Founded in 1983 as Jurnal Bahasa Moden, the Journal of Modern Languages (JML) is now an international peer-reviewed, open access journal published by Universiti Malaya in Malaysia. It is devoted to publishing manuscripts that contribute to current understandings of central issues in the field of language studies. JML encourages interdisciplinary approaches to language research and studies which have real-world applications.

Focus and Scope

JML welcomes original papers in the following areas:

• Applied Linguistics (preferably beyond language learning and teaching)
• Corpus Linguistics
• Descriptive Linguistics
• Discourse Studies 
• Phonetics and Phonology
• Psycholinguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Translation and Interpretation Studies

Peer-Review Policy

• Manuscripts submitted to JML first undergo editorial screening, followed by them being checked for originality. If plagiarism is detected, the manuscript will not be considered for publication.
• Manuscripts that get through the editorial screening will undergo a double-blind peer review process by at least two anonymous reviewers who are knowledgeable in similar areas as the manuscript.
• At this stage, the manuscript may be accepted, or rejected, or may require further revisions, or need to be resubmitted for a second round of review.
• Revised manuscripts will be checked by the Chief Editor and the Associate Editors before a decision is made about the manuscript.
• Articles in a Thematic or Special Issue will be subject to the same evaluation process under the supervision of the Guest Editor.
• Depending on the availability of suitable reviewers, the review process may take up to four months.
• The acceptance rate for publication is on average 60%.

Frequency: From 2020, JML publishes two issues per year in July and December.

Fees: JML does not impose any submission or publication fee.

Open Access Statement: The Journal of Modern Languages is an open access journal. This means that all content is freely available without charge to users or their institutions. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author as long as the source is properly cited.

Licensing: All the articles published in JML are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Online ISSN: 2462-1986

Print ISSN: 1675-526X 

Publisher: Universiti Malaya

Publication type: Online

Indexing and Archiving: JML is indexed in the Malaysian Citation Index, DOAJ, the MLA International Bibliography and EBSCO. It is archived and preserved through Universiti Malaya's journal database https://ejournal.um.edu.my/ and in MyJurnal.