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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Notes from the Editor159
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Issue Information ‐ TOC78
Erratum57
Assessing lexical proficiency in Russian as a second language using indices of lexical sophistication, diversity, and fluency41
From problem to right: Imaginative speculation on translanguaging in the world language classroom41
Triangulating learner corpus and online experimental data: Evidence from gender agreement and relative clauses in L2 Greek30
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, 228
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In it Together: Teachers, Researchers, and Classroom SLA24
Comprehensible to Whom? Examining Rater, Speaker, and Interlocutor Perspectives on Comprehensibility in an Interactive Context22
Visualizing Emergent Turn Construction: Seeing Writing While Speaking21
Researcher‐Supported Professional Learning and Development for Instructors in Adult L2 Programs: Factors Leading to Ongoing Communities of Practice20
Issue Information ‐ TOC20
Global geopolitics, migration, and language education in the United States20
Give you some color: Chinese language teachers’ encounters of race and racialization in American K–12 schools19
Teachers’ multimodal resources for delegated peer repair: Maximizing interactional space in whole‐class interaction in the foreign language classroom18
Issue Information ‐ TOC18
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Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page17
How Output Outweighs Input and Interlocutors Matter for Study‐Abroad SLA: Computational Social Network Analysis of Learner Interactions17
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Brief but Mighty? Sustained L2 Learning and Perceived Psychobehavioral Benefits After Short‐Term Study Abroad16
NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grants16
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page15
Developing advanced L2 German writing: A functionally oriented longitudinal study15
Relationality, interconnectedness, and identity: A process‐focused approach to second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T)15
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page15
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, (Supplement 2024)14
A small lens on timescales and multimodality in classroom language learning emotions14
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
NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grant13
The canary in coal country: Educational policy, politics, and the dissolution of a language department13
Introducing the special issue. Critical reflections on colonial pedagogies: Lessons learned for language teacher education13
Un strålande futuro needs mehr dan два langues—A bright future needs more than two languages113
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Task communicative function and oral fluency of L1 and L2 speakers13
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Yalla Nutbikh “Let's cook”: Negotiating emotions of belonging through food in heritage language classrooms11
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Exploring phonetic predictors of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and foreign accent in L2 Spanish speech11
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Learners’ Engagement in L2 Computer‐Mediated Interaction: Chat Mode, Interlocutor Familiarity, and Text Quality11
Exploring Boundedness for Concept‐Based Instruction of Aspect: Evidence From Learning the Spanish Preterite and Imperfect11
The role of individual learner differences in explicit language instruction11
From the Editor: In Recognition and With Appreciation11
Negotiating family language policy: Emotional experiences and playful language input in heritage language learning11
Intentional and Incidental Vocabulary Learning: The Role of Historical Linguistics in the Second Language Classroom10
Navigating the SLA/T conceptual landscape and investing in transdisciplinary practices10
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Concept‐based language instruction and the teaching of citation in English academic writing10
Issue Information ‐ TOC10
The effects of distributed versus massed corrective feedback on the acquisition of Spanish differential object marking9
Decoding EFL learners’ internalization of English modal verbs in concept‐based language instruction: Integrating SCOBAs with languaging9
The Effects of Textually Enhanced Captions on Written Elicited Imitation in L2 Grammar9
Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones: Understanding and Integrating Social Justice in Chinese Language Class8
Sociocultural theory and classroom second language learning in the East Asian context: Introduction to the special issue8
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 107, (Supplement 2023)8
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Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Teachers: A Curricular Perspective8
Functional Diversification and Progressive Routinization of a Multiword Expression in and for Social Interaction: A Longitudinal L2 Study8
Is evidence‐based L2 pedagogy achievable? The research–practice dialogue in grammar instruction8
Memory and motivation in language revitalization practice8
Pedagogical processes and standard dialect use: Implications for creative multilingual interaction from a Yorùbá‐language classroom in southwestern Nigeria8
L2 Classroom Input and L2 Positionally Sensitive Grammars: The Role of Information‐Seeking Question Sequences7
Measuring Writing Development and Proficiency Gains Using Indices of Lexical and Syntactic Complexity: Evidence From Longitudinal Russian Learner Corpus Data7
Linguistic and Artistic Representations of Trauma: The Contribution of Pedagogies of Discomfort in Language Education7
Some considerations on the emotions of heritage language learners, teachers, and users7
Exploring the lexical profile of advanced L2 writers: Longitudinal data from the Russian Overseas Flagship program7
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Effects of written languaging on second language learning: Mediating roles of aptitude7
From the Editor: In recognition and with appreciation6
THE ISSUE6
Diverse perspectives on second language learning and teaching (SLA/T) research in dialogue, co‐constructing common ground: A response6
Twenty‐first century technologies and language education: Charting a path forward6
Congratulations to the NFMLTA/MLJ Award and Grant Recipients in 20216
Out‐of‐classroom L2 vocabulary acquisition: The effects of digital activities and school vocabulary6
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page5
Empowering preservice English teachers with language assessment literacy concepts and practices: Application of Vygotskian concept‐based language instruction5
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 106, 25
Is English the Culprit? Longitudinal Associations Between Students’ Value Beliefs in English, German, and French in Multilingual Switzerland5
NFMLTA grant programs5
Realities of comfort and discomfort in the heritage language classroom: Looking to transformative positive psychology for juggling a double‐edged sword5
Emotion labor, investment, and volunteer teachers in heritage language education5
Long‐term language use by US‐based study‐abroad alumni: Activity types and program effects5
Erratum4
Fairness, Justice, and the Certification of Teaching Competence for International Teaching Assistants4
Japanese Students’ Emotional Lived Experiences in English Language Learning, Learner Identities, and Their Transformation4
Literature and second language vocabulary learning: The role of text type and teaching approach4
Multilingualism and persistence in multiple language learning4
At the Intersection of SLA and Sociolinguistics: The Predictive Power of Social Networks During Study Abroad4
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 109, 24
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A Meta‐Analysis of Hybrid Language Instruction and Call for Future Research4
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Gender‐justice beyond inclusion: How trans knowledges and linguistic practices can and should be re‐shaping language education3
Between teacher candidates’ reflection and teacher educators’ evaluation: Fluctuations in epistemic (a)symmetry in feedback conversations3
Intergenerational autoethnography of heritage language maintenance: Focusing on emotion, identity, and power3
Index to Volume 106, 20223
Bilingual heritage language learning in China: Applying the Douglas Fir Group's transdisciplinary framework3
Monolingual and multilingual teacher candidates: A critical language‐related events analysis3
Explanations for language choice in the social context of the L2 classroom3
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Teacher Beliefs About Second Language Research and Researchers: Different Roles at Research‐Oriented Universities3
Resumes and job postings as cognitive tools for narrating Anglophone language learners’ multilingual–professional identities and trajectories in career advising appointments3
Task complexity and L2 writing performance of young learners: Contributions of cognitive and affective factors3
Cultivating a new ecosystem in English language teaching: A focus on researchers in a textbook development project3
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Academic Perseverance in Foreign Language Learning: An Investigation of Language‐Specific Grit and Its Conceptual Correlates3
The importance of seeking feedback for benefiting from feedback: A case of second language writing2
From the Editor: In recognition and with appreciation2
Can Japanese learners of English comprehend inflectional and derivational forms in listening? Testing the validity of the word family counting unit2
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 106 (Supplement 2022)2
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Spoken word choreographies in additional language learning practices in upper secondary school: Entanglements between languaging‐and‐dancing2
The correlates of flow in the L2 classroom: Linking basic L2 task features to learner flow experiences2
Helping learners develop autonomy in acquiring multiword expressions2
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Language classrooms as communicative settings for learners’ development of sociolinguistic competence during study abroad2
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Heritage identity and Indigenous language learning motivation: A case of Indigenous Taiwanese high school students2
Emotions and the language‐ness of experience in heritage language lives2
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
Learning Grammar for Social Action: Implications for Research and Language Teaching1
A translanguager's take on a synergy‐driven SLA/T1
Equitable language allocation and program models in dual language bilingual education: From oversimplification to decision‐making processes at all scales1
The political challenges of language policy: Top‐down and bottom‐up1
Assessing spoken lexical and lexicogrammatical proficiency using features of word, bigram, and dependency bigram use1
An asymmetrical partnership: The shifting onus of Hmong heritage language teaching from families to dual‐language programs1
Bridging the Researcher–Practitioner Divide Through Community‐Engaged Action Research: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Exploration1
Issue Information ‐ TOC1
Implementation of an Uncontrolled, Real‐World Task: Vocabulary Learning Opportunities and Students’ Perceptions1
From the Editor: In Recognition and With Appreciation1
Exploring avenues of implementation for gender justice in French language teaching1
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page1
Does spaced practice have the same effects on different second language vocabulary learning activities? Fill‐in‐the‐blanks versus flashcards1
Decolonial and antiracist teacher education practice: Challenges and alternatives1
The National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations (NFMLTA) announces next co‐editors of The Modern Language Journal (MLJ)1
Introduction to the guest‐edited issue: Synergies in second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T)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
Stories of struggle and resilience: Examining the experiences of two Spanish teachers through history in person1
Primary school children's conflicted emotions about using their heritage languages in multilingual classroom tasks1
The Research–Practice Dialogue in Second Language Learning and Teaching: Past, Present, and Future1
Undoing cislingualism1
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Diversity within unity1
The impact of explicit instruction in intercultural competence in the world language classroom1
Pedagogies of discomfort in the world language classroom: Ethical tensions and considerations for educators1
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Theorizing agency from a complex dynamic systems theory perspective: Evidence from language learner narratives in online shadow education1
The Hare and the Tortoise: The Race on the Course of L2 Learning1
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Effectiveness of Yoruba proverbs in acquiring Yoruba language and culture1
Channeling Voices to Improve L2 English Intelligibility1
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