About this journal

Critical Inquiry in Language Studies: An International Journal ( CILS) is an international, peer-reviewed journal that engages fields of applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, language policy and planning, literacy studies and education. 

CILS focuses on research and scholarship in language matters, generated from qualitative, critical pedagogical, and emergent paradigms. In these perspectives, language is considered a socially constituted cultural construct that gives shape to, and at the same time, is shaped by, the larger social, political, and historical contexts of use. The primary purpose of the journal is to provide a forum for discussion of research from these paradigms, across disciplinary boundaries.

Readership: Researchers, scholars, graduate students and practitioners interested in critical language studies, particularly in the fields of applied linguistics, TESOL, language education, bi/multilingual education, rhetoric and composition, language policy and planning, modern languages and literatures, educational studies, anthropology, sociology, history, political science, psychology, and cultural studies. The journal may also be of interest to educational stakeholders and communities and those engaged in methodologies in language studies.

Peer Review Policy:

Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

Open Access:

Submissions: CILS publishes several types of contributions, including empirical articles, conceptual or state-of-the-art papers and book reviews. The journal is published four times per year, including an annual invited or open-call special issue.

To submit an article, please refer to the Instructions for Authors. To submit a book review, please review the Instructions for Book Review and contact the Book Review Editor directly.  For more information about submitting a special issue proposal, please contact a member of the editorial team.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Saskia Van Viegen – York University, Canada

CO-EDITORS

Sunny Lau – Bishop's University, Canada
Anwar Ahmed – University of British Columbia, Canada

MEDIA REVIEW EDITORS

Ryuko Kubota – University of British Columbia, Canada

NEWS & NOTES EDITORS

Lisa Patel Stevens – Boston College, USA

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Noah Khan – University of Toronto, Canada

EDITORIAL BOARD

Michael Apple – University of Wisconsin, USA
Francesca Balladon – University of Natal, South Africa
Dennis Baron – University of Illinois, USA
Charles Bazerman – University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Sarah Benesch – College of Staten Island, CUNY, USA
Christian Chun – University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
James Cummins – Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada
Ana Deumert – University of Cape Town, South Africa
Richard Donato – University of Pittsburgh, USA
Kadidia Doumbia – Excelsior College, USA
Sender Dovchin – Curtin University, Australia
James Gee – University of Wisconsin, USA
François M. Grin – Université de Genève, Switzerland
Joan Kelly Hall – Pennsylvania State University, USA
Francis Hult – UMBC, USA
Ryuko Kubota – University of British Columbia, Canada
James Lantolf – Pennsylvania State University, USA
Constant Leung – King's College London, UK
Cynthia Lewis – University of Minnesota, USA
Angel Lin – The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Allan Luke – Queensland University of Technology, New Zealand
Donaldo Macedo – University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Elizabeth Miller – University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
Frank Nuessel – University of Louisville, USA
Margaret Obondo – Rinkeby Institute of Multilingual Research, Sweden
Terry A. Osborn – University of South Florida, USA
Alastair Pennycook – University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Timothy Reagan – University of Maine, USA
Teresa Rishel – Ball State University, USA
Elana Shohamy – Tel Aviv University, Israel
James W. Tollefson – University of Washington, USA
Guadalupe Valdes – Stanford University, USA
Stephanie Vandrick – University of San Francisco, USA
Teun A. van Dijk – Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Raúl Alberto Mora Vélez – Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia
Jerry Won Lee – University of California, Irvine, USA
Mi Yung Park – University of Auckland, New Zealand