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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Notes from the Editor127
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Issue Information ‐ TOC66
Erratum57
Rethinking Mobility and Language: From the Global South47
Triangulating learner corpus and online experimental data: Evidence from gender agreement and relative clauses in L2 Greek34
Toward Cognitive and Temporal Mobility: Language Considerations in Refugee Education32
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, 229
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Visualizing Emergent Turn Construction: Seeing Writing While Speaking27
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Comprehensible to Whom? Examining Rater, Speaker, and Interlocutor Perspectives on Comprehensibility in an Interactive Context22
In it Together: Teachers, Researchers, and Classroom SLA22
Researcher‐Supported Professional Learning and Development for Instructors in Adult L2 Programs: Factors Leading to Ongoing Communities of Practice19
Give you some color: Chinese language teachers’ encounters of race and racialization in American K–12 schools18
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Teachers’ multimodal resources for delegated peer repair: Maximizing interactional space in whole‐class interaction in the foreign language classroom18
How Output Outweighs Input and Interlocutors Matter for Study‐Abroad SLA: Computational Social Network Analysis of Learner Interactions18
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Developing advanced L2 German writing: A functionally oriented longitudinal study16
Implementing the Seal of Biliteracy: A Multiple Case Study of Six High‐Awarding Districts16
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The Effect of Auditory Input on Multimodal Reading Comprehension: An Examination of Adult Readers’ Eye Movements15
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A small lens on timescales and multimodality in classroom language learning emotions14
NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grants14
Relationality, interconnectedness, and identity: A process‐focused approach to second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T)13
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Brief but Mighty? Sustained L2 Learning and Perceived Psychobehavioral Benefits After Short‐Term Study Abroad13
Forthcoming in Modern Language Journal, 105, 313
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Beyond Language: Reframing the Foreign Teaching Assistant Instruction Through Materiality Perspective12
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, (Supplement 2024)12
Task communicative function and oral fluency of L1 and L2 speakers12
Index to Volume 107, 202312
Exploring Boundedness for Concept‐Based Instruction of Aspect: Evidence From Learning the Spanish Preterite and Imperfect11
Exploring phonetic predictors of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and foreign accent in L2 Spanish speech11
Forced (Im)Mobilities at the Nexus of Race and Language in Pandemic Times11
Digital Game‐Based Learning of Formulaic Expressions in Second Language Chinese10
Emergency Remote Language Teaching and U.S.‐Based College‐Level World Language Educators’ Intention to Adopt Online Teaching in Postpandemic Times10
Negotiating family language policy: Emotional experiences and playful language input in heritage language learning10
NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grant10
Learning and Teaching Pragmatics in the Globalized World: Introduction to the Special Issue10
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Issue Information ‐ TOC9
From the Editor: In Recognition and With Appreciation9
The role of individual learner differences in explicit language instruction9
Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Teachers: A Curricular Perspective8
Learners’ Engagement in L2 Computer‐Mediated Interaction: Chat Mode, Interlocutor Familiarity, and Text Quality8
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The effects of distributed versus massed corrective feedback on the acquisition of Spanish differential object marking8
Yalla Nutbikh “Let's cook”: Negotiating emotions of belonging through food in heritage language classrooms8
Intentional and Incidental Vocabulary Learning: The Role of Historical Linguistics in the Second Language Classroom7
Navigating the SLA/T conceptual landscape and investing in transdisciplinary practices7
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Concept‐based language instruction and the teaching of citation in English academic writing7
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Memory and motivation in language revitalization practice7
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Sociocultural theory and classroom second language learning in the East Asian context: Introduction to the special issue6
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Functional Diversification and Progressive Routinization of a Multiword Expression in and for Social Interaction: A Longitudinal L2 Study6
Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones: Understanding and Integrating Social Justice in Chinese Language Class6
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Is evidence‐based L2 pedagogy achievable? The research–practice dialogue in grammar instruction6
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 107, (Supplement 2023)6
Linguistic and Artistic Representations of Trauma: The Contribution of Pedagogies of Discomfort in Language Education6
Exploring the lexical profile of advanced L2 writers: Longitudinal data from the Russian Overseas Flagship program6
Decoding EFL learners’ internalization of English modal verbs in concept‐based language instruction: Integrating SCOBAs with languaging6
The Effects of Textually Enhanced Captions on Written Elicited Imitation in L2 Grammar6
Pedagogical processes and standard dialect use: Implications for creative multilingual interaction from a Yorùbá‐language classroom in southwestern Nigeria6
THE ISSUE6
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NFMLTA grant programs5
Long‐term language use by US‐based study‐abroad alumni: Activity types and program effects5
Some considerations on the emotions of heritage language learners, teachers, and users5
L2 Classroom Input and L2 Positionally Sensitive Grammars: The Role of Information‐Seeking Question Sequences5
Out‐of‐classroom L2 vocabulary acquisition: The effects of digital activities and school vocabulary5
Measuring Writing Development and Proficiency Gains Using Indices of Lexical and Syntactic Complexity: Evidence From Longitudinal Russian Learner Corpus Data5
Effects of written languaging on second language learning: Mediating roles of aptitude5
From the Editor: In recognition and with appreciation5
Twenty‐first century technologies and language education: Charting a path forward5
Emotion labor, investment, and volunteer teachers in heritage language education4
Erratum4
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Congratulations to the NFMLTA/MLJ Award and Grant Recipients in 20214
Diverse perspectives on second language learning and teaching (SLA/T) research in dialogue, co‐constructing common ground: A response4
Multilingualism and persistence in multiple language learning4
Empowering preservice English teachers with language assessment literacy concepts and practices: Application of Vygotskian concept‐based language instruction4
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 106, 24
Is English the Culprit? Longitudinal Associations Between Students’ Value Beliefs in English, German, and French in Multilingual Switzerland4
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An Interview With Suresh Canagarajah4
Realities of comfort and discomfort in the heritage language classroom: Looking to transformative positive psychology for juggling a double‐edged sword4
Japanese Students’ Emotional Lived Experiences in English Language Learning, Learner Identities, and Their Transformation3
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 109, 23
Gender‐justice beyond inclusion: How trans knowledges and linguistic practices can and should be re‐shaping language education3
Explanations for language choice in the social context of the L2 classroom3
Fairness, Justice, and the Certification of Teaching Competence for International Teaching Assistants3
At the Intersection of SLA and Sociolinguistics: The Predictive Power of Social Networks During Study Abroad3
A Meta‐Analysis of Hybrid Language Instruction and Call for Future Research3
Resumes and job postings as cognitive tools for narrating Anglophone language learners’ multilingual–professional identities and trajectories in career advising appointments3
Literature and second language vocabulary learning: The role of text type and teaching approach3
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Bilingual heritage language learning in China: Applying the Douglas Fir Group's transdisciplinary framework3
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Intergenerational autoethnography of heritage language maintenance: Focusing on emotion, identity, and power2
Localized Globalization: Directives in Augmented Reality Game Interaction2
Academic Perseverance in Foreign Language Learning: An Investigation of Language‐Specific Grit and Its Conceptual Correlates2
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Emotions and the language‐ness of experience in heritage language lives2
Task complexity and L2 writing performance of young learners: Contributions of cognitive and affective factors2
Between teacher candidates’ reflection and teacher educators’ evaluation: Fluctuations in epistemic (a)symmetry in feedback conversations2
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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Cultivating a new ecosystem in English language teaching: A focus on researchers in a textbook development project2
The Mobility of Ideologies in Language Teacher Education2
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Teacher Beliefs About Second Language Research and Researchers: Different Roles at Research‐Oriented Universities2
Index to Volume 106, 20222
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Language classrooms as communicative settings for learners’ development of sociolinguistic competence during study abroad1
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Heritage identity and Indigenous language learning motivation: A case of Indigenous Taiwanese high school students1
The importance of seeking feedback for benefiting from feedback: A case of second language writing1
Effectiveness of Yoruba proverbs in acquiring Yoruba language and culture1
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Exploring avenues of implementation for gender justice in French language teaching1
Channeling Voices to Improve L2 English Intelligibility1
Spoken word choreographies in additional language learning practices in upper secondary school: Entanglements between languaging‐and‐dancing1
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Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 106 (Supplement 2022)1
Modeling mediation in the dynamic assessment of listening ability from the cognitive diagnostic perspective1
Undoing cislingualism1
From the Editor: In recognition and with appreciation1
The Research–Practice Dialogue in Second Language Learning and Teaching: Past, Present, and Future1
Learning Grammar for Social Action: Implications for Research and Language Teaching1
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The correlates of flow in the L2 classroom: Linking basic L2 task features to learner flow experiences1
Helping learners develop autonomy in acquiring multiword expressions1
Bringing the body into play: The corporeal aspect in second language acquisition1
From the Editor: In Recognition and With Appreciation1
Primary school children's conflicted emotions about using their heritage languages in multilingual classroom tasks1
Implementation of an Uncontrolled, Real‐World Task: Vocabulary Learning Opportunities and Students’ Perceptions1
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Unfolding language awareness in a plurilingual context: A study of metalinguistic, practical, and critical language awareness0
Building a community‐centered archive for Cherokee language description, documentation, and reclamation0
Trans theory: Complexifying positionality, complexifying representation0
Improving self‐regulated learning of speaking skills in foreign languages0
Second Language Speech Intelligibility Revisited: Differential Roles of Phonological Accuracy, Visual Speech, and Iconic Gesture0
Theorizing agency from a complex dynamic systems theory perspective: Evidence from language learner narratives in online shadow education0
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May I See Your Credentials, Please? Displays of Pedagogical Expertise by Language Teaching Researchers0
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An asymmetrical partnership: The shifting onus of Hmong heritage language teaching from families to dual‐language programs0
English learners’ beliefs about L2 speaking fluency: Insights from elicited metaphor analysis0
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Open generative AI changes a lot, but not everything0
Stories of struggle and resilience: Examining the experiences of two Spanish teachers through history in person0
Navigating complexity: A critical perspective on language assessment in SLA/T0
The pursuit of a gender‐just language classroom0
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 106, 30
Social virtual reality for L2 Spanish development: Learning how to interact with others in a high‐immersion virtual space0
Visual Context Modulates L2 Long‐Term Structural Priming for the Chinese Ba Construction0
Bridging the Researcher–Practitioner Divide Through Community‐Engaged Action Research: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Exploration0
Translingual caring and translingual aggression: (Re)centering criticality in the research and practice of translanguaging pedagogy0
Sociolinguistic competence and varietal repertoires in a second language: A study on addressee‐dependent varietal behavior using virtual reality0
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 109, 30
(Re)constructing and (re)negotiating identities: A case study of postsecondary language teachers and social justice education0
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Has artificial intelligence rendered language teaching obsolete?0
The “Foreign TA Problem” as a Demand for Aesthetic Labor0
Assessing spoken lexical and lexicogrammatical proficiency using features of word, bigram, and dependency bigram use0
NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grant0
Understanding the factors supporting language teachers’ sustained motivation until retirement0
Withdrawn: Exploring the associations among task complexity, task motivation, task engagement, and linguistic complexity in L2 writing0
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Use of word lists in a high‐stakes, low‐exposure context: Topic‐driven or frequency‐informed0
Combinations and Connections: Reaching Across Disciplinary Boundaries0
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Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 109 (Supplement 2025)0
The Development and Validation of the Short Form of the Foreign Language Enjoyment Scale0
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Forging common ground in second language acquisition and teaching: A combined synergy statement0
The Relationship Between Utterance and Perceived Fluency: A Meta‐Analysis of Correlational Studies0
Introduction to the guest‐edited issue: Synergies in second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T)0
Global perspectives on heritage language education and emotion: Introduction to the special issue0
Navigating competing goals for language in curricularized school settings: Lessons from teachers of multilingual students0
First and second language use in an early total one‐way Chinese immersion classroom0
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Conceptualizing identity construction in language teacher education0
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Diversity within unity0
Language, people, classrooms, world: Blending disparate theories for united language education practices0
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An appraisal‐based examination of language teacher emotions in anxiety‐provoking classroom situations using vignette methodology0
Effects of Plurilingual Teaching on Grammatical Development in Early Foreign‐Language Learning0
The Efficacy of Incidental Attention to Formulaic and Nonformulaic Forms in Focus on Form0
Proficiency and Preference Organization in Second Language Mandarin Chinese Refusals0
Charting the development of second language proficiency and intercultural competence in postsecondary education0
Increasing meta‐analytic quality: A multivariate multilevel meta‐analysis of note‐taking through exposure to L2 input0
Withdrawal0
Notes From the Editor0
Learning and Teaching Pragmatics in the Globalized World: Commentary0
Emergent L2 Grammars in and for Social Interaction: Introduction to the Special Issue0
Erratum0
Praxeology, humanism, equity, and mixed methods: Four pillars for advancing second language acquisition and teaching0
Academic word difficulty and multidimensional lexical sophistication: An English‐for‐academic‐purposes‐focused conceptual replication of Hashimoto and Egbert (2019)0
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Schrödinger's turn: An interactional examination of willingness to communicate and talk in codependent and competitive group talk0
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The future of language learning teaching in a technology‐mediated 21st century0
Index to Volume 108, 20240
Does spaced practice have the same effects on different second language vocabulary learning activities? Fill‐in‐the‐blanks versus flashcards0
Nurturing Teachers’ Research Mindset in an Inquiry‐Based Language Teacher Education Course0
Misconduct and Questionable Research Practices: The Ethics of Quantitative Data Handling and Reporting in Applied Linguistics0
The impact of explicit instruction in intercultural competence in the world language classroom0
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 107, 20
A psycholinguistic perspective on SLA/T0
Call for applications for the editorship of The Modern Language Journal0
A translanguager's take on a synergy‐driven SLA/T0
The effectiveness of cognitive linguistics‐inspired language pedagogies: A systematic review0
Sign language for all? Profile and retention of students in a beginner sign language program0
International Teaching Assistants Offer More Than Their English Accents: A Response to “The ‘Foreign TA Problem’ Forty Years On”0
The Hare and the Tortoise: The Race on the Course of L2 Learning0
The processing of multiword expressions in L1 and L2 Chinese: Evidence from reaction times and eye movements0
L2 grammar‐for‐interaction: Functions of “and”‐prefaced turns in L2 students’ collaborative talk0
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Retention and Attrition in Early‐Career Foreign Language Teachers in Austria and the United Kingdom0
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Accumulating Semiotic Resources for Social Actions: A Case Study of L2 Icelandic in the Wild0
Promoting young EFL learners’ listening potential: A model of mediation in the framework of dynamic assessment0
The Relationship Between Lexical Coverage and Type of Reading Comprehension in Beginning L2 Spanish Learners0
The Relative Contribution of Language Complexity to Second Language Video Lectures Difficulty Assessment0
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Reframing “the Foreign TA Problem” as “the American Listener Problem”0
Synergies extended0
Noun‐Phrase Complexity Measures in Chinese and Their Relationship to L2 Chinese Writing Quality: A Comparison with Topic–Comment‐Unit‐Based Measures0
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
Using multimodal language learning histories to understand learning experiences and beliefs of second language learners in Japan0
Emotions and emotion regulation in L2 classroom speaking tasks: A mixed‐methods study combining the idiodynamic and quantitative perspectives0
Generative artificial intelligence, co‐evolution, and language education0
Scaffolding comprehension with reading while listening and the role of reading speed and text complexity0
Bridging the Gap Between Willingness to Communicate and Learner Talk0
“I Preferred to Take Another Activity From the Textbook”: An Activity–Theoretical Study of Learning to Design Language Teaching Materials0
Discursive Enactment of Agency in Study‐Abroad Interviews0
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