Teaching English Language

Teaching English Language

Number of Volumes 18
Number of Issues 30
Number of Articles 388
Number of Contributors 697
Article View 589987
PDF Download 565,150
View Per Article 1520.59
PDF Download Per Article 1456.57
 
Number of Submissions 1,269
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 248

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