About the Journal

SALTeL Journal (Southeast Asia Language Teaching and Learning) is a double-blind peer-reviewed international & Open Access (OA) journal dedicated to promoting scholarly exchange among teachers and researchers in the field of Language Teaching. The journal is published online twice a year with the ISSN (online): 2614-2864. The scope of SALTeL includes the following fields: theory and practice in language teaching and learning, teaching a second or foreign language, language teachers’ training, and education.

Authors are encouraged to submit complete, unpublished, original, and full-length articles that are not under review in any other journals.

Focus and Scope

Peer Review Process

The article submitted to this journal will be double-blind peer-reviewed. The final decision of the acceptance or rejection of the article is made by Editor-in-Chief based on the comments given by the reviewer.  

Publication Frequency

The journal is published twice a year: January and July

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

All articles published Open Access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.  We are continuously working with our author communities to select the best choice of license options, currently being defined for this journal as Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Publication Ethics

This statement clarifies ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in our journal, including the authors, the editors, the peer-reviewers and the publisher. This statement is based on COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Authors Ethics:
Reporting standards
Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.
Data Access and Retention
Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data (consistent with the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases), if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.
Originality and Plagiarism
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication
An author should not, in general, publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
Acknowledgment of Sources
Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.
Authorship of the Paper
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects
If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author's obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

Editor Ethics:
Neutrality
The editor is neutral in selecting and screening manuscript. The editor must be objective and fair to all writers who submitted their written works. The editor is forbidden to be discriminative to the authors in terms of gender, ethnicity, religion, race, intergroup, or nationality.
Reporting
Editor reports the selection and reviews scripts clearly and accurately to the author based on accuracy, completeness, and clarity of reporting of result research and its development, including editing techniques and the use of guidelines for publication and screenwriting.
Communicative
Editor communicates effectively and efficiently in the process of publishing the journal. Every suggestion and criticism from authors, reviewers, and journal managers should be addressed clearly, fairly and transparently.
Fairness
Editor distributes scripts to editor team members and reviewers fairly based on their respective competence.
Professional
Editor works professionally based on his duties and responsibilities. The editor should understand any policy related to journal publication. Editor ensures that every script has undergone the editorial process and review correctly, fairly, and objectively.
Responsibility
Editor takes full responsibility for the success of journal publication. Editor guarantees that every journal article published is a new paper and not a copy, and gives benefits to those reading and accessing the journals.
Disclosure of conflicts of interest
Editor upholds copyright and privacy of each other to avoid conflict of interest. Should a conflict of interest arise with other parties, an editor must solve it justly and wisely.

Review Editors Ethics:
Contribution to Editorial Decisions
Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.
Promptness
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.
Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
Standards of Objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
Acknowledgment of Sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Journal Management Ethics:
Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication
The publication of an article in SALTeL Journal is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the authors, the journal editors, the peer reviewers, the publisher, and the society.  Association of Language Teachers in Southeast Asia (ALTSA) as the publisher of this Journal takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, Editorial Boards will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.
Publication Decisions
The editors of the SALTeL journal are responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.
Fair Play
An editor at any time evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual contents without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
Confidentiality
The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

Article Publication Cost (APC)

Article Submission Fee: 0 (USD)
Article Processing Fee: 0 (USD)
Article Publication Fee: 120 (USD) 

Waivers & Discounts

SALTeL offers waivers and discounts to corresponding authors based in low- and middle-income countries.
To ensure that editorial decisions are never influenced by the ability to pay, it is SALTeL Journal's policy that editors of open access journals are not involved in correspondence with authors regarding payment of Article Publication Charges (APCs). The automatic waiver system will be managed by administrative staff not involved in decisions regarding article acceptance. We ask authors not to discuss any issues concerning payment with editors.

Corresponding authors based in the following countries are eligible to receive an automatic waiver for APCs* when publishing in a SALTeL Journal:

*Automatic waivers will only be applied if the corresponding author requests a waiver at the payment step during article submission.

Afghanistan Albania Angola Bangladesh Belarus Belize Benin Bhutan Bosnia and Herzegovia Burkina Faso Burma Burundi Cabo Verde Cambodia Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo Cook Islands Cuba Democratic People's Republic of Korea Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti Dominica Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia Gambia Ghana Grenada

Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Iran Iraq Ivory Coast Kenya Kiribati Kosovo Kyrgyzstan Lao People's Democratic Republic Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Maldives Mali Marshall Islands Mauritania Micronesia (Federated States of) Montenegro Mozambique Myanmar Nauru Nepal Nicaragua Niger Niue North Macedonia Palau Papua New Guinea

Republic of Moldova Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Serbia Sierra Leone Solomon Islands Somalia South Sudan Sudan Suriname Syrian Arab Republic Tajikistan Timor-Leste Togo Tokelau Tonga Tunisia Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Republic of Tanzania Vanuatu Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe

Corresponding authors based in the following countries are eligible to receive a 40% discount on APCs* when publishing in SALTeL Journal:

*Automatic discounts can only be applied if the corresponding author requests.