Issues in Applied Linguistics
Last updated ISSN 1050-4273
Issues in Applied Linguistics is published by UCLA Department of Applied Linguistics in arts and humanities. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Issues in Applied Linguistics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
Key facts
| Publisher | UCLA Department of Applied Linguistics |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1050-4273, 2379-4542 |
| Subject area | Arts and Humanities |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Not recorded |
| Articles published | 355 |
| Publishing since | 1990 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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