published
have a research focus and are relevant to the teaching (not just learning)
of a foreign language.
Language Testing
Editors: Dan Douglas
English Department
Iowa State University
203 Ross Hall
Ames, Iowa 50011
USA
E-mail: dandoug@iastate.edu
John Read
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
Victoria University of Wellington
P.O. Box 600
Wellington, New Zealand
E-mail: john.read@vuw.ac.nz
URL: http://www.arnoldpublishers.com/Journals/Journpages/02655322.htm
Description: Language Testing publishes articles in the fields
of second and foreign language testing, mother-tongue testing, and assessment
of language disability. It also publishes articles reporting language projects
and program evaluations that have theoretical implications for language testing.
Equal preference is given to empirically-based research bearing on theoretical
issues and theoretical articles offering a critical review and analysis of
a theoretical issue of current interest to the field.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: Responses and replies; yearly
special issue.
MEXTESOL Journal
Editors: Connie R. Johnson, Natalia Martinez Leon
Depto. de Lenguas
Universidad de las Americas-Puebla
Sta. Catarina Martir
Cholula, Puebla 72820
Mexico
E-mail: mxtesolj@mail.udlap.mx
URL: http://webserver.udlap.mx/~lldl_www/congreso/mexjournal/mexjournal.html
Description: MEXTESOL Journal is the professional journal of
the Mexican Association of Teachers of English to Students of Other Languages.
It is one of the few professional journals dedicated to the EFL teacher that
is published in a non-English-speaking country and the only bilingual (English/Spanish)
EFL journal in the Americas. It welcomes articles from all parts of the world,
written in English or Spanish, that deal with issues related to EFL teaching
and research. The journal is divided into four sections: 1) Research Issues
contains articles based on original research; 2) Professional Practice contains
articles with direct classroom application; 3) Commentaries focus on new techniques
or respond to previously published articles; and 4) Book Reviews cover new
ESL textbooks and professional interest books.
Modern Language Journal (MLJ)
Editor: Sally Sieloff Magnan
University of Wisconsin-Madison
618 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1558
USA
E-mail: mlj@lss.wisc.edu
URL: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/mlj/
Description: The Modern Language Journal is devoted to research
and discussion about the teaching and learning of second and foreign languages.
It publishes essays, response articles, and quantitative and qualitative research.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: Biannual Perspectives Articles
and Commentaries, yearly survey of doctoral dissertations, News & Notes
of the Profession, column listing articles about second language learning
published in other professional journals.
Multilingua
Editor: Richard J. Watts
University of Berne
Department of English
Laenggass-Strasse 49
3000 Berne 9
Switzerland
E-mail: watts@ens.unibe.ch
URL: http://www.degruyter.de/journals/multilin/index.html
Description: Multilingua is an international, interdisciplinary
journal aimed at the enhancement of cross-cultural understanding through the
study of interlanguage communication. To this end, it publishes articles and
short notes in fields as diverse as cross-cultural differences in linguistic
politeness phenomena; variety in what is traditionally regarded as one-culture
conversational styles; and the linguistic description of nonstandard, oral
varieties of language, as well as other sociolinguistic fields.
Prospect: A Journal of Australian TESOL
Editors: Gillian Wigglesworth
Dept. of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 3010
Australia
E-mail: gillianw@unimelb.edu.au
Lynda Yates
Institute for Education and AMEP Research Centre
La Trobe University
Bandoora VIC 3086
Australia
E-mail: lynda.yates@latrobe.edu.au
URL: http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/prospect/prospect.htm
Description: Prospect: A Journal of Australian TESOL is the
national journal of the Australian Adult Migrant English Program and acts
as a forum for those professionally involved in TESOL and applied linguistics
in Australia. Prospect endeavors to balance the basic practical realities
that influence the development of the profession with discussion of relevant
and significant theoretical issues.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: Forthcoming events; Practical
Teaching Ideas.
PASAA
Editor: Pavinee Nacarat
Chulalongkorn University
Language Institute
Phyathai Rd.
Bangkok 10330
Thailand
Description: PASAA aims to present information and ideas in
curriculum design and development, testing and evaluation, teacher training,
and issues in language learning and teaching.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: Interviews; reports.
Reading in a Foreign Language
Editors: Jane Spiro, Diana Lubelska
INTEC, University College of St. Mark & St. John
Derriford Road
Plymouth PL6 8BH
United Kingdom
E-mail: jspiro@marjon.ac.uk
Description: Reading in a Foreign Language strives to contribute
to the theory and practice of second language reading pedagogy.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: Discussions by materials writers
of motivation for material.
The Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal
Editors: Meena Singhal
Long Beach City College
Department of English as a Second Language
Long Beach, CA 90806
USA
E-mail: editors@readingmatrix.com
John Liontas, coeditor
University of Notre Dame
Department of German and Russian
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5602
USA
E-mail: jliontas@nd.edu
URL: http://www.readingmatrix.com/journal.html
Description: The Reading Matrix is a fully refereed on-line
journal published twice a year. Our broad readership includes graduate students,
teachers, and researchers. The journal is particularly interested in areas
dealing with L2 reading and writing, English teaching, applied linguistics,
SLA, language assessment, applied socio- and psycholinguistics, and technology
and literacy. The journal includes book reviews and software reviews.
ReCALL
Editors: Graham Chesters, June Thompson
EUROCALL
The Language Institute
University of Hull
Cottingham Road
Hull HU6 7RX
United Kingdom
E-mail: eurocall@hull.ac.uk
URLs: http://www.hull.ac.uk/cti/pubs/pubs.htm
http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/
Description: ReCALL is a key publication for everyone concerned
with the use of technologies in language learning, on both theoretical and
practical levels. Typical topics include theoretical debate on language learning
strategies and their influence on courseware design, practical applications
at the developmental stage, evaluative studies of courseware use in the teaching
and learning process, exploitation and assessment of the potential of technological
advances in the delivery of language learning materials, and discussions of
policy and strategy at institutional and discipline levels. ReCALL also includes
a Diary Page, which lists forthcoming events worldwide in the area of computer-assisted
language learning.
RELC Journal
Editor: Makhan Lal Tickoo
RELC Journal
Regional Language Center
Singapore 1025
URL: http://www.relc.org.sg/pubjou.htm
Description: The RELC Journal prefers papers that address the
products of empirical study, classroom-based techniques, clinical case studies,
descriptions of proven materials, methodologies, techniques, and those based
on work done in or related to Asian second language teaching or Asian languages
in classrooms or under study.
South African Journal of Applied Language Studies (SAJALS)
Editor: Aria Merkestein
English Studies Department
University of the North
Private Bag X1100
Sovenga 0727
South Africa
E-mail: ariam@unin.unorth.ac.za
Description: The South African Journal of Applied Language Studies
(SAJALS) is an internationally refereed publication that aims to forge links
between linguists and language theorists, researchers and language practitioners
in all South African languages. Applied Language Studies, in the title of
the journal, is used as a cover term for applied linguistics, language education,
pragmatics, communication and media studies, plus other related disciplines.
Standpoints
Editor: Elyane Comarteau
31, rue de la Vanne
91210 Montrouge
France
Description: Standpoints publishes articles on the English-speaking
world aimed at EFL teachers in France, classroom activities from primary to
upper education, book reviews, background information, and two audiocassettes
a year.
Studies in Second Language Acquisition (SSLA)
Editor: Albert Valdman
1105 E. Atwater
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47401
USA
E-mail: ssla@indiana.edu
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~ssla/
Description: Studies in Second Language Acquisition is a refereed
journal devoted to problems and issues in second and foreign language acquisition
of any language. Theoretically based articles reporting research studies are
preferred; however, empirical investigations of the interface between SLA
and language pedagogy are also welcome.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: State of the Art articles (recent
theoretical approaches or methodologies); response articles; Point and Counterpoint
articles; one thematic issue per year.
System
Editor: Norman Davies
Department of Language and Culture
University of Linkoping
581 83
Sweden
E-mail: norda@isk.liu.se
Review Editors: Paul Meara and Nuria Lorenzo-Dos
Centre for Applied Language Studies
University of Wales
Swansea SA2 8PP
United Kingdom
E-mail: p.m.meara@swansea.ac.uk
URL: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/system
Description: System is an international journal devoted to the
applications of educational technology and applied linguistics to problems
of foreign language teaching and learning, including ESL/EFL. System
is one of the five most cited journals in the field of applied linguistics
in Linguistics Abstracts.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: Congress Calendar, CETaLL News.
TESL Canada Journal/Revue TESL du Canada
Editors: Patrick G. Mathews, Sandra G. Kouritzin
University of Manitoba
287 Faculty of Education
Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2
Canada
E-mail: pmathews@ms.umanitoba.ca
Description: TESL Canada Journal invites the submission of previously
unpublished manuscripts concerning diverse aspects of the teaching and learning
of ESL/EFL/SESD, including syllabus and curriculum design, testing and evaluation,
psycholinguistics, applied linguistics, teacher training, methodology, and
computer-assisted learning.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: A Perspectives section for reactions,
viewpoints, and keynote addresses; In the Classroom section for descriptions
of teaching techniques or activities (10-page limit).
TESL-EJ (electronic journal)
Editors: Maggie Sokolik
College Writing Programs
216 Dwinelle Annex
MC 2500
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2500
USA
E-mail: sokolik@socrates.berkeley.edu
Thomas N. Robb
Department of English
Faculty of Foreign Languages
Kyoto Sangyo University
Kita-ku, Kyoto 603
Japan
E-mail: trobb@cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp
URL: http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/
Description: TESL-EJ publishes original articles in the research
and practice of English as a second or foreign language. TESL-EJ welcomes
studies in ESL/EFL pedagogy, second language acquisition, language assessment,
applied socio- and psycholinguistics, and other related areas.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: A column on the Internet and Learning;
a Forum section for discussion issues; and a Classroom Focus column, which
features an in-depth look at a teaching practice in a specific cultural situation.
TESL Reporter
Editor: Mark O. James
BYU-Hawai'i Box 1940
Laie, HI 96762
USA
E-mail: jamesm@byuh.edu
Description: TESL Reporter is a semiannual journal for and by
teachers of English as a second/foreign language. Published by Brigham Young
University-Hawai'i Campus, it is dedicated to the dissemination of ideas and
issues of interest to teachers worldwide. Subscriptions are free outside the
United States.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: Tips for Teachers is a section
for shorter, non-referreed contributions.
TESOL Journal
Editor: Stephen J. Stoynoff
Department of English
230 Armstrong Hall
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Mankato, MN 56001
USA
E-mails: stephen.stoynoff@mnsu.edu
tesol-journal@mnsu.edu
URL: http://www.tesol.org/pubs/magz/tj.html
Description: TESOL Journal publishes articles that discuss teaching
English as a second, foreign, or additional language to learners of all ages,
in any setting. TJ invites manuscripts on a wide range of topics, including,
but not limited to, current ESOL methodology, curriculum materials and design,
teacher development, literacy, bilingual education, and classroom inquiry
and research. Inquiry and research should be located within a broad theoretical
framework or related to a set of theoretical principles but should retain
a practical focus.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: Tips From the Classroom (practical
suggestions for classroom activities); Perspectives (writers' views on ESOL-related
sociopolitical and professional concerns around the world); Heard On the Web
(a brief summary of an ESOL-related question and discussion from a professional
e-mail discussion list).
TESOL Quarterly
Editor: Carol A. Chapelle
Department of English
203 Ross Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
USA
E-mail: carolc@iastate.edu
URL: http://www.tesol.org/pubs/magz/tq.html
Description: TESOL Quarterly invites manuscripts that bridge
the gap between theory and practice in language learning and teaching. Appropriate
areas of submission include curriculum design and development; instructional
methods, materials, and techniques; issues in research and research methodology;
testing and evaluation; professional preparation; language planning; and professional
standards.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: Notices; Brief Reports and Summaries;
The Forum (includes research and teaching issues).
ThaiTESOL Bulletin
Editor: Nicholas Dimmitt
Asian Institute of Technology
Center for Language and Educational Technology
PO Box 4, Klong Luang
Pathumthani, 12120
Thailand
E-mail: nick@ait.ac.th
URL: http://www.thaitesol.org/
Description: The ThaiTESOL Bulletin publishes original articles
related to EFL pedagogy, techniques, curriculum design or teacher development
that are of interest to the ThaiTESOL readership. More than 80% of the journal's
audience are Thai nationals teaching English as a foreign language in government
or private schools in Thailand.
Other features beyond articles and reviews: Classroom Tips (accounts of techniques,
methods, materials and/or ideas that teachers have tried and found successful
in their classrooms).
World Englishes
Editors: Braj B. Kachru
Department of Linguistics
University of Illinois
3150 Foreign Languages Bldg.
707 South Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
USA
E-mail: b-kachru@staff.uiuc.edu
Larry E. Smith
East-West Center
University of Hawaii
1777 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96848
USA
Description: World Englishes (WE) is devoted to the study of
the forms and functions of varieties of English, both native and nonnative,
in diverse cultural and sociolinguistic contexts. WE publishes original contributions
on any aspect of English studies in the broadest sense, including language,
literature, and methodology. The emphasis is on placing linguistics and literature
within a theoretical framework. Other features beyond articles and reviews:
Comments; symposia of special interest; review articles; and thematic issues.