Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The submitted text has not been previously published in full or in part or in any other language.
The text is presented according to the TEISEL templates.
The text is presented according to all the guidelines, as indicated:
1) in templates
2) on the TEISEL website ("Submissions" section)
*Authors are requested to read all the guidelines carefully, with regard to format and the system for presenting bibliographic references.
The text must be sent anonymously (not for the “Reviews” section).
A separate document is submitted with the following author details:
- name and surname (if there is more than one author, specify which is the contact for correspondence)
- ORCID
- affiliation (academic institution)
- institutional email
- brief biodata (see examples in published articles).

Author Guidelines

Format

TEISEL supports originals prepared with Libre Office, Open Office and Word using the .rtf, .odt, .doc or .docx formats, as well as originals in LaTeX. The journal offers authors three templates in Word (all proposals submitted to TEISEL must use the format shown in the templates):
For everythig else, should follow the format specified in the 7th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA 7), with the details indicated in the templates.
Examples of APA: http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/handle/2445/171291 (in Catalan); https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples (in English); https://normas-apa.org/wp-content/uploads/Guia-Normas-APA-7ma-edicion.pdf (in Spanish).
Contributions that do not follow TEISEL's formal guidelines will not be accepted.

Gender equality and visibility of women in science

In accordance with international recommendations and the UB style book, articles for TEISEL will include the full first name of both the people who sign the article and those cited in the bibliography.

Languages of titles and abstracts

Titles and abstracts (in submissions of Articles on the use of tools and resources and Articles on research in which technology is used) should be written in the following languages:

in the language of the submission
in the language forming the object of study of the submission (abstracts are admitted in the alphabet used by that language)
in English
in Spanish
in Catalan (the Editorial Board may take responsibility for producing the version in this language).

(See specific guidelines below).

About key words

Papers submitted for any of the three sections of TEISEL must be accompanied by three to five key words.

As far as possible, the authors will select their key words from among those listed in the UNESCO thesaurus (http://vocabularies.unesco.org/browser/thesaurus), in Spanish and English (the editorial team will be in charge of the Catalan version). For indexing reasons, if required by the reviewers of the article, the authors may be asked to change the selected key words.

Publication fees

TEISEL does not charge any fees, either to authors or to readers.

"Articles about Resources and Tools" section

This section includes articles that describe:

a) Useful linguistic tools and resources for research on the teaching, learning, acquisition, or assessment of second languages;
b) Tools that, while not directly concerning linguistics, can be useful for research on the teaching, learning, acquisition, or assessment of second languages: tools for quantitative or qualitative analysis, for document management, for visualization and visibility of research results, for communication between researchers, for spatial location, etc.

In both cases:

priority will be given to free access technologies
priority will be given to contributions written in the first person by specialists who have participated in the development of the tool or resource being described
descriptions will be illustrated with screenshots
articles must include the following content/sections
- titles (see "Languages of titles, abstracts and key words")
- abstracts of 200-300 words each (see "Languages of titles, abstracts and key words")
- 3-5 key words (see "About key words")
- description of the resource or tool, from the perspective of its usefulness for research on L2

Length: between 5,000 and 8,000 words.

"Articles about Research with Technologies" section

This section includes articles that, within the framework of research on the teaching, learning, acquisition, or assessment of second languages, describe how a given technology works. Here, "Technology" is understood in a broad sense: as a resource, tool, corpus, etc.

The objective is to disseminate the possibilities and limitations that a certain technology presents for research, based on one's own research experience developed through a project, a specific study, or a doctoral thesis. Therefore, priority will be given to articles on the use of technologies for research over those that focus on technologies for the teaching, learning, acquisition, or assessment of second languages.

Articles must include the following content/sections:

title (see "Languages of titles, abstracts and key words")
abstracts of 200-300 words each (see "Languages of titles, abstracts and key words")
3-5 key words (see "About key words")
cited references (see "Format")

As a guide, the article should address the following questions:

the research in which the technology in question has been used (objectives, methodology, etc.)
the technology used: justification for the choice of this particular technology, description of the use of this technology to achieve the specific objectives of the research (data collection, processing obtaining results, etc.), details on the accessibility of the technology (if it is free, subject to a fee, or with some type of intermediate accessibility)
the type of experiment or work: research results (with special emphasis on how the technology has contributed to achieving them); discussion of the results; recommendations for future research with this technology

Length (including bibliography): between 7,500 and 10,000 words.

"Reviews" section

This section includes reviews of publications (books, proceedings, thematic portals, etc.) related to the use of technologies for research on the teaching, learning, acquisition, or assessment of second languages

Reviews will be accompanied by between three and five key words. See "Languages of titles, abstracts and key words" and "About key words".

Length: between 2,000 and 4,000 words

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in TEISEL agree to the following terms:

Authors retain the copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication of the manuscript.
Manuscripts will be released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license, which allows the work to be shared with third parties as long as the authorship, the initial publication in TEISEL and the license conditions are acknowledged.

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