Author Guidelines
Author Guidelines
GENERAL CONDITION
- Articles must be original and have never been published elsewhere.
- Article is written by two to five authors
- An article that reaches a 20% similarity index by Turnitin will be turned down.
- Article is written in English. We recommend professional proofreading for non-native speaker authors.
- Authors must strictly follow the submission guidelines of the journal. Submissions that do not adhere to the guidelines provided will be REJECTED.
- Any authorship and affiliation change is at the Editor’s discretion.
ARTICLE
- Articles must be on English Language Teaching, Technology Enhanced Language Learning, discourse analysis, applied education research, and linguistics studies.
- Articles must be written in English.
- The length of the article is between 4000-8000 words (including abstract, table(s), figure(s) and references).
- The document is typed using Microsoft Words (doc/docx) with the following format:
- single-spaced;
- uses a 11-point Arial font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and
- all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- Text’s margin is (a) left : 4.01 cm, (b) top: 3 cm, (c) right: 2.49 cm, (d) bottom: 2.49 cm
Tittle:Text has a title, reflecting the content. The number of words for a title is at most 20 words. The Title should be clear, brief, and informative. Abbreviations should be avoided. No place or year is included.
6. Author Identity :A complete name is a must, without mentioning a university degree or position of job, below the title. Exactly below the name of the author, the department of studies, name of institution, country, and the corresponding author's e-mail address must be written.
7. Abstract :The abstract should concisely describe the content and scope of your paper and identify the objective(s), its methodology and its findings, conclusions, and implication of study. It should be about 200 words (minimum) and 250 words (maximum), followed by three to five keywords related to your article.
8. Keywords :Keywords are placed below the abstract, consisting of not more than five words or phrases using full stop. Each Keyword is separated with semicolon.
9. Organization :INTRODUCTION
Indent the first line of every paragraph by 1 cm. State the objectives of your work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results. Explicitly state the gap in the literature, which signifies the significance of your research. Submissions should be between 4000-8000 (including abstract, table(s), figure(s) and references).
Upon receipt of paper submission, the Editor sends an e-mail of confirmation to the corresponding author within a week. If you fail to receive this confirmation, your submission/email may be missed. No submission charge should be paid at this stage. We use double-blind system for peer-review; both reviewers and authors’ identities remain anonymous. The paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts. The review process may take 2-3 months. Notification of the result of review is by e-mail.
You must revise paper according to the feedback and suggestions by reviewers. Upon acceptance, After publication, the corresponding author will receive an email of notification on e-journal in PDF that is available on the journal’s webpage, and free of charge for download
LITERATURE REVIEW
Include the current knowledge including substantive findings, as well as theoretical and methodological contributions to your topic. A literature review surveys books, scholarly articles, and any other sources relevant to a particular issue, area of research, or theory, and by so doing, provides a description, summary, and critical evaluation of these works in relation to the research problem being investigated.
2.1. Sub Heading 1
The reference list should be arranged alphabetically following the guidelines of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). For example:
1 author (Clarke, 2010)
2 authors (Lightbown & Spada, 1993)
3 and more authors (Reid et al., 1989)
Prior to copyediting after article acceptance, the references will be put into Endnote by the Editors.
2.1.1 Sub heading 2
Short quotations (less than 40 words):
Deterding (1997, p. 54) said that “connected speech represents somewhat more natural data than the rather artificial vowels derived from specially articulated citation speech”.
Long quotations (more than 40 words):
From the acoustic standpoint, even the sounds of words used by a speaker are one of the forms of his or her identity. Accordingly, Jacobi (2009) explained that:
Along with communicating meaning, the acoustic signal is a product of physical properties and changes, as well as of more generally all those factors that form the identity of the speaker, such as social affiliation or family origin. The choice of words but also the way they are realized differs from speaker to speaker, as well as within a speaker. Even more, from an acoustic point of view, each utterance is unique. (Jacobi, 2009, p. 2).
When paraphrasing a source that is not your own, be sure to represent the author’s information or opinions accurately and in your own words. Even when paraphrasing an author’s work, you still must provide a citation to that work. When directly quoting an author’s work, provide citation marks at the beginning till the end of the citation, and page number is necessary to be noted besides the name of the author and year of publication.
METHODS
Provide sufficient detail to allow your work to be reproduced. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications should be described.
RESULTS (or, this section may be combined with DISCUSSION)
Present the results of your work. Use graphs and tables if appropriate, but also summarize your main findings in the text. Do NOT discuss the results or speculate as to why something happened; that goes in the Discussion
DISCUSSION (this section may be combined with RESULTS)
Highlight the most significant results, but do not repeat what has been written in the Results section. The purpose of the discussion is to interpret and describe the significance of your findings in light of what was already known about the research problem being investigated and to explain any new understanding or insights that emerged as a result of your study of the problem. A combined Results and Discussion section is often appropriate.
Please note that all names/references mentioned in the text/article, they should be listed in the References section. Names that are not mentioned in the text/article, they should be removed from the References section.
CONCLUSION
Provide the conclusion to your study, and final words on the value of your analysis, research, or paper. Limitations of your study should be addressed. Recommendations for future research related to your topic should also be mentioned.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT (Optional)
The author can state the source of research funding and more specifically to the contract number
REFERENCES
Prioritize articles in English and articles from reputable journals. Majority references for the last 10 years, and 30 minimum references. To make accountable references, the author can use reference management software, such as Mendeley. Make a list of references and citations in the text that fit the APA 7th Edition style
You can download the template here
