Announcements

Language Value is now on Diamond Open Access

2026-04-16

We are pleased to announce that Language Value has been recently included in the Diamond Discovery Hub, a platform that brings together journals committed to Diamond Open Access publishing.

This inclusion reflects the journal’s ongoing commitment to accessible, high-quality research and to a model of academic publishing that is free of charge for both authors and readers. It also marks a positive step in the journal’s ongoing development and broader academic recognition.

To find out more about Diamond Open Access, click here: https://edch.eu/diamond-open-access 

The Editorial Team

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Language Value (December 2026)

2026-02-03

Language, Multimodality and Mediation: Didactic Perspectives on Technologies and Communication

Special Issue Guest Editors:

  • Dr. Jesus Garcia Laborda (Universidad de Alcalá)
  • Dr. Miguel Fernandez Alvarez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
  • Ms. Iulia Vescan (Instituto Franklin – UAH)
  • Ms. Angela Sauciuc (Instituto Franklin – UAH)

Overview

The core focus of this special issue is to investigate how multimodality, digital technologies, and linguistic/cultural mediation are reshaping the landscape of language and literature teaching. We aim to:

  • Analyze the impact of multimodal resources on developing oral and written communicative skills.
  • Examine mediation, translation, and interpretation as vital didactic practices and curricular competences.
  • Investigate linguistic factors in ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and the discursive practices that emerge in these digital environments.
  • Reflect on teacher training requirements for digital, multimodal, and multilingual scenarios.
  • Foster knowledge transfer between academic research and practical educational innovation.

Thematic Scope & Areas of Interest

We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions across various themes, including but not limited to: Multimodality and communication in language teaching; ICT, digital, and hybrid environments; Linguistic and cultural mediation in education; Didactics of translation and interpretation; Developing communicative competences (oral and written); Language, values, and attitudes in multicultural contexts; Initial and continuing teacher education; Analysis of language curricula and methodological innovation; Evidence-based classroom research.

Important Dates

Potential authors will submit a 500-word abstract (not including bibliographical references) by March 15, 2026 to jesus.garcialaborda@uah.es

 

Abstract Submission (500 words): March 15, 2026

Notification of Acceptance: April 1, 2026

Full Manuscript Submission: June 1, 2026

Final Submission (Accepted Articles): October 15, 2026

Publication Date: December 2026

Welcome message

2026-02-03

We are delighted to take on the journal’s editorial leadership. We begin this new stage with enthusiasm and a strong commitment to academic quality, a rigorous and fair peer-review process, and the continued international visibility of the journal.

We would like to express our sincere thanks to the outgoing team, and to everyone who supports the journal (authors, reviewers, and members of the Advisory and Editorial Boards) for their dedication and continued collaboration.


We look forward to working together to further strengthen the journal as an inclusive and demanding space for scholarly exchange.


The Editorial Team

Farewell message

2025-12-30

After eight years at the helm of the journal Language Value (2018–2025), the current editorial team would like to announce the conclusion of this phase and the handover to a new team, which will assume the direction and management of the journal starting with the next issue.

During this period, it has been a privilege to contribute to the development and consolidation of Language Value as a forum for academic reflection on language, discourse, and diverse educational, social, and cultural contexts. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the authors, reviewers, and readers for their trust, commitment, and academic rigor, as well as for the institutional support that has made the journal’s growth and continuity possible.

We step aside with a sense of accomplishment for the work carried out and with optimism for the future of Language Value, extending our special thanks to the academic community of the Universitat Jaume I for its continued support over the years. We leave the journal at a stage of maturity, with solid indexation and the quality recognition granted by the FECYT seal of the Spanish Ministry of Science, including the distinction for Good Editorial Practices in Gender Equality, which attests to the collective effort and editorial recognition achieved.

Kind regards,

The outgoing editorial team
Language Value

FECYT Seal of Quality

2025-12-30

We are pleased to inform you that Language Value journal has received the POSITIVE evaluation of the FECYT Seal of Quality from the Ministry of Science and Innovation (9th edition of the evaluation of the Spanish scientific journals), in the areas of Linguistics and Communication, Information and Scientific Documentation. We have also been awarded the mention in Good Scientific Practices in Gender Equality.

New issue 18.2

2025-12-30

Language Value Issue 18.2 has been published on 30 December 2025.

New issue 18.1

2025-07-28

Language Value Issue 18.1 has been published on 28 July 2025.

FECYT Seal of Quality

2023-07-02

We are pleased to inform you that Language Value journal has received the POSITIVE evaluation of the FECYT Seal of Quality from the Ministry of Science and Innovation (8th edition of the evaluation of the Spanish scientific journals), in the areas of Linguistics and Communication, Information and Scientific Documentation.

Whole issue 16.1

2023-06-15

Language Value Issue 16.1 has been published on 15 June 2023.

Call for papers (Special issue)

2022-09-08

Special Issue

Guest Editors: Dr. Francisco J. Álvarez-Gil and Dra. Ivalla Ortega-Barrera (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain).

The relational aspect of language can be studied from multiple approaches, as argued by Lorés-Sanz, Mur-Dueñas and Lafuente-Millán (2010), Sancho Guinda, Gotti and Breeze (2014), among others, including methods of discourse and conversational analysis, critical discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics. The nature of this phenomenon often makes it advisable to describe it from more than one perspective that can account for both its form and meaning, as well as the function they fulfil and the reason why a specific marker is chosen in a specific discursive moment, such as the act of persuasion (Orts and Breeze 2017, p. 10).

It is reasonable to think that, in addition to attested politeness devices in women’s early technical writing, a web of relational markers is used, which may or may not present variation according to the contextual variables of situation and culture (register and textual genre) and possibly time. This hypothesis, although it reflects a linguistic fact to be expected in any speaker, does not rule out the possibility that women, depending on the time and their social situation, may use markers similar to those used by men, although it is expected that there is a set of markers, as seen in the study by Alonso-Almeida and Álvarez-Gil (2022), which are specific to non-literary writing by women. All of this would allow us to show more clearly the role that women have historically played in the construction of scientific thought.

Relevant dates: 
Proposal submission deadline (abstract 150-200 words without references): October 15, 2022, to be submitted to ivalla.ortega@ulpgc.es and francisco.alvarez@ulpgc.es 
Notification of acceptance: November 1, 2022  
Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2023, to be submitted to LV platform. 
Please, follow the journal guidelines for the submission. Language Value uses a TEMPLATE. 
Notification of acceptance: mid-April 2023 
Publication date: June 2023

Whole isssue 14.2

2021-12-15

The current issue 14.2 of Language Value entitled New Directions in English as a Medium of Instruction in Tertiary Education has been published in December 2021.

Call for papers (Special Issue): New Directions in English as a Medium of Instruction in Tertiary Education

2021-07-28

Editor: Prof. Francisco Alonso Almeida (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)

This special issue of Language Value will bring together original studies on English as a Medium of Instruction. We seek reflection on methodological practices in the EMI framework following from theoretical and empirical research relating EMI and such aspects as national language policies, learning and teaching strategies, cross-cultural variables, sex and gender equity in teaching professional content, the role of psycholinguistics, classroom interaction, the effect of socio-cultural variables in learning, teaching and learning materials, and evaluation, among others.

Relevant dates:

Paper submission deadline: September 1, 2021 to be submitted to LV platform.

Please, follow the journal guidelines for the submission. Language Value uses a TEMPLATE.

Notification of acceptance: end October 2021

Publication date: December 2021

Issue 14 published

2021-07-28

The current issue 14 of Language Value has been published in July 2021.

 

UPDATE on Indexing

2021-02-15

We are pleased to announce that Language Value journal has been accepted in Scopus and DOAJ databases.

 

Issue 13 published

2021-01-22

The current issue 13 of Language Value was published in December 2020.

UPDATE on Indexing

2020-12-02

We are pleased to announce that Language Value journal has been accepted in Scopus and REDIB databases.