Focus and Scope

Aims

Journal of Language Pedagogy and Linguistics aims to:

  • promote high-quality research in language teaching, language learning, and linguistics;
  • strengthen connections between linguistic theory, empirical research, and pedagogical practice;
  • encourage innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to language-related issues;
  • support research addressing diverse learners, languages, educational settings, and sociocultural contexts;
  • facilitate dialogue among researchers, teachers, teacher educators, and other language professionals;
  • contribute to the development of inclusive, equitable, and context-sensitive language education;
  • provide opportunities for emerging and established scholars from different regions of the world to disseminate their work; and
  • support research studies in any field of applied linguistics.

JLPL welcomes quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, theoretical, and review studies that make a clear contribution to language pedagogy, linguistics, or the relationship between these fields.

 

Scope

The journal welcomes quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, experimental, quasi-experimental, design-based, action research, case study, longitudinal, and cross-cultural investigations. Manuscripts should demonstrate methodological rigor, theoretical significance, and practical relevance. The journal invites studies related to:

  • first, second, and foreign language teaching and learning;
  • multilingual learning;
  • applied linguistics;
  • language teacher education and professional development;
  • curriculum design and materials development;
  • assessment and evaluation;
  • educational technology and technology-enhanced language learning;
  • artificial intelligence in language education;
  • multilingualism, bilingualism, and translanguaging;
  • English as a Lingua Franca and World Englishes;
  • sociolinguistics and the sociology of language;
  • psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics;
  • discourse analysis and conversation analysis;
  • pragmatics and intercultural communication;
  • phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics;
  • corpus linguistics;
  • cognitive linguistics;
  • critical applied linguistics;
  • literacy and academic language development;
  • language learning strategies, learner identity, and learner autonomy;
  • inclusive language education and the teaching of learners with special educational needs;
  • language education in primary, secondary, and tertiary settings;
  • lifelong learning and continuing language education;
  • student engagement, motivation, and well-being;
  • language policy, governance, and reform;
  • global, comparative, and international language education;
  • learning analytics and educational data science in language education and linguistics;
  • sustainability, citizenship, and global competence education;
  • interdisciplinary approaches to applied linguistic research.