First Language (journal)

First Language is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers three times a year in the field of language. The journal's editor is Chloë Marshall (University of London) who has taken over at the start of 2017 from longtime editor Kevin Durkin (University of Strathclyde). It has been in publication since 1980 and is currently published by SAGE Publishing. The journal is also a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics.

Scope

First Language focuses on original research in child language acquisition. The journal is multidisciplinary, containing research from diverse theoretical and methodological origins. First Language contains papers from a range of disciplines such as linguistics, anthropology and neuroscience.

Abstracting and indexing

First Language is abstracted and indexed in the following databases:

• Academic Premier
• British Education Index
• Educational Research Abstracts Online
• SCOPUS
• Special Education Needs Abstracts

References

External links

• Official website

1. First language
2. Language (journal)
3. People-first language
4. Journal of Language Relationship
5. The Modern Language Journal
6. Language Learning (journal)
7. Language Teaching (journal)
8. Journal of Child Language
9. Journal of Memory and Language
10. Second language
11. First Monday (journal)
12. Language acquisition
13. System (journal)
14. List of languages by first written account
15. Journals of the First Fleet
16. Enochian
17. Journal of Second Language Writing
18. Language and Literature
19. Turkic languages
20. Language Testing