Modern Language Journal

Papers
(The H4-Index of Modern Language Journal is 22. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
175
Notes from the Editor69
57
Transnational literacy experiences and chronotopic identity work: A duoethnography of returnee English language teachers in China44
On the need of pluralism and common ground in SLA38
On the matter of matter in second language education: A “mixed” review of current research36
From problem to right: Imaginative speculation on translanguaging in the world language classroom35
Assessing lexical proficiency in Russian as a second language using indices of lexical sophistication, diversity, and fluency34
Triangulating learner corpus and online experimental data: Evidence from gender agreement and relative clauses in L2 Greek32
Developing L2 semantic knowledge of English modality through concept‐based language instruction: Do cognitive linguistics materials have an advantage?29
Research–Practice Partnerships: Shaping Next‐Generation Language Learning Research28
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, 227
27
Global geopolitics, migration, and language education in the United States25
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Comprehensible to Whom? Examining Rater, Speaker, and Interlocutor Perspectives on Comprehensibility in an Interactive Context24
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 110 (Supplement 2026)24
Researcher‐Supported Professional Learning and Development for Instructors in Adult L2 Programs: Factors Leading to Ongoing Communities of Practice24
Issue Information ‐ TOC23
In it Together: Teachers, Researchers, and Classroom SLA23
How Output Outweighs Input and Interlocutors Matter for Study‐Abroad SLA: Computational Social Network Analysis of Learner Interactions22
Advocating theoretical plurality and methodological flexibility toward humanistic synergy in SLA/T research: A response to Lantolf, Poehner, and Rieker (2025)22
Issue Information ‐ TOC22
Give you some color: Chinese language teachers’ encounters of race and racialization in American K–12 schools22
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