Journal of Second Language Studies
Last updated ISSN 2542-3835
Journal of Second Language Studies is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company in psychology. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Second Language Studies concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Language Development and Disorders
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
Key facts
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2542-3835, 2542-3843 |
| Subject area | Psychology |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 147 |
| Publishing since | 2018 |
| Journal website | www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/25423843 |
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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