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DLIELC Academic Library

The following are language teaching and education journals that contain open, free access. 

American Educational Research Journal

Features articles that advance the empirical, theoretical, and methodological understanding of education and learning.

Applied Linguistics

Applied Linguistics publishes research into language with relevance to real-world issues. The journal  helps make connections between scholarly discourses, theories, and research methods from a broad range of linguistic and other relevant areas of study.

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition

Journal focusing on bilingualism from a linguistic, psycholinguistic, and neuroscientific perspective. Links to list of open access articles within the journal.

Contemporary Issues in Technology & Teacher Education (CITE Journal)

Includes articles related either to general technology use or discipline-specific technology and educational use.

English Language Teaching

Encourages and publishes research in the fields of English language teaching and education. 

English Teaching: Practice and Critique

English Teaching: Practice and Critique

 Seeks to promote research and theory related to English literacy that is grounded in a range of contexts: classrooms, schools and wider educational constituencies. The journal has as its main focus English teaching in L1 settings. Volumes 1-13 (those published before 2015) have free, open access.

e-TEALS

An e-journal of Teacher Education and Applied Language Studies.

Journal of Linguistics 

Publishes articles that make a clear contribution to current debate in all branches of theoretical linguistics. This links to the journal's open access articles.

Kairos: rhetoric, technology, pedagogy

A refereed open-access online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy.

Language Learning & Technology

Open Access journal for second and foreign language scholars and educators.

ORE: Open Access Research in English Language Teaching

ORE: Open-Access Research in English Language Teaching

ORE offers a guide to currently published peer-reviewed ELT research journals from around the world that uphold sound ethical practices of online academic publishing and provide free online access to all of their content.

Reading in a Foreign Language

Source for the latest developments in the field, both theoretical and pedagogic, including improving standards for foreign language reading. 

Second Language Research & Practice 

Publishes post-secondary language education and language program direction such as program articulation, curriculum development, teacher professional development, student learning, and assessment.

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Devoted to the scientific discussion of acquisition or use of non-native and heritage languages. Each volume contains research articles of either a quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods nature in addition to essays on current theoretical matters. This links to articles with open access within the journal.

Teaching English as a Second Language

The Electronic Journal for English as a Second Language.

Language Teaching

The essential research resource for language professionals providing a rich and expert overview of research in the field of second-language teaching and learning.

English Today

English Today provides accessible cutting-edge reports on all aspects of the language, including style, usage, dictionaries, literary language, Plain English, the Internet and language teaching, in terms of British, American and the world’s many other Englishes. 

The Annual Review of Applied Linguistics publishes research on key topics in the broad field of applied linguistics. Each issue is thematic, providing a variety of perspectives on the topic through research summaries, critical overviews, position papers and empirical studies.
ReCALL is the journal of the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL). It encourages the use of technology for the learning and teaching of languages and cultures, and especially the promotion and dissemination of innovative research and practice in areas relating to CALL including, but not limited to: Applied Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Digital Pedagogy, Digital Literacies, Computer-Mediated Communication, Learning Analytics, Second Language Acquisition, and Educational Science.
 Journal of Second Language Teaching and Research (JSLTR)  is engaged with building a community of practice and supports debate and scholarship in second language teaching and research.
TEFLIN Journal publishes manuscripts within the fields of teaching English as a second or foreign language, English language teaching and learning, English language teachers' training and education, and English language and literary studies. 

Journal of Second and Multiple Language Acquisition is a peer-reviewed journal and it publishes theoretical and applied research papers in second and multiple language acquisition.

The International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching is dedicated to communicating research, articles and helpful information regarding language acquisition to support teachers as they endeavor to create fluent, multilingual students.

Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL (SALT)

SALT is committed to building a community and facilitating discussions between students, professors, and practitioners in Applied Linguistics and TESOL worldwide through the publication of quality empirical research, reviews of literature, and interviews with leading scholars in the field.