The Applied Linguistics Association of Korea
The Korean Journal of Applied Linguistics, the official journal of the Applied Linguistics Association of Korea (established in 1978), is a quarterly publication which launched its inaugural issue in 1982. It is a prominent scholarly journal which is listed in the National Research Foundation of Korea’s Korean Citation Index.
The Korean Journal of Applied Linguistics continues to maintain its tradition of publishing articles on various topics in which linguistics is integrated with other related disciplines. For a domestic scholarly journal, it most actively introduces new research topics and methodologies on the more traditional areas such as first language acquisition, second language acquisition, discourse analysis, speech-language pathology, Korean as a second/foreign language, language processing, language education, as well as on relatively new fields such as neurolinguistics, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics, among others. Article types include original studies based on empirical data collected from experimental research, articles that contribute theoretical insights by conforming or expanding on current theories, articles which suggest new methodologies by improving on current methodologies, case studies which target one specific individual or institution and offer solutions on various problems related to English teaching or Korean teaching, or review articles that is devoted to systematically reviewing a select topic. Through rigorous peer review procedures, The Korean Journal of Applied Linguistics aims not only to improve the quality of the published articles, but to contribute to the advancement of the field of Applied Linguistics. Since 2010, we have been rewarding the best article of the year, and encouraging the publication of prominent papers presented at our annual conferences. In 2008, we devoted our 30th anniversary issue to introducing the recent domestic and international research trends in Applied Linguistics.