Journal of Second Language Writing
Last updated ISSN 1060-3743
Journal of Second Language Writing is published by Elsevier BV in arts and humanities. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,830.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Second Language Writing concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Writing and Handwriting Education
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Student Assessment and Feedback
- Educational Robotics and Engineering
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1060-3743, 1873-1422 |
| Subject area | Arts and Humanities |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,830 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,436 |
| Publishing since | 1992 |
| Journal website | www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_hom |
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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