Focus and Scope
The International Journal of Research on English Teaching and Applied Linguistics (IJRETAL) is a peer reviewed, open access journal published twice a year by the Department of English Education, Faculty of Tarbiyah, Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Bone, Indonesia. The journal publishes research that advances understanding of how English is taught, learned, assessed, and used, with particular attention to settings in which English is a foreign or additional language.
IJRETAL welcomes empirical studies, methodologically explicit review articles, and conceptual contributions that carry clear implications for classroom practice, teacher education, assessment, or language policy. The editors give priority to work that is theoretically grounded, transparent about its methods, and specific about what it adds to existing knowledge. Studies situated in Indonesian and other Southeast Asian contexts are particularly welcome, provided the argument is framed so that it speaks to an international readership rather than to a single institution.
The scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:
- classroom discourse, classroom interaction, and teaching methodology
- curriculum design, syllabus development, and materials development, adaptation, and evaluation
- teacher education, teacher identity, and continuing professional development
- language assessment, testing, and programme evaluation
- needs analysis, English for specific purposes, and English for academic purposes
- second language acquisition and language learning psychology in instructed settings
- reading, literacy, and the development of academic writing and speaking
- technology in language education, including digital literacy and artificial intelligence literacy
- discourse analysis, pragmatics, and the sociolinguistics of English
- language policy, language planning, and the position of English in education systems
The journal does not consider manuscripts that report routine classroom activity without an analytic argument, descriptive surveys without a theoretical framework, or studies whose data cannot support the claims they make. Manuscripts outside the scope are returned to the authors at the screening stage.
