Language Testing
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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.
| Talia Isaacs | University College London, UK |
| Xun Yan | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| Ruslan Suvorov | Western University, Canada |
| Benjamin Kremmel | University of Innsbruck, Austria |
| Troy Cox | Brigham Young University, USA |
| 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 |
Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.