JALTCALL Trends


https://www.castledown.com/journals/jct

JALTCALL Trends is our newly launched refereed journal. It serves as a sister publication to the JALT CALL Journal, aiming to disseminate high-quality but shorter original research articles, as well as other content relevant to educators and researchers working in the field of computer-assisted language learning. This includes work-in-progress research reports, pedagogical practice papers, discussion papers, and reviews of books and of language learning software. As a hybrid journal, a special post-conference issue will also be published every year featuring papers presented at the annual JALTCALL Conference.

To submit a manuscript for review, please note the instructions below:

Please note that JALTCALL Trends is an independent sister publication to The JALT CALL Journal. If you would like to submit your manuscript to The JALT CALL Journal, please click on this link and follow the instructions.

Submission Guidelines for Special Issue (Conference Papers)

Manuscripts should generally be structured in the standard research paper format (i.e. an introduction section that includes a very brief literature review, followed by methods, results, discussion, and conclusion sections). However, for teaching practice or discussion papers, authors may use their own discretion in structuring the manuscript.

A list of references and a short biography of the author(s) should also be included. APA style referencing conventions (as described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition) should be followed throughout the manuscript.

The total length of a manuscript should be 1,500 to 2,000 words, including the abstract, the references list and the short biography of the author(s).

Please download and carefully read the JALTCALL Trends manuscript template in MS Word format and then compose the content directly in this document without changing the formatting. Once the content has been thoroughly checked and proofread, the manuscript may be submitted for review using the submission link on the JALTCALL Trends website.

Please note that while the topic of AI is of great relevance to our field, we nevertheless expect all submissions to be essentially human-authored. Responsible use of AI as a writing and research tool is permitted, but it is important to exercise common sense and to maintain academic integrity in this regard. Ideas, structure, and wording should generally be the work of the author, and manuscripts may be rejected at the editorial team’s discretion if there is reasonable cause to suspect AI abuse. For further information on AI usage, please refer to the Author Guidelines of the Use of Generative AI by Castledown.

Submissions will be subject to a robust single-blind peer review process (i.e. reviewers will know authors’ identities, but authors will not know who reviewed their manuscript). Authors will have the chance to revise their manuscript after the first round of reviews, but submissions that fail to meet the standards of the journal or are judged to fall outside the scope of the publication will be rejected at the discretion of the editorial team.

By submitting a manuscript, authors agree to review at least two other manuscripts if requested to do so, and to complete these reviews within two weeks of receiving the request.

To ensure a timely publication cycle, all manuscripts must be submitted by Sunday, 19 October midnight  Sunday, October 26th midnight (anywhere in the world).

Any enquiries regarding JALTCALL Trends may be sent to trends@jaltcall.org

We are looking forward to receiving your submission!
Warm regards,
Michael Hofmeyr, PhD
Editor, JALTCALL Trends
Publications Chair, JALTCALL

Volume 1 Issue 1 (2025)

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