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  • About TESL-EJ
  • Vols. 1-15 (1994-2012)
    • Volume 1
      • Volume 1, Number 1
      • Volume 1, Number 2
      • Volume 1, Number 3
      • Volume 1, Number 4
    • Volume 2
      • Volume 2, Number 1 — March 1996
      • Volume 2, Number 2 — September 1996
      • Volume 2, Number 3 — January 1997
      • Volume 2, Number 4 — June 1997
    • Volume 3
      • Volume 3, Number 1 — November 1997
      • Volume 3, Number 2 — March 1998
      • Volume 3, Number 3 — September 1998
      • Volume 3, Number 4 — January 1999
    • Volume 4
      • Volume 4, Number 1 — July 1999
      • Volume 4, Number 2 — November 1999
      • Volume 4, Number 3 — May 2000
      • Volume 4, Number 4 — December 2000
    • Volume 5
      • Volume 5, Number 1 — April 2001
      • Volume 5, Number 2 — September 2001
      • Volume 5, Number 3 — December 2001
      • Volume 5, Number 4 — March 2002
    • Volume 6
      • Volume 6, Number 1 — June 2002
      • Volume 6, Number 2 — September 2002
      • Volume 6, Number 3 — December 2002
      • Volume 6, Number 4 — March 2003
    • Volume 7
      • Volume 7, Number 1 — June 2003
      • Volume 7, Number 2 — September 2003
      • Volume 7, Number 3 — December 2003
      • Volume 7, Number 4 — March 2004
    • Volume 8
      • Volume 8, Number 1 — June 2004
      • Volume 8, Number 2 — September 2004
      • Volume 8, Number 3 — December 2004
      • Volume 8, Number 4 — March 2005
    • Volume 9
      • Volume 9, Number 1 — June 2005
      • Volume 9, Number 2 — September 2005
      • Volume 9, Number 3 — December 2005
      • Volume 9, Number 4 — March 2006
    • Volume 10
      • Volume 10, Number 1 — June 2006
      • Volume 10, Number 2 — September 2006
      • Volume 10, Number 3 — December 2006
      • Volume 10, Number 4 — March 2007
    • Volume 11
      • Volume 11, Number 1 — June 2007
      • Volume 11, Number 2 — September 2007
      • Volume 11, Number 3 — December 2007
      • Volume 11, Number 4 — March 2008
    • Volume 12
      • Volume 12, Number 1 — June 2008
      • Volume 12, Number 2 — September 2008
      • Volume 12, Number 3 — December 2008
      • Volume 12, Number 4 — March 2009
    • Volume 13
      • Volume 13, Number 1 — June 2009
      • Volume 13, Number 2 — September 2009
      • Volume 13, Number 3 — December 2009
      • Volume 13, Number 4 — March 2010
    • Volume 14
      • Volume 14, Number 1 — June 2010
      • Volume 14, Number 2 – September 2010
      • Volume 14, Number 3 – December 2010
      • Volume 14, Number 4 – March 2011
    • Volume 15
      • Volume 15, Number 1 — June 2011
      • Volume 15, Number 2 — September 2011
      • Volume 15, Number 3 — December 2011
      • Volume 15, Number 4 — March 2012
  • Vols. 16-Current
    • Volume 16
      • Volume 16, Number 1 — June 2012
      • Volume 16, Number 2 — September 2012
      • Volume 16, Number 3 — December 2012
      • Volume 16, Number 4 – March 2013
    • Volume 17
      • Volume 17, Number 1 – May 2013
      • Volume 17, Number 2 – August 2013
      • Volume 17, Number 3 – November 2013
      • Volume 17, Number 4 – February 2014
    • Volume 18
      • Volume 18, Number 1 – May 2014
      • Volume 18, Number 2 – August 2014
      • Volume 18, Number 3 – November 2014
      • Volume 18, Number 4 – February 2015
    • Volume 19
      • Volume 19, Number 1 – May 2015
      • Volume 19, Number 2 – August 2015
      • Volume 19, Number 3 – November 2015
      • Volume 19, Number 4 – February 2016
    • Volume 20
      • Volume 20, Number 1 – May 2016
      • Volume 20, Number 2 – August 2016
      • Volume 20, Number 3 – November 2016
      • Volume 20, Number 4 – February 2017
    • Volume 21
      • Volume 21, Number 1 – May 2017
      • Volume 21, Number 2 – August 2017
      • Volume 21, Number 3 – November 2017
      • Volume 21, Number 4 – February 2018
    • Volume 22
      • Volume 22, Number 1 – May 2018
      • Volume 22, Number 2 – August 2018
      • Volume 22, Number 3 – November 2018
      • Volume 22, Number 4 – February 2019
    • Volume 23
      • Volume 23, Number 1 – May 2019
      • Volume 23, Number 2 – August 2019
      • Volume 23, Number 3 – November 2019
      • Volume 23, Number 4 – February 2020
    • Volume 24
      • Volume 24, Number 1 – May 2020
      • Volume 24, Number 2 – August 2020
      • Volume 24, Number 3 – November 2020
      • Volume 24, Number 4 – February 2021
    • Volume 25
      • Volume 25, Number 1 – May 2021
      • Volume 25, Number 2 – August 2021
      • Volume 25, Number 3 – November 2021
      • Volume 25, Number 4 – February 2022
    • Volume 26
      • Volume 26, Number 1 – May 2022
      • Volume 26, Number 2 – August 2022
      • Volume 26, Number 3 – November 2022
  • Books
  • How to Submit
    • Submission Procedures
    • Ethical Standards for Authors and Reviewers
    • TESL-EJ Style Sheet for Authors
    • TESL-EJ Tips for Authors
    • Book Review Policy
    • Media Review Policy
    • APA Style Guide
  • TESL-EJ Editorial Board

About TESL-EJ

Introduction

TESL-EJ began as the brainchild of a group of scholars who saw the need for a freely-distributed electronic academic journal. It has been an “open access journal” since the beginning — even before the phrase “open access journal” had been invented. It has grown to become an internationally-recognized source of ESL and EFL information for people in scores of countries.

All content is freely available without charge to the readers or institutions. Users are allowed to download and share the content published by TESL-EJ as long as they credit the authors and the journal appropriately and do not change the content in any way or use them commercially, “CC BY-NC-ND” (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs). This is in accordance with the Creative Commons definition of “open access.” Authors retain copyright to their own articles and have full publishing rights if they wish to post or print it elsewhere. Please attribute TESL-EJ as the original source.

Our first issue was published in the spring of 1994, and contains an overview article (http://tesl-ej.org/ej01/a.1.html) by Editorial Board member Roland Sussex. Since then, we have published a wide array of articles and reviews, linking authors and readers on an international scale.

TESL-EJ is fully refereed–each article undergoes an initial review by the editor. If the editor decides that it fits within the guidelines outlined, then it is further reviewed by at least two knowledgeable scholars.

We hope to broaden our range of participation. We invite you to submit an article for consideration, to review a book, software, or website, or to serve as a reviewer for manuscripts that are submitted. If you cannot help in this way, we hope that you will share with us the mission of making TESL-EJ known throughout the world as a dynamic and reliable source of research and information in English as a Second or Foreign Language.

Frequency of Publication

The Journal is published quarterly, in February, May, August and November of each year.  Once accepted, articles will be published in the next issue following an 8-week preparation period. Authors can expect a period of 3-4 months from submission to acceptance, assuming that no more than minor revisions are required.

Submission Rate

Below are the submission rates for recent years on the left. This excludes invited and special issue articles which are handled separately. The number published includes articles that may have been submitted in the previous year. On the right, we have displayed the statistics generated by our OJS submissions software, showing our editorial activity during 2022. The figures on the two tables var somewhat since a paper accepted in one year might find its way an issue in the following year due to issues on the author’s side.

Year Submissions Published Pct.
2017 125 18 14%
2018 131 21 15%
2019 133 22 16%
2020 219 33 15%
2021 358 42 12%
2022 302 32 11%
Editorial Statistics for Year 2022
Submissions Received 302
Submissions Accepted 35
Submissions Declined 289
 Submissions Declined (Desk Reject) 228
 Submissions Declined (After Review) 61
Submissions Published 41
Days to First Editorial Decision 4
 Days to Accept 179
 Days to Reject 7
Acceptance Rate 5%
Rejection Rate 95%
 Desk Reject Rate 83%
 After Review Reject Rate 12%

Fees

TESL-EJ does not charge a fee for publication. If you decide to submit to another journal and not TESL-EJ, you should be aware of the rise of predatory journals charging large fees for publication without appropriate quality control. PredatoryJournals.com keeps an up-to-date list of such predatory publishers. Read before you submit to another journal, especially if they are asking for a fee.

Following TESL-EJ

Look for us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=60252361538&ref=ts

and Twitter [Follow teslej], http://twitter.com/teslej.

Submissions

See the separate menu heading with full details of our submission procedures.

The Board of Reviewers

Scholars may join the “Board of Reviewers” after they have submitted at least three reviews of acceptable quality within a period of two years. To become a reviewer, register on the TESL-EJ submissions website ticking the box to agree to review manuscripts and then enter your areas of specialization.  Please specify your interests using narrow terms such “feedback”, “motivation”, “autonomy” or “anxiety” rather than broader terms such as “testing”, “psycholinguistics” or “ESL”. See our guidance for reviewers (PDF).

Citing TESL-EJ

Please use the paginated pdf versions when citing TESL-EJ articles. For the first eight volumes, the html version is the definitive edition. Labels within the text, such as [-1-], are used to indicate the end of each page.

Each article is paginated independently. To cite page 56 of the Sussex article of issue 1.1, for example, we recommend the following formats:

APA:

In text: Sussex (1994, p. 3)
In bibliography: Sussex, R. (1994). TESL-EJ: Conception and potential of an electronic journal. TESL-EJ, 1(1). https://tesl-ej.org/ej01/a.1.html.

Archives

TESL-EJ is indexed by LLBA, ERIC and EBSCO and SCOPUS, among others. You can view TESL-EJ’s standing on Scimago below.

SCImago Journal & Country Rank

The LOCKSS system has permission to collect, preserve, and serve this open access Archival Unit.

Also, see our listing of citations in Google Scholar here.

Unethical Conduct

We regret that this page has had to be placed on our site and hope that there will be no more instances like these.

Advertising & “Guest Contributions”

TESL-EJ does not accept advertising nor do we publish articles offered by commercial concerns.

Comments & Queries:

Please address any queries concerning the formatting of pages, broken links, etc. to the Technical Editor. Please ‘cc’ any comments to the editor, as well. Note that we do not fix broken links in article in earlier issues.

Editor: Thomas Robb <editor@tesl-ej.org>
Managing Editor: Seyed Abdollah Shahrokni <managingeditor@tesl-ej.org>
Technical Editor: Aaron Campbell <technicaleditor@tesl-ej.org>

Physical Address:

TESL-EJ Publications
C/o M. Sokolik
119 Wheeler Hall
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2500 USA

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