
Academic Journal
Q1Applied Linguistics
About Applied Linguistics
Applied Linguistics is a scholarly journal published by Oxford University Press. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q1, with an SJR of 2.207 and H-index of 138.
Coverage: 1980-2025. Research categories: Communication (Q1); Linguistics and Language (Q1).
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Topics in published research
EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning; Multilingual Education and Policy; Second Language Learning and Teaching; Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies; Discourse Analysis in Language Studies; Second Language Acquisition and Learning.
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2026-10-01 · DOI: 10.1093/applin/amag095Learning English outside of school: Young English language learners’grammar knowledge and writing skills
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2026-10-01 · DOI: 10.1093/applin/amag093Bringing the backstage frontstage: how police emergency call-handlers integrate written incident logs into spoken interaction
Sarah Atkins, Joanne Traynor
2026-09-30 · DOI: 10.1093/applin/amag052Posthuman translanguaging and the reconfiguration of authorship in AI-mediated EFL academic writing
Mohamad Almashour, Hesham Aldamen, Marwan Jarrah
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Juan Dong, Yingying Wang
2026-09-29 · DOI: 10.1093/applin/amag088AI text transformation and linguistic inequality: how computational mechanisms mediate multilingual academic knowledge production
Nora Pireci Sejdiu, Sejdi Sejdiu
2026-09-29 · DOI: 10.1093/applin/amag089Applying Corpus Linguistics To Illness And Healthcare
Yaoting Zhang
2026-09-29 · DOI: 10.1093/applin/amag087A model of metadiscourse for multiaudience talk—the case of police interviews
Nicci MacLeod
2026-09-26 · DOI: 10.1093/applin/amag084Posting the prohibition: “no bill-posting” as performative urban governance in Hong Kong’s linguistic and semiotic landscape
Ge Song
2026-09-25 · DOI: 10.1093/applin/amag086Parallels between gender performativity and linguistic identity: linguistic bias and othering of non-native identities
Serap Keles
2026-09-23 · DOI: 10.1093/applin/amag083Language attitudes and identity in second dialect acquisition: the case of North Korean refugees
Jungah Lee, Kaori Idemaru, Charlotte Vaughn, Vsevolod Kapatsinski et al.
2026-09-21 · DOI: 10.1093/applin/amag076Decolonizing language teacher education: voices from the Global North and Global South
Dan Li, Yawen Han, Juan Dong
2026-09-18 · DOI: 10.1093/applin/amag085Individual differences in children's response to explicit instruction: effects of age and memory ability
Wensi Zhang, Padraic Monaghan, Patrick Rebuschat
2026-09-18 · DOI: 10.1093/applin/amag082Understanding second language learners’ study abroad experience
Yukiko Oki, Masatoshi Sato
2026-09-18 · DOI: 10.1093/applin/amag074Examining the role of interindividual and intraindividual variability in syntactic complexity development across repeated independent and integrated writing tasks
Mahmoud Abdi Tabari, Zhiyun Huang
2026-09-16 · DOI: 10.1093/applin/amag080Tackling linguistic discrimination in higher education: a student-staff collaborative approach
Christian Ilbury, Grace Mai Clark, Shanley Breese
2026-09-16 · DOI: 10.1093/applin/amag078Conversation by design: repair and interactional competence in L2 talk with an AI speaking application
Jiyoung Lee, Yujong Park
2026-09-15 · DOI: 10.1093/applin/amag081Researcher positionality statements in applied linguistics
Amber N Warren, Bedrettin Yazan
2026-09-15 · DOI: 10.1093/applin/amag075Task repetition and orientation in L2 oral narratives: a communication/content/function-focused analysis
Jie Qin, Dilin Liu, Jonathon Ryan
2026-09-15 · DOI: 10.1093/applin/amag079Reviews
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