Modern Language Journal

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Notes from the Editor	69
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Transnational literacy experiences and chronotopic identity work: A duoethnography of returnee English language teachers in China	44
On the need of pluralism and common ground in SLA	38
On the matter of matter in second language education: A “mixed” review of current research	36
From problem to right: Imaginative speculation on translanguaging in the world language classroom	35
Assessing lexical proficiency in Russian as a second language using indices of lexical sophistication, diversity, and fluency	34
Triangulating learner corpus and online experimental data: Evidence from gender agreement and relative clauses in L2 Greek	32
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 Research	28
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, 2	27
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Global geopolitics, migration, and language education in the United States	25
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 Practice	24
Comprehensible to Whom? Examining Rater, Speaker, and Interlocutor Perspectives on Comprehensibility in an Interactive Context	24
In it Together: Teachers, Researchers, and Classroom SLA	23
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Advocating theoretical plurality and methodological flexibility toward humanistic synergy in SLA/T research: A response to Lantolf, Poehner, and Rieker (2025)	22
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Give you some color: Chinese language teachers’ encounters of race and racialization in American K–12 schools	22
How Output Outweighs Input and Interlocutors Matter for Study‐Abroad SLA: Computational Social Network Analysis of Learner Interactions	22
The demographic landscape of Spanish language teaching research: A cross‐national study	21

Toward Culturally Sustaining Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL) Textbooks: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Linguistic, Cultural, and Racial Ideologies Across Earlier and Revised Editions	21
Teachers’ multimodal resources for delegated peer repair: Maximizing interactional space in whole‐class interaction in the foreign language classroom	21
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Developing advanced L2 German writing: A functionally oriented longitudinal study	19
A nuclear families word list for French	19
Reading versus listening: Which one is more effective for incidental vocabulary learning?	19
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A small lens on timescales and multimodality in classroom language learning emotions	19
EDITORS’ NOTE	19
Relationality, interconnectedness, and identity: A process‐focused approach to second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T)	18
Trans ‐ing in education to confront polarizing forces in our increasingly interconnected world	18
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, (Supplement 2024)	17
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Introducing the special issue. Critical reflections on colonial pedagogies: Lessons learned for language teacher education	16
Negotiating family language policy: Emotional experiences and playful language input in heritage language learning	16
NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grant	16
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Task communicative function and oral fluency of L1 and L2 speakers	16
Un strålande futuro needs mehr dan два langues—A bright future needs more than two languages1	16
Navigating Identity Tensions Through Perezhivanie: Language Teacher Metamotivation in Chinese Private Vocational Colleges	15
The canary in coal country: Educational policy, politics, and the dissolution of a language department	15
Index to Volume 107, 2023	15
Exploring phonetic predictors of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and foreign accent in L2 Spanish speech	15
The role of individual learner differences in explicit language instruction	14
Making all repertoires count: Re‐envisioning TBLT through critical multilingual language awareness	14
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Yalla Nutbikh “Let's cook”: Negotiating emotions of belonging through food in heritage language classrooms	14
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Navigating the SLA/T conceptual landscape and investing in transdisciplinary practices	12
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Memory and motivation in language revitalization practice	11
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The effects of distributed versus massed corrective feedback on the acquisition of Spanish differential object marking	11
The effect of multimodal input on L2 learners' reading comprehension: A preregistered eye‐tracking study	10
Concept‐based language instruction and the teaching of citation in English academic writing	10
Intentional and Incidental Vocabulary Learning: The Role of Historical Linguistics in the Second Language Classroom	10
Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Teachers: A Curricular Perspective	9
Multilingual education in unequal contexts: Structural barriers to making all repertoires count in the global south	9
Is evidence‐based L2 pedagogy achievable? The research–practice dialogue in grammar instruction	9
THE ISSUE: Re‐envisioning language education for a multilingual world	9
Decoding EFL learners’ internalization of English modal verbs in concept‐based language instruction: Integrating SCOBAs with languaging	9
Sociocultural theory and classroom second language learning in the East Asian context: Introduction to the special issue	8
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Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 107, (Supplement 2023)	8
Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones: Understanding and Integrating Social Justice in Chinese Language Class	8
Pedagogical processes and standard dialect use: Implications for creative multilingual interaction from a Yorùbá‐language classroom in southwestern Nigeria	7
From the Editor: In recognition and with appreciation	7
Effects of written languaging on second language learning: Mediating roles of aptitude	7

Crisis talk: Absolutism versus pluralism is SLA studies. A response to Lantolf, Poehner, and Rieker (2025)	7
Measuring Writing Development and Proficiency Gains Using Indices of Lexical and Syntactic Complexity: Evidence From Longitudinal Russian Learner Corpus Data	7
Some considerations on the emotions of heritage language learners, teachers, and users	7
Exploring the lexical profile of advanced L2 writers: Longitudinal data from the Russian Overseas Flagship program	7
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Out‐of‐classroom L2 vocabulary acquisition: The effects of digital activities and school vocabulary	7
Long‐term language use by US‐based study‐abroad alumni: Activity types and program effects	6
Diverse perspectives on second language learning and teaching (SLA/T) research in dialogue, co‐constructing common ground: A response	6
Beyond crisis narratives: Synergy and incommensurability in SLA theory	6
Twenty‐first century technologies and language education: Charting a path forward	6
NFMLTA grant programs	6
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Emotion labor, investment, and volunteer teachers in heritage language education	5
Towards a tempo‐spatial model of multilingual identity development: An exploration of the role of time and space in multilingual identity construction	5
Does Information About the Origins of Figurative Idioms Help Learners to Remember Them? A Multi‐Site Study	5
Congratulations to the NFMLTA/ MLJ Award and Grant Recipients	5
Empowering preservice English teachers with language assessment literacy concepts and practices: Application of Vygotskian concept‐based language instruction	5
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Multiword sequences do not predict speaking proficiency in dialogue: A pair‐level analysis	5
Multilingualism and persistence in multiple language learning	5
Realities of comfort and discomfort in the heritage language classroom: Looking to transformative positive psychology for juggling a double‐edged sword	5
Literature and second language vocabulary learning: The role of text type and teaching approach	4
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal , 109, 2	4
The role of institutions in language teacher educator well‐being: Unpacking the third pillar of positive psychology	4
Resumes and job postings as cognitive tools for narrating Anglophone language learners’ multilingual–professional identities and trajectories in career advising appointments	4
From Language Teachers to Mentors to Language Teacher Educators: Negotiating Personal Pedagogies, Power, and Mentorship Identity	4
Open Materials: Introducing a New Culture of Openness and Transparency	4
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Monolingual and multilingual teacher candidates: A critical language‐related events analysis	3
Drawing Chinese Characters as a Third Space Practice: Visual and Cultural Reinterpretations by French Secondary School Students in the Draw the Chinese Character!	3
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Teacher Beliefs About Second Language Research and Researchers: Different Roles at Research‐Oriented Universities	3
How pre‐service L2 English teachers use accounts to mitigate turn allocation to unwilling participants in microteaching	3
Task complexity and L2 writing performance of young learners: Contributions of cognitive and affective factors	3
Intergenerational autoethnography of heritage language maintenance: Focusing on emotion, identity, and power	3
Gender‐justice beyond inclusion: How trans knowledges and linguistic practices can and should be re‐shaping language education	3
Explanations for language choice in the social context of the L2 classroom	3
Emotions and the language‐ness of experience in heritage language lives	3
Index to Volume 106, 2022	3
“This is the Work I'm Most Proud of”: K‐Pop Fandom and Children's Multilingual Literacy Practices	3
Interleaved Practice in L2 Grammar Learning: Variation Across Grammatical Patterns and Cue Reliability	3
Bilingual heritage language learning in China: Applying the Douglas Fir Group's transdisciplinary framework	3
Cultivating a new ecosystem in English language teaching: A focus on researchers in a textbook development project	3
Between teacher candidates’ reflection and teacher educators’ evaluation: Fluctuations in epistemic (a)symmetry in feedback conversations	3
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Modeling mediation in the dynamic assessment of listening ability from the cognitive diagnostic perspective	3
Helping learners develop autonomy in acquiring multiword expressions	3
Can Japanese learners of English comprehend inflectional and derivational forms in listening? Testing the validity of the word family counting unit	3
“I dunno, as long as it proves my point”: A concept‐based approach to teaching citation and intertextuality to emerging writers	2
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Bringing the body into play: The corporeal aspect in second language acquisition	2
The correlates of flow in the L2 classroom: Linking basic L2 task features to learner flow experiences	2
EDITORS’ NOTE	2
Crisis! Commentary on “synergies” in second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T) and how the field may advance	2
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Spoken word choreographies in additional language learning practices in upper secondary school: Entanglements between languaging‐and‐dancing	2
From the Editor: In recognition and with appreciation	2
From the Editor: In Recognition and With Appreciation	2
Undoing cislingualism	2
Language classrooms as communicative settings for learners’ development of sociolinguistic competence during study abroad	2
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The importance of seeking feedback for benefiting from feedback: A case of second language writing	2
Defining “positive institution”: A multilevel analysis of support systems for foreign language engagement across family, classroom, school, and society	2
Heritage identity and Indigenous language learning motivation: A case of Indigenous Taiwanese high school students	2
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The political challenges of language policy: Top‐down and bottom‐up	1
Decolonial and antiracist teacher education practice: Challenges and alternatives	1
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Bridging the Researcher–Practitioner Divide Through Community‐Engaged Action Research: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Exploration	1
The effect of the cognitive–emotional dialectic on L2 development: Enhancing our understanding of perezhivanie	1
Primary school children's conflicted emotions about using their heritage languages in multilingual classroom tasks	1
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Exploring avenues of implementation for gender justice in French language teaching	1
Introduction to the guest‐edited issue: Synergies in second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T)	1
Maternal wellbeing amidst English fever: An integrative framework of vicarious pride, empathy, agency and hope (M–VEAH)	1
Individual differences in L1 attainment and language aptitude predict L2 achievement in instructed language learners	1

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Diversity within unity	1
Effects of Learning Context and Program Length on L2 Skill Development	1
Pedagogies of discomfort in the world language classroom: Ethical tensions and considerations for educators	1
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Call for papers in a special thematic collection of The Modern Language Journal	1
Translanguaging silence and humor: Registering, resisting, and reconstructing identities in an English‐medium classroom in the United States	1
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The Research–Practice Dialogue in Second Language Learning and Teaching: Past, Present, and Future	1
Theorizing agency from a complex dynamic systems theory perspective: Evidence from language learner narratives in online shadow education	1
Does spaced practice have the same effects on different second language vocabulary learning activities? Fill‐in‐the‐blanks versus flashcards	1
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An asymmetrical partnership: The shifting onus of Hmong heritage language teaching from families to dual‐language programs	1
Withdrawn: Exploring the associations among task complexity, task motivation, task engagement, and linguistic complexity in L2 writing	1
From obligation to opportunity: Language coaching as a positive institutional strategy in a public body	1
Assessing spoken lexical and lexicogrammatical proficiency using features of word, bigram, and dependency bigram use	1
The impact of explicit instruction in intercultural competence in the world language classroom	1
Equitable language allocation and program models in dual language bilingual education: From oversimplification to decision‐making processes at all scales	1
An evaluation of a multidimensional identity measurement instrument: The heritage language speaker identity tool (HLS‐IT)	1
Effectiveness of Yoruba proverbs in acquiring Yoruba language and culture	1
Transparency in (Quasi‐)Experimental L2 Research: A Systematic Review of Applied Linguistics Journals in China	1
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Channeling Voices to Improve L2 English Intelligibility	1
Stories of struggle and resilience: Examining the experiences of two Spanish teachers through history in person	1
The National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations (NFMLTA) announces next co‐editors of The Modern Language Journal (MLJ)	1
The Hare and the Tortoise: The Race on the Course of L2 Learning	1
Conquistador–settler grammars: Borders and boundaries of the colonial geographies of language	1
A translanguager's take on a synergy‐driven SLA/T	1