Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE)

AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH EDUCATION

Guidelines for Contributors

Australian Journal of English Education is the peer‐reviewed national journal of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE).

We welcome high quality teacher oriented and scholarly submissions in any relevant field of English, language and literacy education.

Your submission should reflect dilemmas, debates and concerns facing current contemporary English educators in Australia and elsewhere. Your submission may report on empirical research conducted with or by English teachers and students in classrooms, it may discuss the effects of policy on English teaching or it may elaborate on changes in the practices of teachers. It should be explicitly linked to issues of English teaching, pedagogy or curriculum and should demonstrate familiarity with current and pertinent scholarly literature.

The name of the journal is in no way parochial. Articles will be considered from anywhere which professes English as a dominant or additional language. However, if your article relates closely to a specific national context please ensure that it is appropriately pitched to readers who are secondary or tertiatry English teachers in English-dominant contexts.

Contributors are encouraged to read previous issues of English in Australia/AJEE to get a sense of what is required in terms of structure and style. Authors wishing to contribute to AJEE should do so with reference to the following guidelines:

1. All manuscripts should be submitted to the Editorial team via Scholastica: https://ajee.scholasticahq.com/

2. Please provide all the information requested on the site; ensuring that your name does not appear on the manuscript itself (to keep the blind review process intact).

3. Your submission should begin with an abstract of 100‐150 words.

4. All references should conform to the American Psychological Association (APA) style. Please consult the APA Publication Manual, 7th edition, or any guide to APA referencing available through university library websites.

5. Please ensure that you have carefully edited and proofread your manuscript. Accepted articles that have style problems or inaccurate/missing references will be returned to the author for revision.

6. Please avoid footnotes. Usually it is possible to incorporate them into the text. Where they cannot be avoided they should be numbered with a superscript and listed at the end of the article (endnotes).

7. All manuscripts should be typed with double spacing on A4 paper with a 2.5 cm margin on all sides.

8. It is the responsibility of the author to seek copyright clearance for any materials quoted.

9. It is the responsibility of authors to ensure that all ethics approvals and relevant permissions have been received prior to the submission of an article for review. Only articles that have obtained ethics and other relevant approvals will be reviewed.

10. All manuscripts are subject to double blind peer review by at least two reviewers. This means that the identity of the author is not divulged to the reviewers, nor are the reviewers’ names revealed to the author. So please ensure that your name is not on the actual manuscript but is included in the author submission metadata fields on the Scholastica site.

11. Please include a separate file with a brief 50 word biographical description and a mailing address; so that a copy of the relevant issue can be sent to you if your paper is published. Both these details are needed if your work is published and are disclosed only to the editor. If you are already a member of your state’s English Teachers’ Association (ETA) you will recieve your copy by that means.

12. Recommended length of articles for publication is between 4000 and 8000 words (including references).

13. You retain copyright of materials published in the journal; Australian Journal of English Educatinon holds first publication rights only. Authors retain the right to self‐archive the final draft of their articles in their institution’s eprint repository.

You can expect feedback from the reviewers and editors to help you shape your work effectively. Please feel free to contact the Editor or members of the Editorial team to discuss any contribution which you may be considering. You can use the discussion function on the Scholastica site to do this.

Although Australian Journal of English Education is predominantly a curriculum research and practice journal, occasionally poems and short texts of other genres relevant to the themes and readership of the journal are also published. Please email artistic works directly to the editor.

Postal Address for any other correspondence:
Editor
Australian Journal of English Education
c/o English House
416 Magill Road
KENSINGTON GARDENS SA 5068
AUSTRALIA
Email: kelli.mcgraw@qut.edu.au

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Peer Review Statement:

All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and at least two anonymous referees.

Quality and esteem

Australian Journal of English Education is currently:

• Recognised as A quality research journal by the Australian ERA (from 2010) in “Curriculum and pedagogy”
• Listed in ISI World of Science international database (international journal rankings of take up, esteem and citations)
• Listed on the Scopus international database (from 2009)
• Available through the Australian Education Index, INFORMIT, ProQuest, Gale and EBSCOhost with full text capability.

Note that the ERA definition of research is the “creation of new knowledge and/or the use of existing knowledge in a new and creative way so as to generate new concepts, methodologies and understandings”.