Modern Language Journal

Papers
(The TQCC of Modern Language Journal is 7. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
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Notes from the Editor65
Assessing lexical proficiency in Russian as a second language using indices of lexical sophistication, diversity, and fluency46
From problem to right: Imaginative speculation on translanguaging in the world language classroom45
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On the matter of matter in second language education: A “mixed” review of current research31
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Triangulating learner corpus and online experimental data: Evidence from gender agreement and relative clauses in L2 Greek29
Global geopolitics, migration, and language education in the United States28
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, 228
Researcher‐Supported Professional Learning and Development for Instructors in Adult L2 Programs: Factors Leading to Ongoing Communities of Practice26
In it Together: Teachers, Researchers, and Classroom SLA25
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Visualizing Emergent Turn Construction: Seeing Writing While Speaking22
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 110 (Supplement 2026)22
Issue Information ‐ TOC21
Comprehensible to Whom? Examining Rater, Speaker, and Interlocutor Perspectives on Comprehensibility in an Interactive Context21
Give you some color: Chinese language teachers’ encounters of race and racialization in American K–12 schools21
Teachers’ multimodal resources for delegated peer repair: Maximizing interactional space in whole‐class interaction in the foreign language classroom20
Issue Information ‐ TOC20
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page19
The demographic landscape of Spanish language teaching research: A cross‐national study19
How Output Outweighs Input and Interlocutors Matter for Study‐Abroad SLA: Computational Social Network Analysis of Learner Interactions18
NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grants18
Issue Information ‐ Copyright Page18
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EDITORS’ NOTE17
A small lens on timescales and multimodality in classroom language learning emotions17
Developing advanced L2 German writing: A functionally oriented longitudinal study17
Brief but Mighty? Sustained L2 Learning and Perceived Psychobehavioral Benefits After Short‐Term Study Abroad17
Issue Information ‐ TOC16
Beyond Language: Reframing the Foreign Teaching Assistant Instruction Through Materiality Perspective16
Index to Volume 107, 202316
Relationality, interconnectedness, and identity: A process‐focused approach to second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T)16
Un strålande futuro needs mehr dan два langues—A bright future needs more than two languages115
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 108, (Supplement 2024)15
Introducing the special issue. Critical reflections on colonial pedagogies: Lessons learned for language teacher education15
NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grant15
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Task communicative function and oral fluency of L1 and L2 speakers14
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The canary in coal country: Educational policy, politics, and the dissolution of a language department13
Negotiating family language policy: Emotional experiences and playful language input in heritage language learning13
Exploring phonetic predictors of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and foreign accent in L2 Spanish speech13
Issue Information ‐ TOC13
Exploring Boundedness for Concept‐Based Instruction of Aspect: Evidence From Learning the Spanish Preterite and Imperfect13
Yalla Nutbikh “Let's cook”: Negotiating emotions of belonging through food in heritage language classrooms12
The role of individual learner differences in explicit language instruction12
Navigating the SLA/T conceptual landscape and investing in transdisciplinary practices11
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Decoding EFL learners’ internalization of English modal verbs in concept‐based language instruction: Integrating SCOBAs with languaging10
Memory and motivation in language revitalization practice10
Sociocultural theory and classroom second language learning in the East Asian context: Introduction to the special issue10
The effects of distributed versus massed corrective feedback on the acquisition of Spanish differential object marking10
Concept‐based language instruction and the teaching of citation in English academic writing10
Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Teachers: A Curricular Perspective10
Is evidence‐based L2 pedagogy achievable? The research–practice dialogue in grammar instruction10
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Functional Diversification and Progressive Routinization of a Multiword Expression in and for Social Interaction: A Longitudinal L2 Study9
Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones: Understanding and Integrating Social Justice in Chinese Language Class9
Intentional and Incidental Vocabulary Learning: The Role of Historical Linguistics in the Second Language Classroom9
Pedagogical processes and standard dialect use: Implications for creative multilingual interaction from a Yorùbá‐language classroom in southwestern Nigeria9
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Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 107, (Supplement 2023)9
Linguistic and Artistic Representations of Trauma: The Contribution of Pedagogies of Discomfort in Language Education9
From the Editor: In recognition and with appreciation9
Some considerations on the emotions of heritage language learners, teachers, and users8
Effects of written languaging on second language learning: Mediating roles of aptitude8
Exploring the lexical profile of advanced L2 writers: Longitudinal data from the Russian Overseas Flagship program8
Twenty‐first century technologies and language education: Charting a path forward7
THE ISSUE7
Out‐of‐classroom L2 vocabulary acquisition: The effects of digital activities and school vocabulary7
L2 Classroom Input and L2 Positionally Sensitive Grammars: The Role of Information‐Seeking Question Sequences7
Congratulations to the NFMLTA/MLJ Award and Grant Recipients in 20217
Measuring Writing Development and Proficiency Gains Using Indices of Lexical and Syntactic Complexity: Evidence From Longitudinal Russian Learner Corpus Data7
Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 106, 27
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