JoLaCE - Journal of Language and Cultural Education
ISSN 1339-4584 (online)
ISSN 1339-4045 (print, 2013-2016)
Journal of Language and Cultural Education (JoLaCE) is a double-blind peer-reviewed international journal promoting international scholarly exchange among researchers, academics, and professionals. The journal is published online three issues a year (in January, May, and September). Starting with Issue 2015/1, the online journal is published by De Gruyter Open. Since 2015, the journal is indexed in ERIH+ and in Web of Science.
Scope
- Language education and pedagogy
- Applied linguistics (including sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics) in language education
- Literary scholarship & literary education
- Cultural studies & cultural education. Intercultural education
- Translation studies and education
- Research methods in related fields
Moreover, papers which approach topics such as listed above from theoretical and analytical perspectives sourced from anywhere across the humanities, social and cognitive sciences, including but not limited to the following, are welcomed:
- Psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics
- Functional and cognitive linguistics
- Corpus linguistics
- Discourse analysis
- Ethnography of communication and culture
- Media and mass communication studies
- Discursive psychology.
- Bilingual and multilingual education
- First (mother), second and foreign language teaching and learning
- Child, second, and foreign language acquisition
- Child literacy development
- Language teaching approaches, methods and techniques
- Teaching and curricular practices in language and cultural education
Curriculum development for language and cultural education - Syllabus and materials design for language and cultural education
- Language teaching for academic and specific purposes, CLIL
- Cross-curricular education
- Cultural and cross-cultural studies
- Literary studies at and for schools
- Teaching languages and cultures to learners with special educational needs
- Language, literature and culture teacher training and their professional development
- New technologies in language and cultural education
We especially welcome papers which re-examine existing theoretical frameworks and/or which highlight and apply new methodologies.