Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Focus

Jambura Journal of English Teaching and Literature (JJETL) aims to advance research and practice in English language education and English literary studies, particularly in English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts. The journal publishes original research articles, literature reviews, and critical analyses that contribute to theory, pedagogy, or methodology. JJETL serves researchers, teachers, teacher educators, and university students in Indonesia and internationally.

Scope

JJETL welcomes manuscripts in the following areas:

  • English language teaching and learning: teaching methods, classroom interaction, learning media and technology, teacher education and professional development
  • Language testing and assessment: test development, classroom and formative assessment, evaluation of learning outcomes
  • Curriculum and materials development in ELT: curriculum design, textbook analysis and evaluation, instructional materials
  • Applied linguistics: second language acquisition, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis (including digital and media discourse), and English for specific purposes
  • Literary and cultural studies: analysis of literary works in English and the use of literature in language education
  • Translation studies: translation quality and accuracy, translation strategies, and translation teaching

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

JJETL uses double-blind peer review: the identities of authors and reviewers are concealed from each other.

  1. In the initial screening, the editor checks scope, adherence to the guidelines, and similarity (Turnitin). Manuscripts that do not meet the requirements are returned or rejected without review.
  2. Each manuscript is reviewed by at least two independent reviewers with relevant expertise. Reviewers assess originality, contribution to the field, methodological rigour, clarity, and the use of current references, using the JJETL review form. 
  3. Based on the reviewers' reports, the handling editor decides: Accept, Minor Revision, Major Revision, or Reject. 
  4. Authors revise within 2 weeks (minor) or 4 weeks (major). Revised manuscripts may be sent back to the reviewers.
  5. The Editor in Chief makes the final publication decision. 
 

 

Publication Frequency

JJETL is published twice a year, in April and October, with at least five articles in each issue. Submissions are accepted throughout the year. Each manuscript goes through initial editorial screening, double-blind peer review, revision, and production before publication. Accepted manuscripts are scheduled for the next available issue, depending on the completion of the review and revision process.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...