Teaching English Language

Teaching English Language

Number of Volumes 18
Number of Issues 30
Number of Articles 383
Number of Contributors 687
Article View 572630
PDF Download 555,030
View Per Article 1495.12
PDF Download Per Article 1449.16
Number of Submissions 1,260
Rejected Submissions 783
Reject Rate 62
Accepted Submissions 160
Acceptance Rate 13
Time to Accept (Days) 312
Number of Indexing Databases 12
Number of Reviewers 247

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
  • Dynamic assessment
  • corrective feedback
  • EFL
  • language proficiency
  • academic writing
  • Gender
  • Construct validity
  • EFL learners
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Reliability
  • Writing
  • written corrective feedback
  • ESP
  • pragmatics
  • Mediation
  • applied linguistics
  • Needs Analysis
  • listening comprehension
  • Iranian EFL learners
  • critical discourse analysis
  • teacher efficacy
  • Attitude
  • English teachers
  • fluency
  • washback
  • Iranian EFL Teachers
  • Engagement
  • culture
  • Genre Analysis
  • teacher cognition
  • critical thinking
  • attitudes
  • Persian
  • genre
  • Strategies
  • vocabulary learning
  • teacher education
  • grammar
  • reflective teaching
  • self-efficacy
  • Speaking ability
  • Professional Development
  • structural equation modeling
  • Vocabulary
  • Self-assessment
  • Validity
  • Zone of Proximal Development
  • observation
  • Sociocultural Theory
  • Teacher Training
  • Oral Corrective Feedback
  • TEFL
  • speaking
  • interlanguage pragmatics
  • speaking accuracy
  • EFL writing
  • Focus on Form
  • Pragmatic awareness
  • writing accuracy
  • learner autonomy
  • Professional Identity
  • computer-mediated communication
  • t-test
  • Task-based language teaching
  • Corpus
  • Assessment
  • identity
  • scaffolding
  • Research Article
  • Perception
  • Proficiency
  • complexity
  • C-test
  • Validation
  • tense
  • accuracy
  • Missing Surface Inflection Hypothesis
  • oral communication strategies
  • EIL
  • Genre-based Approach
  • product writing
  • Multimedia
  • Grounded theory
  • L2
  • Scientific publication
  • creativity
  • formal schemata
  • move
  • EFL teacher
  • self-regulated learning
  • Language Assessment Literacy
  • Perfectionism
  • portfolio assessment
  • form-focused instruction
  • blended learning
  • learning potential score
  • problems
  • move analysis
  • Feedback timing
  • Perceptions
  • writing performance
  • Appraisal
  • Pragmalinguistic Learning
  • gender representation
  • speaking proficiency
  • consciousness-raising
  • Grammatical knowledge
  • communicative approach
  • writing proficiency
  • Pragmatic competence
  • task types
  • linguistic competence
  • revision
  • preemptive
  • Core Reflection
  • TOEFL
  • EFL Context
  • Grammatical Accuracy
  • English as a foreign language
  • Ideology
  • Reading
  • English grammar
  • computerized dynamic assessment
  • Writing Ability
  • Vocabulary Learning Strategies
  • storytelling
  • Bilingualism
  • Education
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Critical Pedagogy
  • Microgenetic Development
  • Preferences
  • EFL students
  • intercultural communication
  • content schemata
  • Learning styles
  • Iranian EFL context
  • L2 acquisition
  • academic resilience
  • English for Academic Purposes
  • concordancing
  • Academic Discourse
  • introversion
  • process writing
  • English teacher education
  • ChatGPT
  • argumentative writing
  • schema theory
  • Assessment
  • Lexical Density
  • institutional identity
  • learning strategies
  • Foreign language enjoyment
  • reflection
  • English language teaching
  • attention
  • textbook
  • collaborative learning
  • test performance
  • interactional modifications
  • Interactional Competence
  • Intercultural Communicative Competence
  • Teacher Immunity
  • IELTS
  • language learning
  • productive vocabulary knowledge
  • retention
  • emotional regulation
  • Nunan’s (1999) classification of tasks
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
  • teaching challenges
  • type of language form
  • planning condition
  • English
  • Educational Context
  • speaking strategies
  • ICT Integration
  • Study At Home
  • culture learning
  • direct and indirect feedback
  • FCE exam
  • form focus
  • Thesis
  • Private institutes
  • Multiple Intelligences (MI)
  • writing difficulties
  • Job Stress
  • Discoursal Patterns
  • discriminant validation
  • English Achievement
  • academic research articles
  • Lexical awareness
  • vocabulary instruction, vocabulary knowledge
  • cultural pragmatic schema
  • social cognitive theory
  • Drama
  • sub-moves