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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point 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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Papers are invited from anywhere in the world, and so authors are asked to ensure that sufficient context is provided for all readers to appreciate their contribution.

The types of papers that may be considered for inclusion is the original research paper,

  1. The author(s) must use the TEFLJ guide (download) as a template.
  2. TEFLJ accepts scientific articles with the following requirements: The article is original and should be written in good English in a soft copy of 5000-7000-words length, typed in 11.5 Times New Roman, and in a single space.
  3. It is a result of scientific research, an implementation of theories, a discussion of current issues, or an analytical and critical study on linguistics, English literature, or English language teaching and learning.
  4. It is never published in any other publication.
  5. The title should be informative and brief with an abstract of 100-200 words length and keywords.
  6. The article should completely consist of: a title, writers' name and institution, email, abstract with keywords, introduction, research method, findings and discussion, conclusion, references, and attachment(s) if necessary.
  7. Quotations should be included in the body of text except for ones that exceed 5 lines at length. These should be typed in single space, 10 character indention, center position with no quotation marks.
  8. More detailed information on writing style and the referencing system is provided in the template.
  9. The author(s) should ensure that the manuscripts have passed through professional proofreaders to guarantee the absence of grammatical issues. 

Please note that any papers which fail to meet our requirements will be returned to the author for amendment. Only manuscripts which are submitted in the correct style will be considered by the Editors.

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Authors who publish in TEFLJ agree to the following terms: Authors retain copyright and grant the TEFLJ right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-SA 4.0) that allows others to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) the work for any purpose, even commercially with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in TEFLJ. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in TEFLJ. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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