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International Journal of TESOL Studies

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:

 

  1. material development and evaluation 
  2. translation and interpreting studies
  3. curriculum design and development
  4. professional preparation and development
  5. English for academic purposes
  6. discourse analysis/genre analysis
  7. language and culture
  8. language and society
  9. language testing and assessment
  10. language planning and policy
  11. multilingualism and multilingual education
  12. information technology and language education
  13. critical thinking and language education

 

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 Conference 2025

Download the full CFP here.

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 in Hong Kong. 

 

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.

 

Keynote Speakers

Gavin Bui, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong

Lixian Jin, City University of Macau

Luxin Yang, Beijing Foreign Studies University

Marina Dodigovic, University of Slavonski Brod

Mark Teng Feng, Macau Polytechnic University

Yuen Yi Lo, The University of Hong Kong

 

Publication Opportunities

ITU 2025 provides full publication opportunities for all attendees. First, all accepted abstracts will be included in Proceedings of International TESOL Union Conference 2025 (ISBN: 978-1-915835-00-0) published by International TESOL Union.

 

Second, all submitted full papers, after reviewing, will be included in one of the following three venues:  

  1. International Journal of TESOL Studies (Scopus-indexed) conference special issue
  2. TESOL Communications conference special issue
  3. Edited conference volume (ISBN: 978-1-915835-01-7)

 

Note. If you would like to share your research and present, you will need to submit an abstract. If you would consider publishing with us, no matter whether you will present or not, you will just send in your full papers. Of course, participants are also welcome to attend the conference without submitting anything.

 

Abstract/Paper Submissions

An abstract needs to be about 300 words and clearly indicates the objectives, methods, and (preliminary) results where appropriate. Format the email subject line as "ITU2025+Author Name" and send the abstracts/full papers to info@tesolunion.org.

 

Important Dates

Abstract submission due: May 15, 2025

Notification of abstract acceptance: May 25, 2025

Full Paper Submission: July 15, 2025

 

Registration Fee (lunch included)

Early bird fee (by June 15, 2025): 100USD/750HKD/700RMB

Regular fee: 150USD/1100HKD/1000RMB

 

Contacts

All questions about submissions, registrations and other conference-related issues should be emailed to Dr Kevin Liu (info@tesolunion.org), International TESOL Union.