Modern Language Journal
Last updated ISSN 0026-7902
Modern Language Journal is published by Wiley in arts and humanities. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,800.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Modern Language Journal concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
- Lexicography and Language Studies
- Linguistic Education and Pedagogy
- Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
- Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
- Linguistic research and analysis
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
Key facts
| Publisher | Wiley |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0026-7902, 1540-4781 |
| Subject area | Arts and Humanities |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,800 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 24,463 |
| Publishing since | 1916 |
| Journal website | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15404781 |
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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