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Book
Review Submission Guidelines Types
of Materials Accepted:
The Asian EFL Journal accepts reviews of recently
published (within the last three years) professional books, textbooks, and course
materials dealing with theory or practice in the fields of second language teaching,
acquisition, assessment, linguistics, and related disciplines.
The
Journal currently encourages two kinds of submissions, unsolicited and solicited.
Unsolicited reviewers select their own materials to review. Solicited reviewers
are contacted and asked to review materials from its current list of availability.
If you would like to be considered as a solicited reviewer, please forward your
CV with a list of publications to the Book Review Editor at asianefljournalbookreviews@yahoo.com
All
reviewers, unsolicited and solicited, are encouraged to provide submissions about
materials that they would like to suggest to colleagues in the field by choosing
materials that they feel have more positive features than negative ones. Length
and Format:
1. Reviews should be prepared using MS Word and the format
should conform to 12 pica New Times Roman font, 1.5 spacing between lines, and
1 inch margins.
2. The reviewer(s)' full names including middle initial(s),
title, school affiliation, school address, phone number, and e-mail address should
be included at the top of the first page.
3. The complete title of the text,
edition number, complete name(s) of author(s), publisher, publisher's address
(city & state), and date of publication should be included after the reviewer(s)'
identifying information.
4. Reviews should be between 500-700 words.
5.
A brief biography of the author(s) should be included after the review.
6.
A statement that the submission has not been previously published or is not being
considered for publication elsewhere should be included at the bottom of the page. Organization:
Reviewers are encouraged to peruse reviews recently published in the quarterly
PDF version of the Journal for content and style before writing their own. While
creativity and a variety of writing styles are encouraged, reviews, like other
types of articles, should be concisely written and contain certain information
that follows a predictable order: a statement about the work's intended audience,
a nonevaluative description of the material's contents, an academically worded
evaluative summary which includes a discussion of its positive features and one
or two shortcomings if applicable (no materials are perfect), and a comment about
the material's significance to the field. Style:
1. All reviews should conform to the Journal's APA guideline requirements
and references should be used sparingly.
2. Authors should use plural nouns
rather than gendered pronouns such as he/she, his/her him/her and adhere to the
APA's Guidelines for Non-Sexist Use of Language, which can be found at http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/publications/texts/nonsexist.html.
Consideration
Guidelines:
Reviews will be considered on the basis of the quality of the
writing as well as the content and organization. Reviews which are accepted may
be revised by the editing staff for length, clarity, and style.
Submission
Procedure: Reviews should be submitted via e-mail attachment to asianefljournalbookreviews@yahoo.com
Resubmissions
and Future Submissions:
The Journal is always pleased to accept reviews
from our colleagues in the field. Unfortunately, however, we cannot accept all
submissions. Please do not be discouraged if your review is rejected. Some well-written
reviews are rejected because they are not appropriate for the Journal's audience.
Others may need revision before they can be published, and resubmissions are encouraged.
If, however, a review cannot be accepted, authors are always strongly encouraged
to make future submissions.
Book
Reviews prior to May 2006 appear here Book
Reviews after June 2006 appear in Quarterly Editions. see
Index
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