TY - JOUR
T1 - Fifty years of System research and projections for the future
AU - McKinley, Jim
AU - Zhang, Lawrence Jun
AU - Elola, Idoia
AU - Hennebry-Leung, Mairin
AU - Zheng, Yongyan
AU - Greenier, Vincent
AU - Thomas, Nathan
AU - Matzler, Pascal
N1 - We are grateful to all those who contributed to this article in ways other than writing: Mariusz Baranowski and Piotr Cichocki who conducted the broad topic modeling analysis of available System manuscripts, and to System Editorial Board members Honggang Liu and Heath Rose who provided their reflections included in the manuscript.
PY - 2024/4/1
Y1 - 2024/4/1
N2 - Since its first issue published in 1973, System has always been devoted to the applications of educational technology and applied linguistics to problems of second, foreign or heritage language teaching and learning. An important mission of this international journal has been to investigate the teaching and learning of all languages (e.g. English, Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, and so on) all over the world. At the editorial helm for 38 of its 50 years, founding editor Norman Davies guided the journal from a local publication of the Department of Languages and Literature at Linköping University in Sweden to its gained notoriety within six years when the journal was published by Pergamon Press. The Press was then sold to Elsevier in 1991, which has published System since. Over the years, the different editorial teams have published articles that not only offer a sound theoretical base and a visible practical application for a broad readership, but also deal with critical issues in language teaching and learning, proposing innovative ideas for advancing the field.In System's 50th anniversary we celebrate the same aims and accomplishments that have made the journal a significant resource for applied linguistics.....
AB - Since its first issue published in 1973, System has always been devoted to the applications of educational technology and applied linguistics to problems of second, foreign or heritage language teaching and learning. An important mission of this international journal has been to investigate the teaching and learning of all languages (e.g. English, Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, and so on) all over the world. At the editorial helm for 38 of its 50 years, founding editor Norman Davies guided the journal from a local publication of the Department of Languages and Literature at Linköping University in Sweden to its gained notoriety within six years when the journal was published by Pergamon Press. The Press was then sold to Elsevier in 1991, which has published System since. Over the years, the different editorial teams have published articles that not only offer a sound theoretical base and a visible practical application for a broad readership, but also deal with critical issues in language teaching and learning, proposing innovative ideas for advancing the field.In System's 50th anniversary we celebrate the same aims and accomplishments that have made the journal a significant resource for applied linguistics.....
U2 - 10.1016/j.system.2023.103210
DO - 10.1016/j.system.2023.103210
M3 - Article
SN - 0346-251X
VL - 121
JO - System
JF - System
M1 - 103210
ER -