Best Paper Award

The Languages Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The evaluation committee members choose three articles of exceptional quality that were published in the journal the year before the previous year and announce them online by the end of June.

The Prize:
– Three research articles will be selected;
– First Prize (one winner): CHF 500, a certificate, and a voucher to waive the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for one submission in the journal (subject to peer review)— valid for one year;
– Second Prize (two winners): A voucher to waive the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for one submission in the journal (subject to peer review)— valid for one year;
– Each winner will receive an electronic certificate.

 
Languages Best Paper Award
 
Winner announcement: 30 June 2026

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in the Languages will be eligible (both regular and Special Issue submissions).

Selection Criteria

– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.

 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

12 pages, 869 KiB  
Article
An Exploratory Study of EFL Learners’ Use of ChatGPT for Language Learning Tasks: Experience and Perceptions
by Yangyu Xiao and Yuying Zhi
Languages 2023, 8(3), 212; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8030212 - 13 Sep 2023
24 pages, 1774 KiB  
Article
Cognitive Load Increases Spoken and Gestural Hesitation Frequency
by Simon Betz, Nataliya Bryhadyr, Olcay Türk and Petra Wagner
Languages 2023, 8(1), 71; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8010071 - 2 Mar 2023

Award Committee

Prof. Jeanine Treffers-Daller Chairman
University of Reading
Dr. Donna Erickson
Prof. Dr. Anthony Pak Hin Kong
The University of Hong Kong

Winner

17 pages, 1142 KiB  
Article
Cultural Experience Influences Multisensory Emotion Perception in Bilinguals
by Peiyao Chen, Ashley Chung-Fat-Yim and Viorica Marian
Languages 2022, 7(1), 12; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7010012 - 10 Jan 2022
20 pages, 3147 KiB  
Article
Segmental and Prosodic Evidence for Property-by-Property Transfer in L3 English in Northern Africa
by John Archibald
Languages 2022, 7(1), 28; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7010028 - 6 Feb 2022
28 pages, 500 KiB  
Article
Multilingual Children’s Motivations to Code-Switch: A Qualitative Analysis of Code-Switching in Dutch-English Bilingual Daycares
by Nina-Sophie Sczepurek, Suzanne P. Aalberse and Josje Verhagen
Languages 2022, 7(4), 274; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7040274 - 26 Oct 2022

Award Committee

Prof. Jeanine Treffers-Daller Chairman
University of Reading

Winner

Lisa Kornder
Department of English Studies, University of Graz, 8010 Graz, Austria
Maria Vender
Department of Cultures and Civilizations, University of Verona, 37129 Verona, Italy
Markus Christiner
Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria

Award Committee

Prof. Jeanine Treffers-Daller Chairman
University of Reading
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