Please let me know if anything below is missing, in the wrong section or in the wrong order (the sections or entries in each section) – because I’m sure all of those three things are true.
Places to publish (in approximate order of how good it would look on your CV):
– ELT and Applied Linguistics journals (paper-based, online or both)
– Journals of (international or local) teaching organisations
– ELT magazines
– Magazines of (international or local) teaching organisations (including SIGs)
– Trade papers (only EL Gazette as far as I’m aware)
– General education magazines/ newspapers (e.g. TES)
– Language learning and teaching magazines
– National newspapers (including in non-English speaking countries)
– TEFL websites
– A local newspaper
– Someone else’s blog
– Your own blog (on a TEFL website or general blog platform) or website
– General article sharing sites
ELT and Applied Linguistics journals (paper-based, online or both)
ELT Journal – Information for authors
https://academic.oup.com/eltj/pages/general_instructions
TESOL Quarterly – Submission guidelines
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/15457249/homepage/ForAuthors.html
TESOL Journal – Submission guidelines
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/19493533/homepage/ForAuthors.html
TESL-EJ – Submission Procedures (but system doesn’t seem to be working)
https://www.cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/tesl-ej/submit.html
English Today – “To contact the Editors or submit a piece, email englishtoday@cambridge.org”
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/english-today
Language Learning and Technology – Submission guidelines
Language Testing – Submit manuscript
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal/language-testing#submission-guidelines
Applied Linguistics – Information to authors
LINK BROKEN
English Language Teaching – Submissions
LINK BROKEN
Journals of (international or local) teaching organisations
JALT Journal – Submission guidelines
https://jalt-publications.org/jj/submissions
Asian EFL Journal – Submission guidelines
LINK BROKEN
NELTA Journal (Nepal) – Call for papers
ELT magazines
MET – Writing for Modern English Teacher
https://pavilionelt.com/new-pavilion-elt
The Teacher Trainer – Call for Articles and Sending In
Magazines of (international or local) teaching organisations (including SIGs)
The Language Teacher (JALT) – Submissions
https://jalt-publications.org/tlt/submissions
Trade papers
EL Gazette (they ask for submissions in the paper, but can’t find any info online) – Register to read online
General education magazines/ newspapers (e.g. TES)
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Language learning and teaching magazines
Language Magazine – Submission guidelines
https://languagemagazine.com/guidelines-for-submissions-to-language-magazine/
National newspapers (including in non-English speaking countries)
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TEFL websites
TEFL.net – Contact us
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Humanising Language Teaching – “More than half the contributions to HLT are from classroom language teachers. The editor, Hania Kryszewska, invites you to send in your exercises, activities, articles, poems and letters to enrich HLT: hania.kryszewska at pilgrims.co.uk”
ESL Lounge – Write for Us
ESL Galaxy – Contact Us
https://www.esl-galaxy.com/contactus.html
Local newspapers (e.g. something on getting into TEFL for your local newspaper back home)
Someone else’s blog (as long as it’s accessible enough to match a blog format)
Your own blog (on a TEFL website or general blog platform) or website
General article sharing sites
Click on the ELT Publishing category below for similar lists on publishing books and guest blog posts, plus numerous other stuff on the industry.
Thanks Martin, very useful. I had mentioned that, but only had the link for JALT. I’ll add these to the main list above soon.
Newish post on OUP blog on the topic:
http://oupeltglobalblog.com/2013/04/02/writing-for-an-academic-journal/
I think it might be worth distinguishing between the types of thing you can get published in each place. For example, the feature articles in The Language Teacher actually go through a double-blind peer review process, and are almost always serious academic papers. Is that the case with articles in international ELT magazines? (Genuine question, I’m not sure…)
A lot of SIGs are equally rigorous with their publications, and produce academic journals rather than magazines. If you’re trying to get jobs in universities, etc. then publishing peer-reviewed research papers is more important than publishing less rigorously-assessed articles, no matter where they appear.
Hi Rob
I did mention that in the workshop I gave on the topic last week, and it will be in the two articles that came out of that and this list.
I didn’t know that about feature articles in The Language Teacher and SIGs, but my general point was that often teaching associations have both non-peer reviewed magazines and peer-reviewed journals, which is how I would generally define magazines and journals as EtP, MET etc are not peer reviewed and so are considerably lower in priority for people who want university jobs. Same is true of the reviews pages of journals, unfortunately, because that is the only parts of TESL-EJ and ELTJ that I’ve ever appeared in…
The Language Teacher is a weird one. They call themselves a “magazine”, but they’re a strange hybrid of academic and practical stuff. As far as I know, a feature article in the language teacher is considered about the same as a paper in the JALT Journal.
I’m also going through the peer review process for a SIG journal at the moment, and it’s equally rigorous – two peer-reviewers plus comments from two editors. The journals can be stuck into a hierarchy of first-tier, second-tier, etc. but I don’t know where something like TLT would fit. A journal with its feet on the ground, or a magazine with its head in the sky?
Just remembered that the one that mentions publishing for you academic sorts is already up:
http://www.usingenglish.com/articles/getting-published-in-tefl-why-what-where-how.html
I know that http://www.arels.org.uk/ welcome guest posts! They welcome engaging, quality written articles about anything TEFL!
The TEFL Academy are spammers, that’s what they are. I have therefore removed all links to your site, including the one I initially allowed. I also recommend that all readers avoid TEFL organisations like yours who spam sites.