Teaching English Language

Teaching English Language

Number of Volumes 18
Number of Issues 30
Number of Articles 383
Number of Contributors 687
Article View 574310
PDF Download 556,484
View Per Article 1499.5
PDF Download Per Article 1452.96
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
  • Reliability
  • EFL learners
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Writing
  • Gender
  • written corrective feedback
  • Construct validity
  • ESP
  • pragmatics
  • Mediation
  • applied linguistics
  • Needs Analysis
  • Iranian EFL learners
  • critical discourse analysis
  • listening comprehension
  • Genre Analysis
  • Iranian EFL Teachers
  • English teachers
  • teacher education
  • Attitude
  • attitudes
  • fluency
  • Engagement
  • teacher cognition
  • culture
  • reflective teaching
  • teacher efficacy
  • Strategies
  • genre
  • washback
  • critical thinking
  • vocabulary learning
  • Persian
  • grammar
  • EFL writing
  • self-efficacy
  • speaking accuracy
  • Professional Development
  • Validity
  • structural equation modeling
  • TEFL
  • Self-assessment
  • observation
  • Sociocultural Theory
  • Teacher Training
  • Vocabulary
  • speaking
  • Research Article
  • Zone of Proximal Development
  • complexity
  • interlanguage pragmatics
  • writing accuracy
  • Oral Corrective Feedback
  • Pragmatic awareness
  • Speaking ability
  • Focus on Form
  • Perception
  • Assessment
  • Corpus
  • computer-mediated communication
  • t-test
  • Validation
  • identity
  • tense
  • Task-based language teaching
  • scaffolding
  • Professional Identity
  • learner autonomy
  • Proficiency
  • C-test
  • speaking proficiency
  • writing performance
  • Genre-based Approach
  • EIL
  • product writing
  • Grounded theory
  • Feedback timing
  • Scientific publication
  • Appraisal
  • formal schemata
  • move
  • EFL teacher
  • Interactional Competence
  • self-regulated learning
  • Language Assessment Literacy
  • portfolio assessment
  • Perfectionism
  • form-focused instruction
  • blended learning
  • problems
  • Multimedia
  • L2
  • Perceptions
  • move analysis
  • learning potential score
  • gender representation
  • Pragmalinguistic Learning
  • creativity
  • writing proficiency
  • communicative approach
  • Grammatical knowledge
  • consciousness-raising
  • Missing Surface Inflection Hypothesis
  • Pragmatic competence
  • preemptive
  • linguistic competence
  • English grammar
  • TOEFL
  • Core Reflection
  • Reading
  • Ideology
  • textbook
  • oral communication strategies
  • EFL Context
  • revision
  • accuracy
  • productive vocabulary knowledge
  • Vocabulary Learning Strategies
  • Writing Ability
  • reflection
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Education
  • Lexical Density
  • Iranian EFL context
  • Preferences
  • Critical Pedagogy
  • content schemata
  • EFL students
  • Microgenetic Development
  • Bilingualism
  • English for Academic Purposes
  • academic resilience
  • L2 acquisition
  • introversion
  • concordancing
  • Learning styles
  • English teacher education
  • process writing
  • Academic Discourse
  • language learning
  • ChatGPT
  • schema theory
  • Foreign language enjoyment
  • learning strategies
  • institutional identity
  • storytelling
  • attention
  • argumentative writing
  • English language teaching
  • computerized dynamic assessment
  • IELTS
  • English as a foreign language
  • collaborative learning
  • test performance
  • interactional modifications
  • Assessment
  • Teacher Immunity
  • Intercultural Communicative Competence
  • intercultural communication
  • Grammatical Accuracy
  • retention
  • task types
  • Meta ethnography
  • Nunan’s (1999) classification of tasks
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
  • type of language form
  • teaching challenges
  • planning condition
  • English
  • Educational Context
  • speaking strategies
  • ICT Integration
  • Study At Home
  • culture learning
  • direct and indirect feedback
  • FCE exam
  • form focus
  • Multiple Intelligences (MI)
  • Private institutes
  • Thesis
  • Lexical awareness
  • Job Stress
  • Discoursal Patterns
  • discriminant validation
  • academic research articles
  • English Achievement
  • writing difficulties
  • vocabulary instruction, vocabulary knowledge
  • meaning recognition
  • social cognitive theory
  • Drama
  • sub-moves