The Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (JSLAT) invites scholars at any stage of their academic career to submit original full-length manuscripts to be considered for publication in Volume 32. Papers may be empirical studies, research in progress, or conceptual/theoretical studies. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Language pedagogy and program administration (e.g., ESL/EFL and foreign language curriculum development, skills development, testing and evaluation, educational technology, current theoretical approaches to second/foreign language curriculum design, program design, language proficiency assessment, study abroad, and program administration)

• Language use (e.g., discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, multimodal communication, semiotics, linguistic anthropology, rhetoric, language policy/language planning, pragmatics, multilingualism, identity, language variation, and sociocultural factors)

• Language analysis (e.g., grammar, contrastive linguistics/interlanguage studies, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, computational linguistics, and historical linguistics)

• Language processes (e.g., psycholinguistics, cognitive studies, language processing, foreign language learning and research, and interlanguage)

JSLAT values linguistic diversity and encourages multilingual scholarship. We accept manuscripts written in English or in other languages (e.g., Spanish, French, Arabic, Mandarin, Turkish, etc.), provided that an English abstract (100–200 words) is included. We especially welcome research that explores multilingualism and translingual practices in applied linguistics.

Submission guidelines, the AI Policy, and the Volume 32 timeline can be found here. Please review this information before submitting your proposal.

About the Journal:

JSLAT began publication in 1993 as El Two Talk. In 1995, the journal title changed to Arizona Working Papers in Second Language Acquisition & Teaching. Recognizing the global impact of our authors’ work and intending to remove a perception of a regional focus, in 2019, the journal title was changed again to Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. As a peer-reviewed, open-access publication of the University of Arizona’s Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), this journal is a venue for scholarly dialogue among the second language community (both practitioners and researchers) at large. Our past issues are available online as open-access publications here, and feature a wide variety of classroom contexts, regions of the world, languages, and language learners.

JSLAT offers an invaluable community for scholars to discuss issues and areas of SLA, both in-and out-of-classroom contexts, from a number of different disciplinary perspectives. This interdisciplinary approach to addressing real-world issues is a hallmark of the SLAT graduate interdisciplinary program. 

For any inquiries or questions about submission, please contact the editorial team at kladieva@arizona.edu, temaat@arizona.edu, and saraleila@arizona.edu.

JSLAT Co-Editors