Overview

The International Journal of Applied Linguistics (InJAL) publishes articles that explore the relationship between expertise in linguistics, broadly defined, and the everyday experience of language. Its scope is international in that it welcomes articles which show explicitly how local issues of language use or learning exemplify more global concerns.

Aims and Scope

The International Journal of Applied Linguistics publishes articles that focus on the mediation between expertise about language and experience of language. The journal seeks to develop an awareness of the way language works, how it affects peoples' lives, and what interventions are desirable and feasible to make in differing domains of language use and learning.

Articles in InJAL should explicitly address the 'So what?' question: How do ideas, observations, results, suggestions presented in a paper relate to actual 'real world' problems involving language? How could or should what is discussed in a paper be followed up, or followed through, to practical proposals? Is there a convincing explicit connection between the disciplinary areas the author draws on and the domains where people engage with language? The journal thus conceives of applied linguistics as essentially being a process which seeks a negotiated settlement of language problems through the reconciliation of different and sometimes conflicting perspectives.

The journal aims to cover all possible domains and fields of applied linguistics, including but not limited to:

  • Analysis of Written Discourse and Spoken Interaction
  • Assessment and Evaluation
  • Bilingual, Immersion, Heritage, and Minority Education
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Critical Discourse Analysis and Ideology
  • Educational Linguistics
  • Grammar, Syntax and Semantics: Learning and Teaching
  • English as a Global Language
  • Communication in Professional Contexts
  • Language Attrition and Loss
  • Language, Multimodality, and New Media
  • Language and Intercultural Communication
  • Language for Specific Purposes
  • Language, Gender, and Sexuality
  • Language Revitalization, Planning, and Policy
  • Languages other than English
  • Language Teacher Education and professional development
  • Multilingualism and Plurilingualism
  • Phonology/Phonetics and Oral Communication: Learning and Teaching
  • Pragmatics and Pragmatic Competence
  • Psycholinguistics, Language Cognition, and Processing
  • Reading, Writing, and Literacy
  • Research Methodology
  • Second and Foreign Language Pedagogy
  • (Second) Language Acquisition, socialisation, and Development
  • Sociolinguistics and Language Use
  • Technology-enhanced Language Education
  • Translation and Interpretation
  • Vocabulary and Lexical Studies: Learning and Teaching

The language of this journal is English, but its concerns are by no means confined to what goes on in English native-speaking communities. We want to encourage submissions that show what issues in applied linguistics arise in different regions and cultures, and how far they might call for different perspectives and different kinds of mediation. What we are interested in is how the particular and the general are inter-related — in short, papers which are international in the sense that they show explicitly how local issues of language use or learning exemplify more global concerns.

Keywords

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