About the Journal

Introduction

ELIA: Estudios de Lingüística Inglesa Aplicada (Studies in Applied English Linguistics) is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal published once a year by the Research Group The English Language in University Settings based at the University of Seville (Spain). The research group was founded in 1995 and has been sponsored by the Andalusian Department of Education as part of Andalusia’s Regional Government since its origin. Nowadays a team of 25 university professors (belonging to the Editorial Board, Board of Advisors and Board of Referees) from various educational institutions, both at the national and international level, contribute their professional endeavor to the journal.

In ELIA Journal the technical term “applied linguistics” has always been interpreted as a generic concept embracing a rapidly growing multidisciplinary megafield that makes use of and reorients the scientific knowledge of human language offered by various disciplines (e.g., linguistics, psychology, sociology, neurobiology, pedagogy, anthropology, etc.) so as to address a wide range of theoretical, applied, and practical questions whose shared aim lies in performance phenomena and problems related to verbal communication in the “real world.” However, given the extremely broad scope that this megafield has achieved in the 21st century, contributions to ELIA are mainly related to the following applied linguistics fields:

  • Issues in non-native/additional (L2) acquisition/learning.
  • Issues in L2 teaching.
  • Issues in L2 discourse/pragmatics.
  • Issues in bilingualism/multilingualism.

Although the L2 under study in the articles published in ELIA is most often English, articles dealing with relationships/interactions between English and Spanish, or English, Spanish and some other modern language are also given consideration.

As part of its policy, ELIA Journal strictly adheres to COPE publication ethics and publication malpractice statement (http://publicationethics.org/). All articles published in ELIA have undergone an exhaustive anti-plagiarism review. ELIA's anti-plagiarism policy ensures that all published works are unpublished, thus guaranteeing the originality of all manuscripts.

 

Gender equality

There are disciplines and methodologies that focus on data collection and analysis, often through the creation of databases or other similar systems. In order to promote good practice in data management that supports equality and diversity, it is important that articles of this nature include, where necessary, variables related to sex and/or gender. This will allow for the identification of possible relevant differences. Inclusive language is a practice that currently has no official regulation by the RAE, whose regulations are commonly used in the ELIA journal edition. However, with the aim of reflecting gender diversity, the journal accepts articles that consider this perspective. Since there is no single standard for the use of inclusive language and there are multiple style guides available, it is recommended that articles adopting this approach maintain a uniform consistency throughout the text. Each article will not be subject to the same criteria, but should be internally consistent with the inclusive language option chosen.

 

Preservation policy

Digital preservation is understood as a set of processes and activities that ensure that information that now exists in digital formats is backed up and distributed to guarantee continuous access in the long term. It is supported by the services of the CSI (Centro de Servicios Informáticos) of the UNED, in charge of preservation through backups.

This journal is part of the Public Knowledge Project's Private LOCKSS Network (PKP-PLN), which generates a decentralised archiving system, distributed among collaborating libraries, with the aim of creating permanent archives of the journal for the preservation of the original contents and their restoration if necessary.

The preservation policy also includes the assignment of DOIs to the journal title, each issue and article.

 

Interoperability

ELIA uses the interoperability protocol OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) for the harvesting of metadata of the published content: https://revistas.uned.es/index.php/ELIA/oai

 

Peer review process

ELIA is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal and is published once a year. All submissions are reviewed anonymously by members of the editorial board as well as external referees.

 

Acceso abierto

ELIA is an open access journal and there are no publication charges or fees. Regarding the conditions of self-archiving, authors are allowed to archive post-print version for non-commercial purposes including repositories and personal websites. Conditions for self-archiving can be consulted at: http://www.accesoabierto.net/dulcinea/consulta.php?directorio=dulcinea&campo=ID&texto=1716

Creative Commons License

Authors are authorised to deposit in institutional or thematic open access repositories the published version of their articles (offprint in pdf) or the link to their article on the journal's website.