Authors' Guidelines :

Submission Guidelines

IJITAL accepts submissions of unpublished articles from ELT community (existing and aspiring ELT practitioners, ELT researchers, ELT administrators, and ELT employers) on a wide range of topics concerning methods and principles of language teaching in general and innovations in ELT activities, strategies, and techniques in particular.

Manuscript submissions are welcome during (1st January to 15th February), (1st April to 15th May), (1st July to 15th August), or (1st October to 15th November). Authors are requested to follow any of the four aforementioned timeline.

All the manuscripts should be prepared in MS Word (Word Document or Rich text format) type and submitted via e-mail: editor@ijital.org by mentioning the name of the first author in the subject line.

The submission of manuscript can also be made through article upload option available on the IJITAL homepage.

Subsequent to your submission, if you do not get receiving notice within 24 hours, you kindly report it via email: doctorskj@gmail.com

Authors must submit their articles in English (American or British version of English).

Processing Guidelines :

Normally, IJITAL confirms the receiving of any manuscript within 24 hours via email to the author(s).

After receiving the manuscript, IJITAL sends it to the reviewers who are specialized in TESOL and applied linguistics with at least five years of teaching and research experience.

IJITAL takes about two to three weeks to forward review comments to the respective author(s).

IJITAL does not reveal the identity of authors to reviewers during entire review process.

Subsequent to receiving review comments and feedback from the reviewers, IJITAL consults its editorial board to ascertain whether the manuscript can be published as a journal article or not.

If a manuscript is approved to be published as an article, the respective authors will be informed of the acceptance with possible publication date.

If a manuscript is rejected or advised to be modified, the authors are given adequate reasons of rejection or modification.

In case of modification or rejection, if an author identifies and rectifies the causes of rejection or modification considerably, the article will be published in IJITAL or other ELT journals of WLC.

After getting acceptance notice from IJITAL, authors are finally advised to complete copyrights formality by completing and signing copyrights form and sending it to IJITAL along with final version of the manuscript.

Plagiarism Guidelines :

IJITAL allows the use of first person ‘I’ to address seemingly valid hypothesis.

IJITAL runs ithentication tool to ensure whether the manuscript has trace of plagiarism or self-plagiarism. If a manuscript is found to have 85% plagiarized contents IJITAL debars the author of the plagiarized manuscript from further submission in any of WLC journals.

In case of self-plagiarism, IJITAL allows, as per international norms, only 40% self-plagiarism provided the contents are contextually well-cited and the final work is in continuation with the previous work or elaboration of the previous work.

Factors for Publication :

The topic should be relevant to the ongoing trends in applied linguistics and TESOL?

The article and the hypothesis therein should be adequately supported by contemporary approaches, methods, principles, strategies, theories, and techniques of TESOL or ELT in general and applied linguistics in particular?

The article should be innovative in terms of empirical findings and well-written in line with the authors’ guidelines?

The literature review should be informative and well-contextualized in terms of imbibing the findings of contemporary research and researchers?

The article should employ pertinent and justified components of research methodology and easy-to-read language.

IJITAL accepts only well-written and well-documented unpublished research articles.

Maximum length of manuscript including abstract (150 words), bibliography, and appendices should not exceed 6000 words.

Formatting Guidelines

A manuscript should begin with title of the paper centrally placed with 16 font size.

Name(s) of Author(s), affiliation, and contact details should be centrally placed with 12 font size in bold face. IJITAL does not publish email addresses of authors.

A manuscript should have an abstract of maximum 150 words with 10 font size.

IJITAL accepts maximum five keywords.

IJITAL allows only five main headings, i.e. Introduction, Methodology, Results and Discussion, Conclusion, and References. These five headings need to written with 14 font size placed on left side.

All paragraphs under the aforementioned five main headings should be single-spaced separated by double carriage returns.

IJITAL accepts up to three layers of subheadings, e.g. 1.1 xxxxx, 1.1.1 xxxxx, in boldface and italic respectively with 12 font size

IJITAL suggests top and bottom margins of 2.54 cm and left and right margins of 3.17 cm.

IJITAL does not encourage footnotes.

IJITAL allows acknowledgments and brief biographical intro with colour photo of the author(s).

Table title should be placed above the table with 10 font size as shown below.

Table-1. xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx

1st Year	2nd Year	3rd Year
23	23	42
25	22	23
12	11	10

Unlike table, figure title or caption should be centrally placed below the figure as shown below.

Figure-1. The Expansion of Arab World

Reference Guidelines
References should be written with 10 font size at the end of the paper in APA format