Journal of English as a Lingua Franca
Last updated ISSN 2191-9216
Journal of English as a Lingua Franca is published by De Gruyter in arts and humanities. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $2,712.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of English as a Lingua Franca concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition
Key facts
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2191-9216, 2191-933X |
| Subject area | Arts and Humanities |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $2,712 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 353 |
| Publishing since | 2012 |
| Journal website | www.degruyter.com/view/j/jelf |
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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