Types of Manuscript

Vision: Journal for Language and Foreign Language Learning publishes scholarly manuscripts that advance knowledge in the teaching and learning of first, second, and foreign languages, with English as a Foreign Language (EFL) as a central area of interest. The journal mainly accepts original empirical research using quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods approaches. Each manuscript must show scientific rigour, a research design that fits its questions, and a clear contribution to language learning theory, research, or classroom practice. Manuscripts should fall within the journal's focus and scope: foreign language acquisition; translation and language learning; foreign language learning and identity; gender and equality in English language learning; foreign language skills; linguistics and English language learning; literature and English language learning; and foreign language teaching and learning.

The journal considers the following types of manuscripts:

1. Quantitative Research Articles
Original empirical studies that use quantitative methods to investigate language learning and teaching, test hypotheses, develop or validate language assessment instruments, and examine relationships, differences, or effects among variables such as proficiency, learner motivation, anxiety, strategy use, or instructional interventions. Suitable designs include experimental, quasi-experimental, correlational, survey, corpus-based quantitative analysis, test development and validation, and other appropriate quantitative approaches.

2. Qualitative Research Articles
Original empirical studies that explore learners' and teachers' experiences, perceptions, beliefs, identities, classroom interaction, and language use in social and educational settings through qualitative approaches. Suitable methodologies include case study, phenomenology, ethnography, narrative inquiry, classroom action research, discourse and conversation analysis, document or textbook analysis, and other rigorous qualitative designs.

3. Mixed-Methods Research Articles
Original empirical studies that combine quantitative and qualitative approaches within one coherent research design. Authors should explain why both methods are needed, show how the findings from each strand are integrated, and make clear what the mixed-methods approach adds to the understanding of language learning or teaching.

4. Interdisciplinary, Multidisciplinary, and Transdisciplinary Research Articles
Empirical studies that bring language education into dialogue with other fields, such as linguistics, literature, translation studies, psychology, sociology, technology (including AI in language learning), and Islamic or multicultural education, to address complex problems in language learning. These manuscripts must still make a clear contribution to language and foreign language learning and explain why the cross-disciplinary approach is relevant.

Manuscripts outside the journal's focus and scope, or those that do not follow the Author Guidelines and the Article Template, will be rejected without review.