Language Policy contributes to the growth of the field by publishing high-quality studies that help build a sound theoretical understanding of the subject area. It presents papers that deal with the widest range of cases, situations and regions.
This journal covers both language policy and educational policy. It presents policies concerning the status and form of languages as well as acquisition policies pertaining to the teaching and learning of languages. It contains detailed accounts of promoting and managing language policy and research papers on the development, implementation and effects of language policy in all regions of the world and under different conditions. The journal also includes empirical studies that contribute to a theory of language policy.
In addition, Language Policy examines policy development by governments and governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations and business enterprises as well as attempts made by ethnic, religious and minority groups to establish, resist, or modify language policies.
- Helps build a sound theoretical understanding of issues in language policy and educational policy.
- Presents papers that deal with the widest range of cases, situations and regions.
- Contains detailed accounts of promoting and managing language policy and research papers on the development, implementation and effects of language policy in all regions of the world and under different conditions.
- Includes empirical studies that contribute to a theory of language policy and educational policy.
Journal information
- Editors-in-Chief
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- Kate Menken,
- Miguel Pérez-Milans
- Publishing model
- Hybrid (Transformative Journal). Learn about publishing Open Access with us
Journal metrics
- 1.383 (2019)
- Impact factor
- 1.632 (2019)
- Five year impact factor
- 69 days
- Submission to first decision
- 277 days
- Submission to acceptance
- 84,823 (2020)
- Downloads
Latest issue

Volume 20
Thematic Issue: Critical Ethnography of Language Policy in the Global South: Insights from Research in Timor-Leste
Latest articles
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“Now it’s all upper-class parents who are checking out schools”: gentrification as coloniality in the enactment of two-way bilingual education policies
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A Black mother’s counterstory to the Brown–White binary in dual language education: toward disrupting dual language as White property
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Journal updates
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COVID-19 and impact on peer review
As a result of the significant disruption that is being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic we are very aware that many researchers will have difficulty in meeting the timelines associated with our peer review process during normal times. Please do let us know if you need additional time. Our systems will continue to remind you of the original timelines but we intend to be highly flexible at this time.
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TIRF Award Winner
We are pleased to announce that one of Language Policy’s research papers has been awarded the 2019 TIRF James E. Alatis Prize for Research on Language Planning and Policy in Educational Contexts
About this journal
- Electronic ISSN
- 1573-1863
- Print ISSN
- 1568-4555
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- ANVUR
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index
- CNKI
- Current Contents/Arts and Humanities
- Dimensions
- EBSCO Communication
- EBSCO Communication & Mass Media Complete
- EBSCO Discovery Service
- EBSCO Linguistics Abstracts Online
- ERIC
- ERIH PLUS
- Google Scholar
- Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China
- Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition
- MLA International Bibliography
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- ProQuest Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
- ProQuest Social Science Collection
- ProQuest-ExLibris Primo
- ProQuest-ExLibris Summon
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Social Science Citation Index
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Copyright information