Modern Language Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Modern Language Journal is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Notes from the Editor65
Assessing lexical proficiency in Russian as a second language using indices of lexical sophistication, diversity, and fluency46
From problem to right: Imaginative speculation on translanguaging in the world language classroom45
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On the matter of matter in second language education: A “mixed” review of current research31
Triangulating learner corpus and online experimental data: Evidence from gender agreement and relative clauses in L2 Greek29
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Global geopolitics, migration, and language education in the United States28
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, 228
Researcher‐Supported Professional Learning and Development for Instructors in Adult L2 Programs: Factors Leading to Ongoing Communities of Practice26
In it Together: Teachers, Researchers, and Classroom SLA25
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Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 110 (Supplement 2026)22
Visualizing Emergent Turn Construction: Seeing Writing While Speaking22
Comprehensible to Whom? Examining Rater, Speaker, and Interlocutor Perspectives on Comprehensibility in an Interactive Context21
Give you some color: Chinese language teachers’ encounters of race and racialization in American K–12 schools21
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Teachers’ multimodal resources for delegated peer repair: Maximizing interactional space in whole‐class interaction in the foreign language classroom20
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The demographic landscape of Spanish language teaching research: A cross‐national study19
NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grants18
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How Output Outweighs Input and Interlocutors Matter for Study‐Abroad SLA: Computational Social Network Analysis of Learner Interactions18
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EDITORS’ NOTE17
A small lens on timescales and multimodality in classroom language learning emotions17
Developing advanced L2 German writing: A functionally oriented longitudinal study17
Brief but Mighty? Sustained L2 Learning and Perceived Psychobehavioral Benefits After Short‐Term Study Abroad17
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Beyond Language: Reframing the Foreign Teaching Assistant Instruction Through Materiality Perspective16
Index to Volume 107, 202316
Relationality, interconnectedness, and identity: A process‐focused approach to second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T)16
Un strålande futuro needs mehr dan два langues—A bright future needs more than two languages115
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, (Supplement 2024)15
Introducing the special issue. Critical reflections on colonial pedagogies: Lessons learned for language teacher education15
NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grant15
Task communicative function and oral fluency of L1 and L2 speakers14
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Exploring phonetic predictors of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and foreign accent in L2 Spanish speech13
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Exploring Boundedness for Concept‐Based Instruction of Aspect: Evidence From Learning the Spanish Preterite and Imperfect13
The canary in coal country: Educational policy, politics, and the dissolution of a language department13
Negotiating family language policy: Emotional experiences and playful language input in heritage language learning13
The role of individual learner differences in explicit language instruction12
Yalla Nutbikh “Let's cook”: Negotiating emotions of belonging through food in heritage language classrooms12
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Navigating the SLA/T conceptual landscape and investing in transdisciplinary practices11
Decoding EFL learners’ internalization of English modal verbs in concept‐based language instruction: Integrating SCOBAs with languaging10
Memory and motivation in language revitalization practice10
Sociocultural theory and classroom second language learning in the East Asian context: Introduction to the special issue10
The effects of distributed versus massed corrective feedback on the acquisition of Spanish differential object marking10
Concept‐based language instruction and the teaching of citation in English academic writing10
Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Teachers: A Curricular Perspective10
Is evidence‐based L2 pedagogy achievable? The research–practice dialogue in grammar instruction10
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Functional Diversification and Progressive Routinization of a Multiword Expression in and for Social Interaction: A Longitudinal L2 Study9
Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones: Understanding and Integrating Social Justice in Chinese Language Class9
Intentional and Incidental Vocabulary Learning: The Role of Historical Linguistics in the Second Language Classroom9
Pedagogical processes and standard dialect use: Implications for creative multilingual interaction from a Yorùbá‐language classroom in southwestern Nigeria9
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Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 107, (Supplement 2023)9
Linguistic and Artistic Representations of Trauma: The Contribution of Pedagogies of Discomfort in Language Education9
From the Editor: In recognition and with appreciation9
Effects of written languaging on second language learning: Mediating roles of aptitude8
Exploring the lexical profile of advanced L2 writers: Longitudinal data from the Russian Overseas Flagship program8
Some considerations on the emotions of heritage language learners, teachers, and users8
L2 Classroom Input and L2 Positionally Sensitive Grammars: The Role of Information‐Seeking Question Sequences7
Congratulations to the NFMLTA/MLJ Award and Grant Recipients in 20217
Measuring Writing Development and Proficiency Gains Using Indices of Lexical and Syntactic Complexity: Evidence From Longitudinal Russian Learner Corpus Data7
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 106, 27
Twenty‐first century technologies and language education: Charting a path forward7
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Out‐of‐classroom L2 vocabulary acquisition: The effects of digital activities and school vocabulary7
Emotion labor, investment, and volunteer teachers in heritage language education6
Realities of comfort and discomfort in the heritage language classroom: Looking to transformative positive psychology for juggling a double‐edged sword6
NFMLTA grant programs6
Is English the Culprit? Longitudinal Associations Between Students’ Value Beliefs in English, German, and French in Multilingual Switzerland6
Towards a tempo‐spatial model of multilingual identity development: An exploration of the role of time and space in multilingual identity construction6
Diverse perspectives on second language learning and teaching (SLA/T) research in dialogue, co‐constructing common ground: A response6
Empowering preservice English teachers with language assessment literacy concepts and practices: Application of Vygotskian concept‐based language instruction6
Long‐term language use by US‐based study‐abroad alumni: Activity types and program effects6
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At the Intersection of SLA and Sociolinguistics: The Predictive Power of Social Networks During Study Abroad5
Erratum5
Fairness, Justice, and the Certification of Teaching Competence for International Teaching Assistants5
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 109, 25
Multilingualism and persistence in multiple language learning5
Congratulations to the NFMLTA/ MLJ Award and Grant Recipients5
Literature and second language vocabulary learning: The role of text type and teaching approach5
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Bilingual heritage language learning in China: Applying the Douglas Fir Group's transdisciplinary framework4
Between teacher candidates’ reflection and teacher educators’ evaluation: Fluctuations in epistemic (a)symmetry in feedback conversations4
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Monolingual and multilingual teacher candidates: A critical language‐related events analysis4
Gender‐justice beyond inclusion: How trans knowledges and linguistic practices can and should be re‐shaping language education4
Resumes and job postings as cognitive tools for narrating Anglophone language learners’ multilingual–professional identities and trajectories in career advising appointments4
Intergenerational autoethnography of heritage language maintenance: Focusing on emotion, identity, and power4
Emotions and the language‐ness of experience in heritage language lives3
Explanations for language choice in the social context of the L2 classroom3
Index to Volume 106, 20223
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Task complexity and L2 writing performance of young learners: Contributions of cognitive and affective factors3
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Modeling mediation in the dynamic assessment of listening ability from the cognitive diagnostic perspective3
Teacher Beliefs About Second Language Research and Researchers: Different Roles at Research‐Oriented Universities3
Language classrooms as communicative settings for learners’ development of sociolinguistic competence during study abroad3
Cultivating a new ecosystem in English language teaching: A focus on researchers in a textbook development project3
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Can Japanese learners of English comprehend inflectional and derivational forms in listening? Testing the validity of the word family counting unit3
Helping learners develop autonomy in acquiring multiword expressions3
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Learning Grammar for Social Action: Implications for Research and Language Teaching2
The Research–Practice Dialogue in Second Language Learning and Teaching: Past, Present, and Future2
Spoken word choreographies in additional language learning practices in upper secondary school: Entanglements between languaging‐and‐dancing2
Crisis! Commentary on “synergies” in second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T) and how the field may advance2
Exploring avenues of implementation for gender justice in French language teaching2
Undoing cislingualism2
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The correlates of flow in the L2 classroom: Linking basic L2 task features to learner flow experiences2
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“I dunno, as long as it proves my point”: A concept‐based approach to teaching citation and intertextuality to emerging writers2
From the Editor: In Recognition and With Appreciation2
Channeling Voices to Improve L2 English Intelligibility2
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Bringing the body into play: The corporeal aspect in second language acquisition2
Heritage identity and Indigenous language learning motivation: A case of Indigenous Taiwanese high school students2
The importance of seeking feedback for benefiting from feedback: A case of second language writing2
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Does spaced practice have the same effects on different second language vocabulary learning activities? Fill‐in‐the‐blanks versus flashcards1
The National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations (NFMLTA) announces next co‐editors of The Modern Language Journal (MLJ)1
Assessing spoken lexical and lexicogrammatical proficiency using features of word, bigram, and dependency bigram use1
Pedagogies of discomfort in the world language classroom: Ethical tensions and considerations for educators1
The impact of explicit instruction in intercultural competence in the world language classroom1
The political challenges of language policy: Top‐down and bottom‐up1
Introduction to the guest‐edited issue: Synergies in second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T)1
A translanguager's take on a synergy‐driven SLA/T1
Stories of struggle and resilience: Examining the experiences of two Spanish teachers through history in person1
Effectiveness of Yoruba proverbs in acquiring Yoruba language and culture1
The Hare and the Tortoise: The Race on the Course of L2 Learning1
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Bridging the Researcher–Practitioner Divide Through Community‐Engaged Action Research: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Exploration1
Equitable language allocation and program models in dual language bilingual education: From oversimplification to decision‐making processes at all scales1
Decolonial and antiracist teacher education practice: Challenges and alternatives1
An asymmetrical partnership: The shifting onus of Hmong heritage language teaching from families to dual‐language programs1
Diversity within unity1
Primary school children's conflicted emotions about using their heritage languages in multilingual classroom tasks1
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Theorizing agency from a complex dynamic systems theory perspective: Evidence from language learner narratives in online shadow education1
Withdrawn: Exploring the associations among task complexity, task motivation, task engagement, and linguistic complexity in L2 writing1
Call for papers in a special thematic collection of The Modern Language Journal1
An evaluation of a multidimensional identity measurement instrument: The heritage language speaker identity tool (HLS‐IT)1
The effect of the cognitive–emotional dialectic on L2 development: Enhancing our understanding of perezhivanie1
Individual differences in L1 attainment and language aptitude predict L2 achievement in instructed language learners1
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