1. Journal of English Language (JEL), which started its publication life in 2023, is a scientific peer-reviewed journal published by Maltepe University School of Foreign Languages 2 (two) times a year in June and December.
2. The language of our journal is Turkish and English.
3. The other files that authors should upload to the system together with their manuscripts are as follows:
• Copyright Transfer Form signed by all authors, (Click here for ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT AND COPYRIGHT FORM)
• Ethics Committee Authorisation for studies where the research object is human (field research, in-depth interviews, etc.),
• Informed Consent Forms obtained from participants for studies whose research object is human (field research, in-depth interviews, etc.),
• Sample materials representing the research (questionnaire form, interview transcript, coding sheet, etc.) for studies whose research object is human (field research, in-depth interviews, etc.),
• Permission documents showing that the materials such as scales, visuals, etc. used in the studies were used with permission from the relevant person or institution (if any),
• Copyright Liability Form declaring that the works do not contain any content that infringes copyright.
4. Journal of English Language will include original research articles, book reviews, case reports, translations, conference papers and other types of studies in the fields of Language Education, Adult Education and Learning, Lifelong Learning.
5. Only one article by the same author will be evaluated in each publication period. If there is more than one submission, only one entry will be included in the evaluation process. This condition also applies to single- and multi-authored works. There are no exceptions to this condition.
6. Research submitted for publication in our journal must not have been previously submitted to another journal or published in another publication.
7. Full texts of articles presented at scientific meetings (congresses, symposia, etc.) can be submitted to the journal if they have not been published digitally or in print and the format/content of the article has been changed.
8. The number of articles to be published in each issue is determined by the editorial board and is limited in number. For this reason, the articles that are accepted at the end of the refereeing process are put on hold for the following issues, according to the acceptance dates. No commitment is made as to which issue the accepted articles will be published.
9. Articles can only be submitted to Journal of English Language via DergiPark system. You need a DergiPark user account and ORCID number to submit an article to the journal.
10. All manuscripts submitted to our journal are checked for originality both before the editorial board evaluation and after the referee evaluation process is completed and the manuscript is included in the publication process.
11. The upper limit of the acceptable similarity rate for the articles submitted to our journal is 20%. Studies exceeding this limit will be rejected without evaluation. For this reason, authors are required to determine the similarity rate before submitting their manuscripts to our journal. Since similarity programmes work according to certain parameters, if there is a difference between the similarity rate of the author and the similarity rate determined by the editorial board of the Journal of English Language, the rate of the Journal of English Language will be taken as basis.
12. Since manuscripts that require revisions during the review process are resubmitted to the referees regardless of the type of revision (minor/major), all revisions required for the manuscript should be marked in red and uploaded as such. For manuscripts not uploaded in this way, the peer review will be terminated and the manuscript will be returned to the author.
13. If authors use the reviewer panel as a means of personal communication or disclose their anonymised identities, their research will be rejected as an ethical violation and they will not be allowed to upload their work to any issue of the Journal of English Language.