ial is a refereed journal managed by scholars in the field of applied linguistics. Our aim is to publish outstanding research from faculty, independent researchers, and graduate students in the broad areas of:

• Second Language Acquisition
  
• Language Socialization
  
• Language Education
  
• Language Use
  
• Language Evolution
  
• Discourse Analysis
  
• Language and the Brain
  
• Language and Psychophysiology
  
• Bilingual Education
  
• Sociolinguistics
  
• Corpus Linguistics
  
• Language Minorities
  
• Language Policy
  
• Language Assessment
  
• English Language Teaching
  
• Classroom-based Research
  
• Foreign/Second Language Teaching Methodology
  

ial publishes articles, book reviews, and interviews with notable scholars.