The Modern Language Journal

Published on behalf of the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations

Edited by:
Leo van Lier

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 25/55 Linguistics
Impact Factor: 0.793

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A refereed publication, The Modern Language Journal is dedicated to promoting scholarly exchange among teachers and researchers of all modern foreign languages and English as a second language. This journal publishes documented essays, quantitative and qualitative research studies, response articles, and editorials that challenge paradigms of language learning and teaching. The Modern Language Journal offers a professional calendar of events and news, a listing of relevant articles in other journals, an annual survey of doctoral degrees in all areas concerning foreign and second languages, and reviews of scholarly books, textbooks, videotapes, and software.

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TopHighlights

General Articles:
Learning Language under Tension:  New Directions from a Qualitative Study.
Guy Spielmann &  Mary L. Radnofsky

Is It Fun?  Language Play in a Fifth-Grade Spanish Immersion Classroom.
Maggie A. Broner & Elaine E. Tarone

Subject-Matter Content:  How Does It Assist the Interactional and Linguistic Needs of Classroom Language Learners?
Teresa Pica

Decision Making while Rating ESL/EFL Writing Tasks:  A Descriptive Framework.
Alister Cumming, Robert Kantor, & Donald E. Powers

Interactional Context and Feedback in Child ESL Classrooms
Rhonda Oliver & Alison Mackey

Toward a Sociocognitive Approach to Second Language Acquisition
Dwight Atkinson

The Role of Reflective Conversations and Feedback in Helping Preservice Teachers Learn to Use Cooperative Activities in Their Second Language Classrooms.
Caroline Gwyn-Paquette & François Victor Tochon

Evaluative Criteria for Qualitative Research in Applied Linguistics: Whose Criteria and Whose Research?
Anne Lazaraton

A Study of Flow Theory in the Foreign Language Classroom
Joy Egbert

Factors Affecting How Second Language Spanish Students Derive Meaning from Context
Diana Frantzen

The Stability of General Foreign Language Classroom Anciety across English and French
Máximo Rodríguez & Orángel Abreu

The Effect of Synchronous and Asynchronous CMC on Oral Performance in German
Zsuzanna Ittzes Abrams

The Roles of Context and Word Morphology in Learning Kanji Words
Yoshiko Mori

Perspectives:

Language Curricula in Universities: What and How

Encouraging the Growth of Foreign Language Study

Implications of Language Education Policies for Language Study in Schools and Universities