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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Notes from the Editor147
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Issue Information ‐ TOC72
Erratum51
Assessing lexical proficiency in Russian as a second language using indices of lexical sophistication, diversity, and fluency39
Triangulating learner corpus and online experimental data: Evidence from gender agreement and relative clauses in L2 Greek37
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, 230
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Visualizing Emergent Turn Construction: Seeing Writing While Speaking23
Researcher‐Supported Professional Learning and Development for Instructors in Adult L2 Programs: Factors Leading to Ongoing Communities of Practice23
Global geopolitics, migration, and language education in the United States21
In it Together: Teachers, Researchers, and Classroom SLA21
Comprehensible to Whom? Examining Rater, Speaker, and Interlocutor Perspectives on Comprehensibility in an Interactive Context20
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Teachers’ multimodal resources for delegated peer repair: Maximizing interactional space in whole‐class interaction in the foreign language classroom18
Give you some color: Chinese language teachers’ encounters of race and racialization in American K–12 schools18
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page17
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How Output Outweighs Input and Interlocutors Matter for Study‐Abroad SLA: Computational Social Network Analysis of Learner Interactions16
Relationality, interconnectedness, and identity: A process‐focused approach to second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T)15
Brief but Mighty? Sustained L2 Learning and Perceived Psychobehavioral Benefits After Short‐Term Study Abroad15
NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grants15
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page15
A small lens on timescales and multimodality in classroom language learning emotions15
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Developing advanced L2 German writing: A functionally oriented longitudinal study14
Index to Volume 107, 202314
The Effect of Auditory Input on Multimodal Reading Comprehension: An Examination of Adult Readers’ Eye Movements14
Beyond Language: Reframing the Foreign Teaching Assistant Instruction Through Materiality Perspective14
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Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, (Supplement 2024)13
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Un strålande futuro needs mehr dan два langues—A bright future needs more than two languages112
NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grant12
Digital Game‐Based Learning of Formulaic Expressions in Second Language Chinese12
The canary in coal country: Educational policy, politics, and the dissolution of a language department12
Task communicative function and oral fluency of L1 and L2 speakers11
Negotiating family language policy: Emotional experiences and playful language input in heritage language learning11
Exploring Boundedness for Concept‐Based Instruction of Aspect: Evidence From Learning the Spanish Preterite and Imperfect11
Learning and Teaching Pragmatics in the Globalized World: Introduction to the Special Issue11
Exploring phonetic predictors of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and foreign accent in L2 Spanish speech11
Learners’ Engagement in L2 Computer‐Mediated Interaction: Chat Mode, Interlocutor Familiarity, and Text Quality10
Yalla Nutbikh “Let's cook”: Negotiating emotions of belonging through food in heritage language classrooms10
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The role of individual learner differences in explicit language instruction10
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From the Editor: In Recognition and With Appreciation10
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Memory and motivation in language revitalization practice10
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Concept‐based language instruction and the teaching of citation in English academic writing9
The effects of distributed versus massed corrective feedback on the acquisition of Spanish differential object marking9
Navigating the SLA/T conceptual landscape and investing in transdisciplinary practices9
Issue Information ‐ TOC9
Sociocultural theory and classroom second language learning in the East Asian context: Introduction to the special issue8
Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Teachers: A Curricular Perspective8
Decoding EFL learners’ internalization of English modal verbs in concept‐based language instruction: Integrating SCOBAs with languaging8
Intentional and Incidental Vocabulary Learning: The Role of Historical Linguistics in the Second Language Classroom8
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Is evidence‐based L2 pedagogy achievable? The research–practice dialogue in grammar instruction8
The Effects of Textually Enhanced Captions on Written Elicited Imitation in L2 Grammar8
Pedagogical processes and standard dialect use: Implications for creative multilingual interaction from a Yorùbá‐language classroom in southwestern Nigeria7
Linguistic and Artistic Representations of Trauma: The Contribution of Pedagogies of Discomfort in Language Education7
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 107, (Supplement 2023)7
Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones: Understanding and Integrating Social Justice in Chinese Language Class7
Functional Diversification and Progressive Routinization of a Multiword Expression in and for Social Interaction: A Longitudinal L2 Study7
From the Editor: In recognition and with appreciation6
Out‐of‐classroom L2 vocabulary acquisition: The effects of digital activities and school vocabulary6
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Exploring the lexical profile of advanced L2 writers: Longitudinal data from the Russian Overseas Flagship program6
Some considerations on the emotions of heritage language learners, teachers, and users6
NFMLTA grant programs6
L2 Classroom Input and L2 Positionally Sensitive Grammars: The Role of Information‐Seeking Question Sequences6
Effects of written languaging on second language learning: Mediating roles of aptitude6
Twenty‐first century technologies and language education: Charting a path forward6
Measuring Writing Development and Proficiency Gains Using Indices of Lexical and Syntactic Complexity: Evidence From Longitudinal Russian Learner Corpus Data6
Realities of comfort and discomfort in the heritage language classroom: Looking to transformative positive psychology for juggling a double‐edged sword5
Empowering preservice English teachers with language assessment literacy concepts and practices: Application of Vygotskian concept‐based language instruction5
Congratulations to the NFMLTA/MLJ Award and Grant Recipients in 20215
Diverse perspectives on second language learning and teaching (SLA/T) research in dialogue, co‐constructing common ground: A response5
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 106, 25
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Is English the Culprit? Longitudinal Associations Between Students’ Value Beliefs in English, German, and French in Multilingual Switzerland5
Long‐term language use by US‐based study‐abroad alumni: Activity types and program effects5
Erratum5
Emotion labor, investment, and volunteer teachers in heritage language education5
Japanese Students’ Emotional Lived Experiences in English Language Learning, Learner Identities, and Their Transformation4
At the Intersection of SLA and Sociolinguistics: The Predictive Power of Social Networks During Study Abroad4
Explanations for language choice in the social context of the L2 classroom4
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Literature and second language vocabulary learning: The role of text type and teaching approach4
Localized Globalization: Directives in Augmented Reality Game Interaction4
Issue Information ‐ TOC4
Fairness, Justice, and the Certification of Teaching Competence for International Teaching Assistants4
A Meta‐Analysis of Hybrid Language Instruction and Call for Future Research4
Between teacher candidates’ reflection and teacher educators’ evaluation: Fluctuations in epistemic (a)symmetry in feedback conversations4
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 109, 24
Multilingualism and persistence in multiple language learning4
Resumes and job postings as cognitive tools for narrating Anglophone language learners’ multilingual–professional identities and trajectories in career advising appointments3
Bilingual heritage language learning in China: Applying the Douglas Fir Group's transdisciplinary framework3
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Cultivating a new ecosystem in English language teaching: A focus on researchers in a textbook development project3
Gender‐justice beyond inclusion: How trans knowledges and linguistic practices can and should be re‐shaping language education3
Academic Perseverance in Foreign Language Learning: An Investigation of Language‐Specific Grit and Its Conceptual Correlates3
Intergenerational autoethnography of heritage language maintenance: Focusing on emotion, identity, and power3
Task complexity and L2 writing performance of young learners: Contributions of cognitive and affective factors3
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Teacher Beliefs About Second Language Research and Researchers: Different Roles at Research‐Oriented Universities2
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Modeling mediation in the dynamic assessment of listening ability from the cognitive diagnostic perspective2
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Bringing the body into play: The corporeal aspect in second language acquisition2
Index to Volume 106, 20222
Helping learners develop autonomy in acquiring multiword expressions2
Heritage identity and Indigenous language learning motivation: A case of Indigenous Taiwanese high school students2
Language classrooms as communicative settings for learners’ development of sociolinguistic competence during study abroad2
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 106 (Supplement 2022)2
Emotions and the language‐ness of experience in heritage language lives2
Can Japanese learners of English comprehend inflectional and derivational forms in listening? Testing the validity of the word family counting unit2
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Diversity within unity1
An asymmetrical partnership: The shifting onus of Hmong heritage language teaching from families to dual‐language programs1
Effectiveness of Yoruba proverbs in acquiring Yoruba language and culture1
Channeling Voices to Improve L2 English Intelligibility1
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The importance of seeking feedback for benefiting from feedback: A case of second language writing1
Learning Grammar for Social Action: Implications for Research and Language Teaching1
The Hare and the Tortoise: The Race on the Course of L2 Learning1
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Individual differences in L1 attainment and language aptitude predict L2 achievement in instructed language learners1
Introduction to the guest‐edited issue: Synergies in second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T)1
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Primary school children's conflicted emotions about using their heritage languages in multilingual classroom tasks1
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Undoing cislingualism1
From the Editor: In Recognition and With Appreciation1
The correlates of flow in the L2 classroom: Linking basic L2 task features to learner flow experiences1
Issue Information ‐ TOC1
Assessing spoken lexical and lexicogrammatical proficiency using features of word, bigram, and dependency bigram use1
The effect of the cognitive–emotional dialectic on L2 development: Enhancing our understanding of perezhivanie1
Equitable language allocation and program models in dual language bilingual education: From oversimplification to decision‐making processes at all scales1
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
Exploring avenues of implementation for gender justice in French language teaching1
The Research–Practice Dialogue in Second Language Learning and Teaching: Past, Present, and Future1
Spoken word choreographies in additional language learning practices in upper secondary school: Entanglements between languaging‐and‐dancing1
From the Editor: In recognition and with appreciation1
Implementation of an Uncontrolled, Real‐World Task: Vocabulary Learning Opportunities and Students’ Perceptions1
Does spaced practice have the same effects on different second language vocabulary learning activities? Fill‐in‐the‐blanks versus flashcards1
An evaluation of a multidimensional identity measurement instrument: The heritage language speaker identity tool (HLS‐IT)1
Theorizing agency from a complex dynamic systems theory perspective: Evidence from language learner narratives in online shadow education1
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