Teaching English Language

Teaching English Language

Number of Volumes 18
Number of Issues 30
Number of Articles 391
Number of Contributors 704
Article View 592618
PDF Download 567,127
View Per Article 1515.65
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Number of Submissions 1,269
Rejected Submissions 792
Reject Rate 62
Accepted Submissions 161
Acceptance Rate 13
Time to Accept (Days) 314
Number of Indexing Databases 12
Number of Reviewers 249

Journal of Teaching English Language (TEL), formerly known as TELL, owned and published by Teaching English Language and Literature Society of Iran (TELLSI), is a double blind, peer reviewed, and open access (all content is freely available without charge to the users) international journal of applied linguistics. TEL Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0, CC-BY-NC International License. The journal was launched in June 2007. TEL, published biannually in both print and electronic formats, provides a forum devoted to the study of all issues of teaching and learning English as a foreign/second language. TEL publishes empirical articles of comparative or methodological interest to both scholars and teachers as well as students in applied linguistics and related disciplines, but not confined to, teaching and learning language skills and components, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse and pragmatics, EAP/ESP, assessment and evaluation, psychology of language education, CALL/MALL/RALL, etc. It encourages approaches to the study of language with methodological innovations. TEL aims to boost interdisciplinary cooperation among researchers interested in language and education by publishing high quality works which speak to a wide range of audience. TEL consistently publishes articles that are scientifically sound and relevant to an international academic or professional audience in the field. Thus, TEL invites all Iranian and foreign linguists, applied linguists, and teaching practitioners to contribute to the journal by submitting manuscripts on Applied Linguistics.

 

Although TEL is not member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), it is following COPE and complies with the ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws. While submitting, authors are kindly requested to complete the attached forms (i.e.,copyright transfer, ethics, and conflict of interest forms) and send a copy of the files to the editor-in-chief e-mail adress: h.soodmand@atu.ac.ir.  Also, please send a carbon copy of the files to the associate editor's e-mail address: ranjbar.nasser@gmail.com

* TEL follows the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition. 

∗ All the respected reviewers are kindly requested to submit a copy of reviewer letter to publons. Please use reviews@webofscience.com or edits@webofscience.com when sending review or editor record.

TEL is the Iranian journal in English Language education with Q1 ranking in ISC and A status in Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology (Portal of Scientific Journals). 

∗ TEL is Archived in Iranian Scientific Journals System: https://iranjournals.nlai.ir/handle/123456789/52877

∗ TEL is financially supported by the Teaching English Language and Literature Society of Iran (TELLSI) and does not charge authors any APCs.

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Current Issue: Volume 20, Issue 2, July 2026 

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Keywords Cloud

  • reading comprehension
  • EFL teachers
  • Motivation
  • EFL
  • Dynamic assessment
  • corrective feedback
  • Gender
  • language proficiency
  • Writing
  • academic writing
  • EFL learners
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Construct validity
  • Reliability
  • written corrective feedback
  • pragmatics
  • Needs Analysis
  • applied linguistics
  • Mediation
  • critical thinking
  • Iranian EFL learners
  • ESP
  • listening comprehension
  • critical discourse analysis
  • teacher efficacy
  • washback
  • fluency
  • Vocabulary
  • Iranian EFL Teachers
  • Engagement
  • teacher education
  • reflective teaching
  • Genre Analysis
  • attitudes
  • Attitude
  • Professional Identity
  • Persian
  • Strategies
  • genre
  • grammar
  • vocabulary learning
  • teacher cognition
  • culture
  • English teachers
  • Pragmatic awareness
  • writing performance
  • Validity
  • Oral Corrective Feedback
  • Professional Development
  • TEFL
  • Zone of Proximal Development
  • speaking
  • Sociocultural Theory
  • structural equation modeling
  • Research Article
  • Teacher Training
  • writing accuracy
  • Self-assessment
  • EFL writing
  • Speaking ability
  • interlanguage pragmatics
  • observation
  • Task-based language teaching
  • Validation
  • Assessment
  • scaffolding
  • complexity
  • Corpus
  • computer-mediated communication
  • tense
  • learner autonomy
  • Proficiency
  • identity
  • Focus on Form
  • C-test
  • Perception
  • speaking accuracy
  • self-efficacy
  • t-test
  • Grammatical knowledge
  • oral communication strategies
  • writing proficiency
  • L2
  • Perceptions
  • Grounded theory
  • Scientific publication
  • Feedback timing
  • Teaching Experience
  • Appraisal
  • form-focused instruction
  • EFL teacher
  • creativity
  • self-regulated learning
  • product writing
  • Language Assessment Literacy
  • productive vocabulary knowledge
  • portfolio assessment
  • learning potential score
  • Higher education
  • problems
  • Pragmalinguistic Learning
  • gender representation
  • move analysis
  • Multimedia
  • formal schemata
  • move
  • Missing Surface Inflection Hypothesis
  • communicative approach
  • EIL
  • consciousness-raising
  • English grammar
  • accuracy
  • speaking proficiency
  • blended learning
  • linguistic competence
  • preemptive
  • Pragmatic competence
  • retention
  • test performance
  • Reading
  • Genre-based Approach
  • task types
  • Core Reflection
  • Ideology
  • Teacher Immunity
  • Writing Ability
  • English as a foreign language
  • Grammatical Accuracy
  • textbook
  • EFL Context
  • English language teaching
  • storytelling
  • computerized dynamic assessment
  • Lexical Density
  • Preferences
  • institutional identity
  • Vocabulary Learning Strategies
  • Microgenetic Development
  • Critical Pedagogy
  • EFL students
  • intercultural communication
  • process writing
  • Learning styles
  • L2 acquisition
  • English for Academic Purposes
  • ChatGPT
  • academic resilience
  • concordancing
  • Academic Discourse
  • introversion
  • IELTS
  • Bilingualism
  • content schemata
  • Education
  • English teacher education
  • Artificial intelligence
  • learning strategies
  • reflection
  • attention
  • argumentative writing
  • Assessment
  • emotion
  • schema theory
  • Intercultural Communicative Competence
  • Perfectionism
  • collaborative learning
  • Interactional Competence
  • TOEFL
  • revision
  • interactional modifications
  • Foreign language enjoyment
  • language learning
  • Iranian EFL context
  • Educational Context
  • speaking strategies
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
  • ICT Integration
  • Study At Home
  • culture learning
  • FCE exam
  • form focus
  • Thesis
  • Private institutes
  • writing difficulties
  • direct and indirect feedback
  • Job Stress
  • Discoursal Patterns
  • Multiple Intelligences (MI)
  • English Achievement
  • Teaching Microstrategies
  • discriminant validation
  • Lexical awareness
  • academic research articles
  • social cognitive theory
  • Drama
  • Washback Effect
  • sub-moves
  • Logogenecy
  • vocabulary instruction, vocabulary knowledge
  • cultural pragmatic schema