CALL FOR PAPERS
Asian Journal of English Language Teaching
Edited by Gwendolyn Gong and Ali Shehadeh
The Asian Journal of English Language Teaching (AJELT) publishes two types of review papers:
one type reviews published works, including academic and professional books, multimedia
resources and textbooks within the scope of AJELT. The other type reviews an academic or
professional theme, drawing on a number of published books and research articles, e.g., a theme
could be: Teaching English Writing Skills to Non-English Majors in Chinese Universities.
Authors should include a cover page with the full title of paper, the author’s name, e-mail address,
postal address, and phone number. Please follow the required reference style of the Publication
Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). The review papers should be sent as
e-mail attachments (Word documents) to AJELT Review editor, Lixian Jin (jin@dmu.ac.uk).
Reviewing Published Works (up to 1,000 words)
Authors are advised to send in their review papers including most of the following:
1. description and summary of the published work;
2. the special features of the work of interest to teachers, linguists or students in the region;
3. strengths and weaknesses of the work: a critical assessment of the work according to its stated
purposes, considering relevant professional and linguistic contexts, the theoretical orientation,
any significant implications, applications or omissions in the work;
4. reviewer’s personal reaction and comments (optional).
Review of published works should follow the general guidelines required by AJELT and include
the necessary details in the following format:
Doing Second Language Research
James Dean Brown & Theodores S. Rodgers.
Oxford University Press, 2002. xiv + 314 pp.
Reviewing an Academic or Professional Theme in ELT (up to 2,500 words)
Authors are advised to send in their review papers including most of these elements:
1. descriptive outline of the theme reviewed;
2. summary of the key development of the theme;
3. discussion of common features of the theme across several published items;
4. critical evaluation of strengths and weaknesses: a critical assessment of the published works
related to the theme, considering relevant professional and linguistic contexts, theoretical
orientations, any significant implications or applications in the theme;
5. reflection of possible impact and identification of trends and development.
Submissions of both reviews should include a brief biographical statement (in sentence form,
maximum 50 words).
It is understood that review manuscripts submitted to AJELT have not been previously published
and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Please send reviews to:
Lixian JIN
AJELT Review Editor
Speech & Language Therapy
De Montford University
H 0.19b Hawthorn Building
Leicester LE1 9BH, UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: jin@dmu.ac.uk