Teaching English Language

Teaching English Language

Number of Volumes 18
Number of Issues 30
Number of Articles 385
Number of Contributors 690
Article View 578145
PDF Download 557,841
View Per Article 1501.68
PDF Download Per Article 1448.94
 
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
  • academic writing
  • language proficiency
  • Construct validity
  • EFL learners
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Writing
  • Reliability
  • Gender
  • written corrective feedback
  • ESP
  • Mediation
  • pragmatics
  • Needs Analysis
  • applied linguistics
  • listening comprehension
  • Iranian EFL learners
  • critical discourse analysis
  • critical thinking
  • Engagement
  • reflective teaching
  • fluency
  • English teachers
  • culture
  • Attitude
  • teacher efficacy
  • teacher cognition
  • Iranian EFL Teachers
  • Genre Analysis
  • attitudes
  • teacher education
  • Persian
  • vocabulary learning
  • genre
  • Strategies
  • grammar
  • washback
  • EFL writing
  • interlanguage pragmatics
  • Sociocultural Theory
  • Teacher Training
  • TEFL
  • Vocabulary
  • Zone of Proximal Development
  • Self-assessment
  • observation
  • Validity
  • Oral Corrective Feedback
  • Speaking ability
  • Pragmatic awareness
  • speaking
  • complexity
  • speaking accuracy
  • writing accuracy
  • writing performance
  • Professional Development
  • Focus on Form
  • Corpus
  • computer-mediated communication
  • Professional Identity
  • t-test
  • Task-based language teaching
  • Assessment
  • identity
  • tense
  • scaffolding
  • Research Article
  • learner autonomy
  • Perception
  • C-test
  • self-efficacy
  • Validation
  • Proficiency
  • structural equation modeling
  • oral communication strategies
  • Genre-based Approach
  • move analysis
  • EIL
  • problems
  • Multimedia
  • Grounded theory
  • L2
  • creativity
  • EFL teacher
  • formal schemata
  • Scientific publication
  • self-regulated learning
  • Perfectionism
  • Language Assessment Literacy
  • portfolio assessment
  • product writing
  • form-focused instruction
  • blended learning
  • learning potential score
  • Feedback timing
  • Perceptions
  • Pragmalinguistic Learning
  • Higher education
  • gender representation
  • move
  • Appraisal
  • writing proficiency
  • consciousness-raising
  • communicative approach
  • speaking proficiency
  • Missing Surface Inflection Hypothesis
  • Pragmatic competence
  • English grammar
  • preemptive
  • revision
  • retention
  • accuracy
  • Core Reflection
  • collaborative learning
  • TOEFL
  • EFL Context
  • textbook
  • Grammatical Accuracy
  • English as a foreign language
  • Reading
  • Grammatical knowledge
  • computerized dynamic assessment
  • reflection
  • Vocabulary Learning Strategies
  • storytelling
  • Bilingualism
  • Education
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Preferences
  • Critical Pedagogy
  • content schemata
  • Learning styles
  • EFL students
  • Microgenetic Development
  • Iranian EFL context
  • L2 acquisition
  • academic resilience
  • English for Academic Purposes
  • concordancing
  • Academic Discourse
  • introversion
  • ChatGPT
  • process writing
  • English teacher education
  • language learning
  • schema theory
  • argumentative writing
  • Lexical Density
  • institutional identity
  • Foreign language enjoyment
  • attention
  • English language teaching
  • Writing Ability
  • learning strategies
  • IELTS
  • interactional modifications
  • Ideology
  • Intercultural Communicative Competence
  • test performance
  • Interactional Competence
  • Teacher Immunity
  • Assessment
  • intercultural communication
  • task types
  • linguistic competence
  • productive vocabulary knowledge
  • type of language form
  • teaching challenges
  • planning condition
  • Educational Context
  • speaking strategies
  • culture learning
  • ICT Integration
  • Study At Home
  • FCE exam
  • form focus
  • Lexical awareness
  • direct and indirect feedback
  • Private institutes
  • Thesis
  • Multiple Intelligences (MI)
  • Job Stress
  • Discoursal Patterns
  • discriminant validation
  • writing difficulties
  • academic research articles
  • English Achievement
  • social cognitive theory
  • Drama
  • sub-moves
  • Logogenecy
  • construct-underrepresentation
  • cultural pragmatic schema
  • Washback Effect
  • Metalinguistic Feedback