Free Electronic Journals in TESOL and Linguistics

* APPLES: applied language studies (Biannual) Vol 1 Issue 1 2001 http://www.solki.jyu.fi/apples/apples.htm
International refereed journal from the Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.

* Applied language learning (Biannual) Vol 7 1996 –
http://www.dliflc.edu/Academics/academic_materials/all/allissues.htm
Published by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Monterey, CA. USA. The journal contains both practical and theoretical articles.

*Asian EFL journal (Quarterly) 2002 –
http://www.asian-efl-journal.com
From the University of Auckland Faculty of Arts.

* Australasian journal of educational technology (3 per year) Vol 1 1985 -
http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet.html
Publishes research and review articles in educational technology, instructional design, educational applications of computer technologies, educational telecommunications and related areas. Free access to all but the current volume.

* Bilingual research journal (Three per annum) Vol 16 1992 –
http://brj.asu.edu/
Official organ of the U.S National Association for Bilingual Education. Covers a wide range of topics relating to bilingual education, bilingualism in society and language policy in education. The journal contains three sections: research and essays; the traditional formats of scholarly discourse; research in practice which documents the experience of teachers and other practitioners; and book reviews.

* CALL-EJ Online (Irregular) 1999 -
http://www.tell.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/callejonline/index.php
The Australian journal On-CALL and the Japanese journal CALL-EJ have merged to form this new free online journal which aims to broaden and strengthen the base of computer assisted language learning in the Western Pacific area.

* EA journal (Biannual) Vol 21 no 1 2003 –
http://www.englishaustralia.com.au/index.cgi?E=hsvalidator&template=journal
Current and immediate past issues available free online. Print issues available from the NCELTR Resource Centre.

* English connection (Bimonthly) May 1997 –
http://www.kotesol.org/?q=TEC
Official newsletter of Korea TESOL. The journal features scholarly articles, research and practical information. Back archives available free.

* English language teacher education and development (Annual) Vol 2 1996 -
http://www.cels.bham.ac.uk/ELTED
Jointly published by the Centre for English Language Teacher Education at the University of Warwick and the Centre for English Language Studies at the University of Birmingham this journal is a medium for the exchange of ideas and information on theoretical and applied issues pertaining to English language teacher education.

* English teaching: practice and critique (Irregular) Vol 1 No 1 Nov 2002 –
http://education.waikato.ac.nz/research/journal/index.php?id=1
A peer-reviewed international journal for English literacy teachers and researchers from the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

* English teaching forum (Quarterly) 1993 –
http://exchanges.state.gov/forum/
A journal for teachers of English as a second and as a foreign language. Articles focus on the theory and practice of teaching English and include discussions of methods, techniques and ideas useful in the classroom. Main articles from the print version are included free plus a full table of contents listing. The print version is available in the NCELTR Resource Centre from 1981.

* ERIC Digests (Irregular)
http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/index.html
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics and the National Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education (NCLE) in the U.S. have prepared these brief reviews and bibliographies on ESL topics which are free to all.

*Evaluation and research in education (Quarterly) Vol 10, 1996 – latest 2 years
http://www.multilingual-matters.net/erie/default.htm
Free online from the publisher. Print version available in the NCELTR Resource Centre from Vol 2, 1988 – Vol 18, 2005.

* Fine print (Quarterly) 1998 –
http://fineprint.valbec.org.au/archive
Australian journal of adult literacy and language research, project work, policy work and administrative practice. Free archive in pdf format for issues up to the past two years. Print version from 1994 held in the NCELTR Resource Centre.

* Humanising language teaching (8 p.a.) Issue 1 1999 –
http://www.hltmag.co.uk
From Pilgrims Ltd in the UK. Each issue contains lesson plans and a major article in the area of humanistic thinking.

* The Internet TESL journal (Monthly) 1995 -
http://iteslj.org
This free online journal is published in Japan and contains articles with practical teaching tips, lesson plans, Web links for students and teachers, reports of projects and class handouts.

* Journal of asynchronous learning networks (Biannual) Vol 1 1997 –
http://www.aln.org/publications/jaln/index.asp
Free online journal published by the Vanderbilt University for the Asynchronous Learning Network Center. A scholarly reviewed journal that includes research articles describing original work in the field of ALN. All but the current issue are free.

* Journal of computer-mediated communication (Quarterly) 1995 -
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/
This free online journal contains scholarly articles on computer mediated communication in all subject disciplines. Contents of the current journal and the archive may be searched by keyword.

*Journal of intercultural communication (Biannual) Issue 1 1999 –
http://www.immi.se/intercultural
Aims to promote research, education and training in the area of intercultural communication. The journal is an outgrowth of the activities of the Nordic Network for Intercultural Communication.

* Journal of the imagination in language learning (Annual) Vol 1 1993 – 2003
http://www.njcu.edu/cill/journal-index.html
Contains both practical and theoretical articles for teachers, administrators of educational programs and linguists.

* Journal of multilingual and multicultural development (6 per annum) Vol 17, 1996 –
http://www.multilingual-matters.net/jmmd/default.htm
Full text of issues from 1996 to latest 2 years available free from the publisher’s site. Latest issues availableonly for Macquarie University users. Print version from Vol 10, 1989 held in the NCELTR Resource Centre.

* Kairos: a journal of rhetoric, technology and pedagogy (Quarterly) 1996 –
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos
Refereed online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology and pedagogy.

* Korea TESOL journal (Annual) Vol 1, 1998 –
http://www.kotesol.org/?q=KTJ
From Korea TESOL. An academic journal published to disseminate research and assist with the professional Development of English teachers in Korea. Abstracts in HTML format, articles in PDF.

*Language and education (Quarterly) Vol 10 1996 - 2003
http://www.multilingual-matters.net/le/default.htm
Available free via Multilingual Matters up to latest 3 years. Later issues for Macquarie University users only. Print version from 1991 held in the NCELTR Resource Centre.

* Language and intercultural communication (Quarterly) Vol 1, 2001 – 2003
http://www.multilingual-matters.net/laic/default.htm
Full text available free up to latest 3 years from Multilingual Matters.

* Language awareness (Quarterly) Vol 7, 1998 – 2003
http://www.multilingual-matters.net/la/default.htm
Full text up to 2003 available free from the publisher’s site.

* Language culture and curriculum (3 per annum) Vol 11, 1998 – 2003
http://www.multilingual-matters.net/lcc/default.htm
Full text of all but the last 3 years free from the publisher’s site.

* Language learning and technology: a journal for second and foreign language educators. (Biannual) 1997 http://llt.msu.edu/
Sponsored by the University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Research Centre and the Michigan State University Centre for Language Education and Research this free online journal is designed for a broad audience in ESL and EFL. It contains research articles, commentaries and reviews and is indexed in the ERIC database.

* Language, society and culture (Biannual) 1997 -
http://www.educ.utas.edu.au/users/tle/JOURNAL/index.html
This international journal from the University of Tasmania contains articles dealing with practical and theoretical issues focussing on the link between language, society and culture.

* Literacy link: Newsletter of the Australian Council for Adult Literacy (Quarterly) Sept 1998 –
http://www.acal.edu.au/newsletter.shtml
A free online newsletter.

* Meta (Quarterly) Vol 11, 1966 – Vol 47 2002
http://www.erudit.org/revue/meta
Free online archive of this translation and interpreting journal with text in English and French from the University of Montreal.

*NEAS news (Biannual) 2004–
http://www.neasaustralia.com/fst.html
Newsletter of the National ELT Accreditation Scheme Ltd.

*Perspectives: Working Papers of the Department of English and Communication
City University of Hong Kong. Biannual) Vol 16 no 1 2004 -
http://www.cityu.edu.hk/en/research/articles.htm#161
Back issues from Vol 1 held in the NCELTR Resource Centre.

* Practical assessment, research and evaluation (1 p.a.) Vol 1 1988 –89 –
http://pareonline.net
A peer reviewed journal supported, in part, by the Dept of Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation at the University of Maryland, College Park.

*Reading in a foreign language (Biannual) Vol 14, April 2002 -
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl
From the National Foreign Language Resource Center and the College of Languages and Linguistics and Literature, University of Hawaii. A refereed international online journal of issues in foreign language reading and literacy.

* Reading online (Quarterly) 1999 –
http://www.readingonline.org
Published by the International Reading Association this journal is a source of information for the worldwide literacy education community.

* Reading matrix: an international online journal (Biannual) Vol 1 no 1 April 2001 –
http://www.readingmatrix.com/journal.html
Seeks to disseminate research in the field of L2 reading and literacy and other issues related to second language learning and teaching.

* Refugees magazine (5 per annum) March 1994 –
http://www.unhcr.org/doclist/publ/3b5696144.html
From the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Print version in NCELTR Resource Centre.

* RELC newletter(Quarterly) Latest issue only
http://www.relc.org.sg/Forms/newsletter.pdf
Newsletter of the Regional English Language Centre, Singapore.

*Research notes (University of Cambridge ESOL Exams)
(Quarterly) Issue 1, March 2000 –
http://www.cambridgeesol.org/rs_notes/
Issues 1 & 2 are available online. Issues 3 onwards are available in PDF format.

* Second language studies (Biannual) Vol 19 2000 –
http://www.hawaii.edu/sls/uhwpesl/online_cat.html
Formerly Working Papers in ESL Second Language Studies is published by the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii. The series presents work in progress by faculty members and graduate students. Some issues prior to 2000 are also available. Print copies of Working Papers in ESL available at the NCELTR Resource Centre.

* TESL-EJ (Quarterly) 1994 –
http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/
Produced by the University of California at Berkeley this is the longest standing free international electronic journal in the field. It contains articles and reviews relating to the research and practice of TESOL.

* TESL-HK (Biannual) No 1 1998 –
http://www.tesl-hk.org.hk/PreGen/TESL11676.asp?ID=11676&PaperID=0041&Column=A
Free newsletter for English language teaching professionals from the City University of Hong Kong.

* TESL reporter (Biannual) Vol 1 no 1 1967 –
http://www.lib.byu.edu/spc/tesl/
From Brigham Young University, Hawaii. Free and in PDF format. Printed version held in the NCELTR Resource Centre from 1994.

* University College of London. Speech Hearing and Language: work in progress Vol 9 1996 –
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/shl/index.html
Work in the fields of speech and hearing science and phonetics. In PDF format.

* University College of London. Working papers in linguistics. 1996 - 2003
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/PUB/WPL/uclwpl.html
This is an archive of viewable abstracts and downloadable copies of papers (Postscript files).

* University of Sydney Papers in TESOL Vol 1 Dec 2006 –
http://faculty.edfac.usyd.edu.au/projects/usp_in_tesol/currentissue.htm
Peer reviewed working papers in the area of TESOL and TESOL related research

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