''System'' is a

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covering the applications of

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and

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to problems of foreign language teaching and learning. It was established in 1973 and is published by

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. As of 2022, the

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, in alphabetical order, are Idoia Elola (

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), Mairin Hennebry (

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), Jim McKinley (

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, University of London), Lawrence Jun Zhang (

University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn ...

), and Yongyan Zheng (

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). The associate editor is Vincent Greenier (

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), the book reviews editor is Pascal Matzler ( Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso), and the student editor is Nathan Thomas (

). Until 2013, ''System'' published four issues per year. In 2014, it published six issues, and since 2015 it has published eight issues per year.

Impact

According to the ''

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'', in 2021 the journal had an

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of 4.518 (up from 3.167 in 2020), ranking it 12th out of 194 (previously 15th out of 193) journals in the category "Linguistics" and 35th out of 267 (previously 68th out of 264) journals in the category "Education & Educational Research". Given the popularity of ''System'' as an academic research journal among second/foreign language researchers, the number of papers accepted and finally published is around 140 per year. Nonetheless, the citations to these published papers remain high. This is something the readers are really very proud of.

Former editors

*Lluïsa Astruc *James A. Coleman *Norman Davies (founding editor 1973-2010) *Xuesong (Andy) Gao *Marta González-Lloret *Regine Hampel *

Sarah Mercer Sarah Jane Mercer (born 1974) is a British linguist. She is currently the head of the Department of English Language Teaching at the University of Graz, Austria. Her research focuses on applied linguistics, with a special focus on psycholin ...

*Ursula Stickler *Robert Vanderplank *Liang Wang

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Impact

Former editors

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