Modern Language Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Modern Language Journal is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Concept‐based language instruction and the teaching of citation in English academic writing91
Toward Cognitive and Temporal Mobility: Language Considerations in Refugee Education63
Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Teachers: A Curricular Perspective56
Gender‐justice beyond inclusion: How trans knowledges and linguistic practices can and should be re‐shaping language education45
Index to Volume 105, 202132
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Triangulating learner corpus and online experimental data: Evidence from gender agreement and relative clauses in L2 Greek26
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Nurturing Teachers’ Research Mindset in an Inquiry‐Based Language Teacher Education Course23
An evaluation of a multidimensional identity measurement instrument: The heritage language speaker identity tool (HLS‐IT)20
Combinations and Connections: Reaching Across Disciplinary Boundaries20
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Pero yo también estoy aprendiendo”: Negotiating expert and novice positions in heritage–second language learner interaction15
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Localized Globalization: Directives in Augmented Reality Game Interaction15
Notes from the Editor14
Between teacher candidates’ reflection and teacher educators’ evaluation: Fluctuations in epistemic (a)symmetry in feedback conversations13
Intentional and Incidental Vocabulary Learning: The Role of Historical Linguistics in the Second Language Classroom13
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Is evidence‐based L2 pedagogy achievable? The research–practice dialogue in grammar instruction12
A Q Methodology Study Into Vision of Italian L2 University Students: An Australian Perspective12
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The Effects of Textually Enhanced Captions on Written Elicited Imitation in L2 Grammar12
Scaffolding comprehension with reading while listening and the role of reading speed and text complexity12
Rethinking Mobility and Language: From the Global South11
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NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grant11
Forging common ground in second language acquisition and teaching: A combined synergy statement10
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Navigating competing goals for language in curricularized school settings: Lessons from teachers of multilingual students10
The effects of distributed versus massed corrective feedback on the acquisition of Spanish differential object marking10
A psycholinguistic perspective on SLA/T10
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Congratulations to the NFMLTA/MLJ Award and Grant Recipients9
Sociocultural theory and classroom second language learning in the East Asian context: Introduction to the special issue9
Sign language for all? Profile and retention of students in a beginner sign language program9
Navigating the SLA/T conceptual landscape and investing in transdisciplinary practices9
Equitable language allocation and program models in dual language bilingual education: From oversimplification to decision‐making processes at all scales9
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Resumes and job postings as cognitive tools for narrating Anglophone language learners’ multilingual–professional identities and trajectories in career advising appointments8
The future of language learning teaching in a technology‐mediated 21st century8
Assessing spoken lexical and lexicogrammatical proficiency using features of word, bigram, and dependency bigram use8
Bilingual heritage language learning in China: Applying the Douglas Fir Group's transdisciplinary framework8
Cultivating a new ecosystem in English language teaching: A focus on researchers in a textbook development project8
Decoding EFL learners’ internalization of English modal verbs in concept‐based language instruction: Integrating SCOBAs with languaging8
The impact of explicit instruction in intercultural competence in the world language classroom7
Improving self‐regulated learning of speaking skills in foreign languages7
Intergenerational autoethnography of heritage language maintenance: Focusing on emotion, identity, and power7
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Cooperative Accomplishment of Multilingual Language Tutorial: An Intercultural Pragmatics Study7
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Can Japanese learners of English comprehend inflectional and derivational forms in listening? Testing the validity of the word family counting unit6
Memory and motivation in language revitalization practice6
Pedagogies of discomfort in the world language classroom: Ethical tensions and considerations for educators6
Academic Perseverance in Foreign Language Learning: An Investigation of Language‐Specific Grit and Its Conceptual Correlates6
Task complexity and L2 writing performance of young learners: Contributions of cognitive and affective factors6
Explanations for language choice in the social context of the L2 classroom6
Unfolding language awareness in a plurilingual context: A study of metalinguistic, practical, and critical language awareness6
Modeling mediation in the dynamic assessment of listening ability from the cognitive diagnostic perspective6
“I Preferred to Take Another Activity From the Textbook”: An Activity–Theoretical Study of Learning to Design Language Teaching Materials6
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 109 (Supplement 2025)6
Bridging the Researcher–Practitioner Divide Through Community‐Engaged Action Research: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Exploration6
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Generative artificial intelligence, co‐evolution, and language education5
Pedagogical processes and standard dialect use: Implications for creative multilingual interaction from a Yorùbá‐language classroom in southwestern Nigeria5
Use of word lists in a high‐stakes, low‐exposure context: Topic‐driven or frequency‐informed5
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Helping learners develop autonomy in acquiring multiword expressions5
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Irony Comprehension in Bidialectal Speakers4
Emotions and the language‐ness of experience in heritage language lives4
The Mobility of Ideologies in Language Teacher Education4
Tracking learnables and teachables in L2 Arabic dyadic conversations‐for‐learning4
Withdrawn: Exploring the associations among task complexity, task motivation, task engagement, and linguistic complexity in L2 writing4
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Visualizing Emergent Turn Construction: Seeing Writing While Speaking4
Timothy F. McNamara (1949–2023), in memoriam14
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 107, (Supplement 2023)4
Index to Volume 106, 20224
Researcher‐Supported Professional Learning and Development for Instructors in Adult L2 Programs: Factors Leading to Ongoing Communities of Practice3
Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones: Understanding and Integrating Social Justice in Chinese Language Class3
Bridging the Gap Between Willingness to Communicate and Learner Talk3
Comprehensible to Whom? Examining Rater, Speaker, and Interlocutor Perspectives on Comprehensibility in an Interactive Context3
Academic word difficulty and multidimensional lexical sophistication: An English‐for‐academic‐purposes‐focused conceptual replication of Hashimoto and Egbert (2019)3
Notes From the Editor3
Congratulations to the NFMLTA/MLJ Award and Grant Recipients3
The Efficacy of Incidental Attention to Formulaic and Nonformulaic Forms in Focus on Form3
Functional Diversification and Progressive Routinization of a Multiword Expression in and for Social Interaction: A Longitudinal L2 Study3
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In it Together: Teachers, Researchers, and Classroom SLA3
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Linguistic and Artistic Representations of Trauma: The Contribution of Pedagogies of Discomfort in Language Education3
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Teacher Beliefs About Second Language Research and Researchers: Different Roles at Research‐Oriented Universities3
May I See Your Credentials, Please? Displays of Pedagogical Expertise by Language Teaching Researchers3
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The social consequences of talking to oneself: The dialectical continuum of social and private speech2
The Relative Contribution of Language Complexity to Second Language Video Lectures Difficulty Assessment2
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 106 (Supplement 2022)2
International Teaching Assistants Offer More Than Their English Accents: A Response to “The ‘Foreign TA Problem’ Forty Years On”2
Language education in a brave new world: A dialectical imagination2
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The Negotiation of Meaning in Aviation English as a Lingua Franca: A Corpus‐Informed Discursive Approach2
Communicative Effectiveness in BELF (English as a Business Lingua Franca) Meetings: ‘Explaining’ as a Pragmatic Strategy2
The “Foreign TA Problem” Forty Years On2
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Does Mode of Input Affect How Second Language Learners Create Form–Meaning Connections and Pronounce Second Language Words?1
Elaine K. Horwitz (1950–2022) In Memoriam1
Implementing the Seal of Biliteracy: A Multiple Case Study of Six High‐Awarding Districts1
Translanguaging as a space of simultaneity: Theorizing translanguaging pedagogies in English medium schools from a spatial perspective1
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Heritage identity and Indigenous language learning motivation: A case of Indigenous Taiwanese high school students1
The correlates of flow in the L2 classroom: Linking basic L2 task features to learner flow experiences1
Exploring the lexical profile of advanced L2 writers: Longitudinal data from the Russian Overseas Flagship program1
Reframing “the Foreign TA Problem” as “the American Listener Problem”1
Bringing the body into play: The corporeal aspect in second language acquisition1
How Output Outweighs Input and Interlocutors Matter for Study‐Abroad SLA: Computational Social Network Analysis of Learner Interactions1
Teachers’ multimodal resources for delegated peer repair: Maximizing interactional space in whole‐class interaction in the foreign language classroom1
Some considerations on the emotions of heritage language learners, teachers, and users1
What Does Explicit Knowledge Look Like? An Analysis of Information Structure in Rule Formation by L2 Learners and Its Relationship With Guided Inductive Learning1
Stance‐Taking in Heritage Language Writing1
The importance of seeking feedback for benefiting from feedback: A case of second language writing1
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Proficiency and Preference Organization in Second Language Mandarin Chinese Refusals1
L2 Classroom Input and L2 Positionally Sensitive Grammars: The Role of Information‐Seeking Question Sequences1
Effects of written languaging on second language learning: Mediating roles of aptitude1
Out‐of‐classroom L2 vocabulary acquisition: The effects of digital activities and school vocabulary1
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Translingual caring and translingual aggression: (Re)centering criticality in the research and practice of translanguaging pedagogy1
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“I Look Mexican, So They Assume I Speak Spanish”: Latinx Teacher Candidates’ Experiences With Raciolinguistic Policing0
Japanese Students’ Emotional Lived Experiences in English Language Learning, Learner Identities, and Their Transformation0
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Spoken word choreographies in additional language learning practices in upper secondary school: Entanglements between languaging‐and‐dancing0
A translanguager's take on a synergy‐driven SLA/T0
The effect of the cognitive–emotional dialectic on L2 development: Enhancing our understanding of perezhivanie0
Noun‐Phrase Complexity Measures in Chinese and Their Relationship to L2 Chinese Writing Quality: A Comparison with Topic–Comment‐Unit‐Based Measures0
Effects of Plurilingual Teaching on Grammatical Development in Early Foreign‐Language Learning0
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Language, people, classrooms, world: Blending disparate theories for united language education practices0
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Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 106, 30
Stories of struggle and resilience: Examining the experiences of two Spanish teachers through history in person0
The issue: New technologies and language education0
Theorizing agency from a complex dynamic systems theory perspective: Evidence from language learner narratives in online shadow education0
Effectiveness of Yoruba proverbs in acquiring Yoruba language and culture0
Open generative AI changes a lot, but not everything0
Building a community‐centered archive for Cherokee language description, documentation, and reclamation0
Diverse perspectives on second language learning and teaching (SLA/T) research in dialogue, co‐constructing common ground: A commentary0
Forthcoming in Modern Language Journal, 105, 30
Understanding the factors supporting language teachers’ sustained motivation until retirement0
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Exploring avenues of implementation for gender justice in French language teaching0
At the Intersection of SLA and Sociolinguistics: The Predictive Power of Social Networks During Study Abroad0
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Congratulations to the NFMLTA/MLJ Award and Grant Recipients in 20210
An appraisal‐based examination of language teacher emotions in anxiety‐provoking classroom situations using vignette methodology0
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First and second language use in an early total one‐way Chinese immersion classroom0
Primary school children's conflicted emotions about using their heritage languages in multilingual classroom tasks0
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 106, 20
Emergent L2 Grammars in and for Social Interaction: Introduction to the Special Issue0
The Relationship Between Utterance and Perceived Fluency: A Meta‐Analysis of Correlational Studies0
Beyond Language: Reframing the Foreign Teaching Assistant Instruction Through Materiality Perspective0
From the Editor: In Recognition and With Appreciation0
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Does spaced practice have the same effects on different second language vocabulary learning activities? Fill‐in‐the‐blanks versus flashcards0
Discursive Enactment of Agency in Study‐Abroad Interviews0
(Re)constructing and (re)negotiating identities: A case study of postsecondary language teachers and social justice education0
Introduction to the guest‐edited issue: Synergies in second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T)0
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Second Language Speech Intelligibility Revisited: Differential Roles of Phonological Accuracy, Visual Speech, and Iconic Gesture0
By the Old Gods and the New: The Effect of the Congruence and Incongruence of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety and Enjoyment on Self‐Perceived Proficiency0
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Navigating complexity: A critical perspective on language assessment in SLA/T0
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Emotions and emotion regulation in L2 classroom speaking tasks: A mixed‐methods study combining the idiodynamic and quantitative perspectives0
The processing of multiword expressions in L1 and L2 Chinese: Evidence from reaction times and eye movements0
Trans theory: Complexifying positionality, complexifying representation0
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Long‐term language use by US‐based study‐abroad alumni: Activity types and program effects0
In solidarity: The coalitional work of gender justice and language education0
Identification and Characteristics of Strong, Average, and Weak Foreign Language Readers: The Simple View of Reading Model0
Learning and Teaching Pragmatics in the Globalized World: Commentary0
Exploring Boundedness for Concept‐Based Instruction of Aspect: Evidence From Learning the Spanish Preterite and Imperfect0
The Relationship Between Lexical Coverage and Type of Reading Comprehension in Beginning L2 Spanish Learners0
The pursuit of a gender‐just language classroom0
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, (Supplement 2024)0
From the Editor: In Recognition and With Appreciation0
The role of individual learner differences in explicit language instruction0
Forced (Im)Mobilities at the Nexus of Race and Language in Pandemic Times0
Relationality, interconnectedness, and identity: A process‐focused approach to second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T)0
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Learning and Teaching Pragmatics in the Globalized World: Introduction to the Special Issue0
The Role of Language Teacher Metacognition and Executive Function in Exemplary Classroom Practice0
How do learners perceive task repetition? Distributed practice effects on engagement and metacognitive judgment0
Social virtual reality for L2 Spanish development: Learning how to interact with others in a high‐immersion virtual space0
Collaborative Mobilizations of Interbodied Communication for Cooperative Action0
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Sociolinguistic competence and varietal repertoires in a second language: A study on addressee‐dependent varietal behavior using virtual reality0
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Yalla Nutbikh “Let's cook”: Negotiating emotions of belonging through food in heritage language classrooms0
Give you some color: Chinese language teachers’ encounters of race and racialization in American K–12 schools0
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Promoting young EFL learners’ listening potential: A model of mediation in the framework of dynamic assessment0
Call for applications for the editorship of The Modern Language Journal0
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Fairness, Justice, and the Certification of Teaching Competence for International Teaching Assistants0
Emergency Remote Language Teaching and U.S.‐Based College‐Level World Language Educators’ Intention to Adopt Online Teaching in Postpandemic Times0
Digital Game‐Based Learning of Formulaic Expressions in Second Language Chinese0
Schrödinger's turn: An interactional examination of willingness to communicate and talk in codependent and competitive group talk0
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Task communicative function and oral fluency of L1 and L2 speakers0
Praxeology, humanism, equity, and mixed methods: Four pillars for advancing second language acquisition and teaching0
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Exploring phonetic predictors of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and foreign accent in L2 Spanish speech0
NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grants0
Learners’ Engagement in L2 Computer‐Mediated Interaction: Chat Mode, Interlocutor Familiarity, and Text Quality0
Implementation of an Uncontrolled, Real‐World Task: Vocabulary Learning Opportunities and Students’ Perceptions0
English learners’ beliefs about L2 speaking fluency: Insights from elicited metaphor analysis0
A Meta‐Analysis of Hybrid Language Instruction and Call for Future Research0
Misconduct and Questionable Research Practices: The Ethics of Quantitative Data Handling and Reporting in Applied Linguistics0
Undoing cislingualism0
L2 grammar‐for‐interaction: Functions of “and”‐prefaced turns in L2 students’ collaborative talk0
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An asymmetrical partnership: The shifting onus of Hmong heritage language teaching from families to dual‐language programs0
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Diverse perspectives on second language learning and teaching (SLA/T) research in dialogue, co‐constructing common ground: A response0
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The Development and Validation of the Short Form of the Foreign Language Enjoyment Scale0
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Literature and second language vocabulary learning: The role of text type and teaching approach0
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