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Asian EFL Journal examines issues within
the Asian EFL linguistic scene, and considers
how traditional educational Approaches
are integrated with or contrasted against
what is arguably a very specialized and
relatively new field of study. This journal
is now accessible to the global academic
and teaching community, where articles
relating to Asian EFL may be published
and viewed by all EFL professionals. The
primary function of the Asian EFL Journal
is to provide a freely accessible alternative
journal on a quarterly basis through the
user friendly and highly accessible medium
of the Internet that widens the target
audience and authorship, particularly
in the Asian-Pacific region.
The AEJ also provides new insights into
key issues and subjects that are emerging
and are of contemporary interest that
may not gain space in a variety of hard
copy and more 'established' publications.
Some of these publications, whilst of
academic merit, do not support an injection
of new and future oriented thinkers. Thus
the new generations of high quality indigenous
and native speaker authors now have a
professional accessible medium to post
and read insightful and ground-breaking
articles. These articles, for the most
part, may not find their way into costly
journals that have the added problem of
lacking accessibility for the highly mobile
EFL professionals who may find subscriptions
both inconvenient and even costly.
Consistent with the view of maintaining
open doors, our policy is not to have
only linguistic scholarly work, but to
seek and allow other input of a multidisciplinary
kind when possible so as to facilitate
the necessary cross-discipline pollination
that helps advance intellectual and professional
advancement. Increasingly, the EFL field
is becoming a more specialized one with
interdisciplinary value, ranging from
tourism, business, and language learning
inter alia. And clearly, Asian EFL is
becoming highly specialized as cross cultural
and intercultural teaching perspectives
come into prominence. Hitherto, Asian
EFL had too great a tendency to see all
EFL methodologies as having universal
applications for the most part. The Asian
EFL journal sets out to more critically
examine current and new methods in pursuit
of helping to revitalize Asian EFL education.
We look forward to your support, feedback and submissions.
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