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International Journal of TESOL Studies (IJTS) is a fully peer-reviewed international journal published by International TESOL Union and indexed in Scopus. IJTS publishes both original empirical research and systematic review studies on teaching and learning English as a second and foreign language at all education levels. It is broadly concerned with linguistics applied to education and welcomes contributions in, but not limited to, the following areas:
IJTS is an Open Access journal and all published papers are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles in this journal, or to use them for any other lawful purpose. Authors retain copyrights and full publishing rights without restrictions.
There are no article processing charges or submission charges applicable to authors.
International TESOL Union (ITU) and The Department of English at the School of Humanities and Social Science, Hang Seng University of Hong Kong are pleased to announce that the International TESOL Union Conference on Trailblazing Advances in Applied Linguistics (TAAL) will be held on August 15-16, 2025.
The ITU 2025 conference welcomes proposals in all areas of applied linguistics and TESOL. We are particularly interested in innovative and rigorous topics that demonstrate strong methodological and/or theoretical approaches to understand applied linguistics and TESOL. Additionally, we encourage postgraduate students who are nearing completion of their theses to submit proposals as well. Frontline TESOL teachers are equally welcome to participate.
Submission Guidelines
Please submit abstracts of a maximum of 300 words at info@tesolunion.org. Each proposal should clearly indicate the objectives, methods, and (preliminary) results where appropriate. Format the email subject line as "ITU2025+Author Name".
Publication Opportunities
All accepted abstracts will be published in Proceedings of International TESOL Union Conference 2025 (ISBN: 978-1-915835-00-0).
All submitted full papers will be published in one of the following three venues:
1. International Journal of TESOL Studies conference special issue
2. TESOL Communications conference special issue
3. Conference edited volume (ISBN: 978-1-915835-01-7)
Important Dates
Deadline of abstract submission: 8 May, 2025
Notification of abstract acceptance: 15 May, 2025
Early bird registration till: 28 May, 2025
Submission of full papers due: 28 June, 2025
Organizing Committee
Amy Kong, The Hangsang University of Hong Kong, HK SAR
Maggie Ma, The Hangsang University of Hong Kong, HKSAR
Xinghua Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China