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April 12, 2011
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Professor Dorothy Chun of UC Santa Barbara's Gevirtz School edits a journal named one of the top journals in education and linguistics

Language Learning & Technology, edited by Professor Dorothy Chun, has once again been named one of the top journals in education, according to Thomson Reuters’s Journal Citation Reports. Chun is a Professor in the Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School.

The article found Language Learning & Technology to be the 3rd ranked journal for 2009 (out of 139) in the field of education in terms of impact factor. Language Learning & Technology also was ranked 3rd among 93 linguistics journals. The article explains, “The 2009 impact factor is calculated by taking the number of all current citations to source items published in a journal over the previous two years and dividing by the number of articles published in the journal during the same period--in other words, a ratio between citations and recent citable items published.”

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking of Language Learning & Technology:

Year	Impact Factor	5 Year	Linguistics	Education
2009	2.53	3.575	3 out of 93	3 out of 139
2008	1.70	2.067	11 out of 68	9 out of 113
2007	1.22	No Data	13 out of 55	14 out of 105

Language Learning & Technology is a fully refereed journal that began publication in July 1997. The journal seeks to disseminate research to foreign and second language educators in the US and around the world on issues related to technology and second language education. With an editorial board of scholars in the fields of second language acquisition and computer-assisted language learning, the focus of the publication is not technology per se, but rather issues related to language learning and language teaching, and how they are affected or enhanced by the use of technologies. Language Learning & Technology is sponsored and funded by the University of Hawai’i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) and the Michigan State University Center for Language Education And Research (CLEAR), and is co-sponsored by the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL).

Prior to joining the Gevirtz School full-time, Dorothy Chun had been a professor of German and Applied Linguistics in the Department of Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies, which she joined in 1992. In addition to editing LL&T, she is currently director of the Ph.D. Emphasis in Applied Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara. Her areas of research involve second language acquisition (L2 phonology and intonation, L2 reading and vocabulary acquisition). She has conducted studies on the cognitive processes during learning with multimedia and has developed CD-ROMs and websites for language acquisition.

Chun is the author of the book Discourse Intonation in L2: From Theory and Research to Practice (John Benjamins, 2002) and over twenty articles and twenty book chapters. In addition to her teaching and research, Chun has served UC Santa Barbara in a number of administrative capacities. She has served as the interim director of the Spanish and Portuguese Language Programs, as the Acting Chair of the Department of Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies, as the acting campus director for the Education Abroad Program, and the acting associate vice chancellor for Academic Programs.

[Dorothy Chun is available for interviews; contact George Yatchisin at 805 893 5789]
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