The shifts we witness in the pedagogical domains reviewed above, from largely cognitivist paradigms on discrete language skills to more social and political orientations on contextualized communicative practices, are perhaps reflected in the types of articles published in TQ. In their analysis of the journal from 1967 to 2011, Jun Liu and Berger (2015) observe that among the areas with an upward trend are language use and sociolinguistics, policy and standards, and learners and language learning. Those with downward trends include SLA, curriculum and materials, methodology, assessment, and language skills.