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Language Testing


eISSN: 14770946 | ISSN: 02655322 | Current volume: 41 | Current issue: 2 Frequency: Quarterly

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Language Testing is an international peer reviewed journal that publishes original research on foreign, second, additional, and bi-/multi-/trans-lingual (henceforth collectively called L2) language testing, assessment, and evaluation. Since 1984 it has featured high impact L2 testing papers covering theoretical issues, empirical studies, and reviews. The journal's scope encompasses the testing, assessment, and evaluation of spoken and signed languages being learned as L2s by children and adults, and the use of tests as research and evaluation tools that are used to provide information on the language knowledge and language performance abilities of L2 learners. Many articles also contribute to methodological innovation and the practical improvement of L2 testing internationally. In addition, the journal publishes submissions that deal with L2 testing policy issues, including the use of tests for making high-stakes decisions about L2 learners in fields as diverse as education, employment, and international mobility.

The journal welcomes the submission of papers that deal with ethical and philosophical issues in L2 testing, as well as issues centering on L2 test design, validation, and technical matters. Also of concern is research into the washback and impact of L2 language test use, the consequences of testing on L2 learner groups, and ground-breaking uses of assessments for L2 learning. Additionally, the journal wishes to publish replication studies that help to embed and extend knowledge of generalisable findings in the field. Language Testing is committed to encouraging interdisciplinary research, and is keen to receive submissions which draw on current theory and methodology from different areas within second language acquisition, applied linguistics, educational measurement, psycholinguistics, general education, psychology, cognitive science, language policy, and other relevant subdisciplines that interface with language testing and assessment. Authors are encouraged to adhere to Open Science Initiatives.

Language Testing is an international peer reviewed journal that publishes original research on foreign, second, additional, and bi-/multi-/trans-lingual (henceforth collectively called L2) language testing, assessment, and evaluation. The journal's scope encompasses the testing of L2s being learned by children and adults, and the use of tests as research and evaluation tools that are used to provide information on the knowledge and performance abilities of L2 learners.

In addition, the journal publishes submissions that deal with L2 testing policy issues, including the use of tests for making high-stakes decisions about L2 learners in fields as diverse as education, employment, and international mobility. The journal welcomes the submission of papers that deal with ethical and philosophical issues in L2 testing, as well as issues centering on L2 test design, validation, and technical matters. Primary studies, replication studies, and secondary analyses of pre-existing data are welcome. Authors are encouraged to adhere to Open Science Initiatives.

Editors
Talia Isaacs University College London, UK
Xun Yan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Associate Editor
Ruslan Suvorov Western University, Canada
Book Review Editor
Benjamin Kremmel University of Innsbruck, Austria
Test Reviews Editor
Troy Cox Brigham Young University, USA
Editorial Board
Vahid Aryadoust Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Khaled Barkaoui York University, Canada
Aaron Olaf Batty Keio University, Fujisawa, Japan
Tineke Brunfaut Lancaster University, UK
Dylan Burton Georgia State University, USA
Carol Chapelle Iowa State University, USA
Inn-Chull Choi Korea University, South Korea
Troy Cox Brigham Young University, USA
Bart Deygers Ghent University, Belgium
Jason Fan The University of Melbourne, Australia
Anthony Green University of Bedfordshire, UK
Luke Harding Lancaster University, UK
Franz Holzknecht University of Teacher Education in Special Needs, Switzerland
Becky Huang Ohio State University, USA
Bimali Indrarathne General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Sri Lanka
Dan Isbell University of Hawai’i at Mãnoa, USA
Noriko Iwashita University of Queensland, Australia
Okim Kang University of Northern Arizona, USA
Rie Koizumi University of Tsukuba, Japan
Daniel Lam University of Glasgow, UK
Salomé Villa Larenas Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile
Hongli Li Georgia State University, USA
Zhi Li University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Susy MacQueen Australian National University, Australia
Stuart McLean Kindai University, Japan
Shangchao Min Zhejiang University, China
Fumiyo Nakatsuhara University of Bedfordshire, UK
Lia Plakans University of Iowa, USA
Yasuyo Sawaki Waseda University, Japan
Jamie Schissel University of North Carolina, USA
Sun-young Shin Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Jonathan Trace Keio University, Japan
Paula Winke Michigan State University, USA
Jin Yan Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Soo Jung Youn Daegu National University of Education, South Korea
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