Teaching English Language

Teaching English Language

Number of Volumes 18
Number of Issues 30
Number of Articles 387
Number of Contributors 696
Article View 583935
PDF Download 561,678
View Per Article 1508.88
PDF Download Per Article 1451.36
 
Number of Submissions 1,266
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

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