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PublishinginAppliedLinguisticsJournalsAdvicefromaJournalEditor

PublishinginAppliedLinguisticsJournals:

AdvicefromaJournalEditor

Prof.GeorgeBraine

TheChineseUniversityofHongKong

Editor,AsianJournalofEnglishLanguageTeaching（AJELT）

RefereedandUnrefereedJournals

Refereedjournalssendoutarticlesfor“blindreview”（specialistsofthetopicwilljudgethesuitabilityofthearticleforpublication,withoutknowingthenameoftheauthor）.Atleasttworeviewersareused,andusuallytherearetworoundsofreviews.Prestigious.

UnrefereedjournalsacceptarticlesonthepreferencesoftheEditor.SeeTESOLQuarterly,39（4）,“PublicationcultureofforeignlanguageeducationjournalsinChina”byLingShi,WangWenyu,&XuJinwei.

UnrefereedJournalsinChinaidentifiedby

Ling,Wang,&Xu

ForeignLanguageTeachingandResearch

ForeignLanguageWorld

ForeignLanguageTeachingAbroad

ForeignLanguages

LinguisticsandAppliedLinguistics

ForeignLanguageResearch

Understandthepublicationprocess.

Choosetherightpublication.http:

//www.tesol.org/pubs/author/books/demystify.html

Startwithregionalpublications（RELCJournal,RALC,AJELT）.Moreprestigious（Western）journalspublishonlyabout10%ofthesubmissions.

Onestudycanleadtomorethanonepublication.Researchcanbereportedinonearticleandthepedagogicalapplicationsofthatresearchinanother.

Replicateresearch.Also,apublishedarticlesimilartotheoneyouplantowritecanprovideagoodmodel.

Donotusethesametitleasyourthesis.ReducelistofReferencesfromthesis.

Composeaneye-catchingtitle.

Useclearvisuals.

Followcloselydirectionsgivenin“Guide/NotestoContributors”.

Keepthecoverlettersimple.

MaketheEditorstaskeasier;editorsworkforfree.

Makethereviewers’taskeasier;they,too,workforfree.

BepreparedtobereviewedbyanauthorinyourlistofReferences.

Bepatient;reviewstaketime.

ReadEditor’slettercarefully.

Reviseandresubmit.

Whenrevising,don’ttrytopleaseeveryreviewer.

Ifreasonsaregiven,learnfromrejections.Commentsdon’tlooktooharshafterafewdays.

Finally:

Read,Read,Read.

Learnsomestatistics,orgethelpfromastatistician.

Beginyourpublicationswithabookreview.

Understandthe

publicationprocess.

Authorsubmitsmanuscripttoeditor.

Editorreadsmanuscript.

Editorchoosesreviewersandforwardsmanuscripttoreviewers.

Reviewerssendreviewstoeditor.

Editordecidestopublish,reject,orrequestrevisionofmanuscript,andinformsauthorofdecision.

Ifrevisionisrecommended,authorrevisesandresubmitsmanuscript.

Editorchoosesreviewers,includingoneoftheoriginalreviewers.

Reviewerssendreviewstoeditor.

Editormakesfinaldecisionandinformsauthor.

Choosethe

rightpublication.

www.tesol.orgpublications>SerialPublications>HowtoGetPublished

ComparativeChartofSerialPublications

ChartAbbreviations:

Issues/yr:

thenumberofissuespublishedineachcalendaryear.

Avg#pgs:

Averagenumberofpagesperissue

Solicited:

Doesthepublicationdirectlycontactspecificwritersforcontributions?

Unsolicited:

Canwriterssubmitmanuscriptstothepublicationwithoutbeingcontactedbytheeditor,andwilltheybeconsideredforpublication?

Refrd/Blnd:

Refereed/Blind.Refereedarticlesarereviewedbyexpertswhoevaluatewhetherornotthemanuscriptisacceptableforpublication.Blindrefereeingmeansthatthosewhoevaluatethemanuscriptdonotknowtheauthor’sidentity.

Comments:

Doesthesubmitterreceiveacopyofthereviewers’comments?

Reprint:

Doesthepublicationreprintarticlesthathavebeenpublishedinanotherpublication?

SbmAcknw:

SubmissionAcknowledged.Doesthesubmitterreceivenotificationfromthepublicationthatthesubmittedmanuscriptwasreceived?

AvgTmRv:

AverageTimeforReview.Thelengthoftimeittakesfromthetimeamanuscriptissubmitteduntiltheauthorisnotified.

AvgTmPub:

AverageTimeforPublication.Thelengthoftimeittakesfromthetimeamanuscriptisacceptedforpublicationuntilthearticleactuallyappears.

Style:

Thestylethatshouldbeusedwhenpreparingamanuscript.

Reviews:

Doesthejournalormagazinepublishreviewsofbooks,teachingmaterials,and/orothermaterial?

ChoosingtheRightPublication

Startwithregionalpublications（RELCJournal,RALC,AJELT,HKJAL）.Moreprestigious（Western）journalspublishonlyabout10%ofthesubmissions.

RegionalJournals-Refereed

RELCJournal-Singapore

ReviewofAppliedLinguisticsinChina（RALC）-China

HongKongJournalofAppliedLinguistics（HKJAL）–HongKongSAR

AsianJournalofEnglishLanguageTeaching（AJELT）–HongKongSAR

TEFLReporter–Hawaii,USA

Replicateresearch.Also,apublishedarticlesimilartotheoneyouplantowritecanprovideagoodmodel.

Onestudycanleadtomorethanonepublication.

Donotusethesametitleasyourthesis.Reducelistofreferencesfromthesis.

TitleofThesis

“AnInvestigationoftheWritingProcessesofChineseEFLLearners:

Subprocesses,strategiesandtheroleofthemothertongue”

Paper1

“CognitiveStrategiesAdoptedbyChineseStudentsWhenWritinginEnglish”

Paper2

“WhatStudents’WritingProcessesTell:

TowardsamodelofthecomposingprocessofChineseEFLlearners”

Paper3

“CognitiveStrategiesAdoptedinWritingbyStudentswithDifferentEnglishProficiencyLevels”

Composean

eye-catchingtitle.

Teachingacademicwriting:

Canwerelyoncontentareafaculty?

Writingproblemsofinternationalstudentsinthecollegecompositionclassroom

LanguagelearningstylesandteachingmethodologiesinthePRC

PromotinganoraldiscoursecommunityforAsianuniversitystudents

AserialorderingoflisteningcomprehensionstrategiesbyadvancedESLlearnersinHongKong:

Resultsofimplicationalscalingandprotocolanalysis

Whataretheydoingandhowaretheydoingit?

AstudyofpracticeopportunitiesinChineseEnglishTertiaryclassrooms

ProjectofComputer-MediatedandTask-basedCollegeEnglishTeachingReforminChina

LanguageofInstructioninHigherEducationinTurkey

ACorpus-basedEmpiricalStudyonInter-textualLexicalRepetition

PerceptionofShortEnglishSentencesbyJapaneseLearnersofEnglish:

AGatingStudy.

Writingupgroundedtheoryresearch:

increasingcredibilitythroughtheuseofthe“workedexample”

Progressionsingrammaractivities

DecreasingCognitiveLoadforNoviceEFLLearners-EffectsofQuestionandDescriptiveAdvanceOrganizerinFacilitatingEFLLearners’ComprehensionofanAnimation-basedContentLesson

Useclearvisuals.

Followcloselydirectionsgivenin“Guide/NotestoContributors”or“SubmissionGuidelines”.

SubmissionGuidelines

TheAsianJournalofEnglishLanguageTeaching（AJELT）encouragessubmissionofpreviouslyunpublishedarticlesthat

（1）linkESL/EFLtheory,research,andpedagogy,and

（2）relatemainlytoteachingEnglishtoAsiansattheuniversitylevel.Reviewsofbooksandmultimediaresourcesandreportsofongoingprojectsarealsowelcome.

Articles  Submissionsshouldbetypedandnomorethan20-pagesdouble-spacedinlength.Authorsshouldincludeacoverpagewiththefulltitleofthepaper,theauthor'sname,address,phonenumber,andifavailable,thefaxnumberande-mailaddress.Theauthor'snameshouldnotappearelsewhereinthearticle.Pleasesubmitthreecopiesofthearticle.

References  Inthetext,referencesshouldbecitedusingtheauthor'slastnameandyearofpublication.Ifquotationsareused,theseshouldadditionallyhavepagenumbers（Wong&Lam,1993,p.291）.ThereferencelistshouldbearrangedalphabeticallyfollowingtheguidelinesofthePublicationManualoftheAmericanPsychologicalAssociation（5thed.）.TESOLQuarterlyandEnglishforSpecificPurposesJournalfollowtheseguidelines.

Abstracts  Allarticlesshouldhaveanabstractbetween100and200wordsinlength.

TablesandFigures  Numericaltablescanbetypeset.Figures（graphs,illustrations,symbols）mustbesubmittedascameraready.

Keepthe

coverlettersimple.

DepartmentofEnglish

TheChineseUniversityofHongKong

July27,2005

Prof.…,Editor

JournalofSecondLanguageWriting

DepartmentofEnglish

UniversityofTennessee

Knoxville,TN37996-0430

USA

DearProf.…,

Iamenclosingamanuscripttitled“AcomparativestudyofL2writersonalocalareanetwork（LAN）andintraditionalclasses.”PleaseconsideritforpublicationintheJournalofSecondLanguageWriting.

Themanuscriptisnotunderconsiderationelsewhere.

Sincerelyyours,

…

Sir（Madam）:

Mypaperconsistsoffivesections,thefifthsectionof

whichismadeupofsixparts.Soherearetenparts

altogether.Ifpermitted,I’dratherthatthetenpartswere

publishedforseveraltimesindifferentpages.Forexample,

articleOne,ArticleTwo…ArticleTen.Why?

Thereisaset

ruleinouruniversitythateachpaperwillbegiventhree

points,themorethebetter.Ispecializeinlinguistics,idioms,

dictionaries,translationandgrammar.

Tobefrank,I’dliketobecomeyourfriendandkeepup

correspondencebetweenus,evensomedaymeetyou

eitherinChinaorinyourgreatcountry.

I’mwaitingforyourletter,

Thanksalot.

MaketheEditors’taskeasier;theyworkforfree.

Portfolioassessmentonstudents’writing

InChinesetertiaryEFLclassrooms

…Wang,Queen’sUniversity

…Li,CarletonUniversity

Contactauthor:

…Wang,Ph.D.Candidate

RoomA106,FacultyofEducation

Queen’sUniversity

Kingston,OntarioK7L3N6

Canada

Tel:

…-536-1013

Fax:

…-536-1013

E-mail:

…@qlink.queensu.ca

Biographicalstatement:

…WangisadoctoralcandidateincurriculumstudiesatFacultyofEducation,Queen’sUniversity.…Li