Language Problems & Language Planning
Last updated ISSN 0272-2690
Language Problems & Language Planning is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Language Problems & Language Planning concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
- Linguistic research and analysis
- Linguistic Education and Pedagogy
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Gender Studies in Language
- Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0272-2690, 1569-9889 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,006 |
| Publishing since | 1977 |
| Journal website | benjamins.com/catalog/lplp |
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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