About the Journal

 

The journal Horizontes de Linguística Aplicada, founded in 2002, a biannual publication of the Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics of the Department of Foreign Languages ​​and Translation at the University of Brasília, aims to disseminate original texts in the area of ​​language teaching and learning, at national and international levels, written in Portuguese, English, Spanish, or French.

Manuscripts authored by researchers and/or professors with a doctorate or doctoral candidates are accepted. Authors without this qualification may submit articles in co-authorship with (at least) one doctor or doctoral candidate.

Only original texts resulting from applied research and theoretical discussions relevant to the journal's area of ​​focus are accepted for publication.

 

We do not accept translations of articles published in this or another journal.

 

Scope: Language teaching and learning (FL, L2, additional language):

L2 and FL acquisition

language teacher training

language learner training

culture and language teaching-learning

analysis of approaches and competencies

teaching Portuguese as an L2 and FL

linguistic theories and language teaching

curriculum planning

production and evaluation of teaching materials

pedagogical dictionaries and their use

language assessment and teaching

literature and language teaching

teaching of writing and oral skills

discourse in language teaching-learning

translation teaching

translation in language teaching-learning

applied terminology/lexicography

social relations in school mediated by language

 

*We are no longer accepting papers on mother tongue teaching and learning

 

 

Peer Review Process

All submissions are pre-evaluated by the editors to determine if they meet the journal's policies and scope, as well as their potential for publication. Only if approved at this stage do they proceed to peer review.

 

Next, the anonymized manuscripts are submitted to a double-blind peer review process, involving two reviewers (external to the Editorial Committee) who are members of the Editorial Board or ad hoc consultants. Our Editorial Board is composed of doctors from various national and international universities.

 

For publication, texts must receive two favorable reviews. If one review is negative, the text is sent to another reviewer.

Texts produced by invited authors are also submitted to the same review process by external reviewers (members of the Editorial Board or ad hoc consultants).

 

After the analysis, a copy or compilation of the reviews is sent to the authors along with instructions for modifications, if applicable.

 

Before publication, the texts are submitted to copy editors, who suggest stylistic improvements. The changes are made/approved by the authors themselves.

 

If there are more approved works than can be published in a given issue of the journal, those that received the best evaluations from the reviewers and the editorial committee may be chosen.

 

The editors retain the final decision on the publication of the article based on a qualitative analysis of the content of the reviews, and not solely on the reviewer's final recommendation for publication or not.

 

 

All articles undergo the same evaluation process described above. They are pre-evaluated by the guest editors (organizers of the thematic volume) and sent for review by independent reviewers in a double-blind system. If the organizers consider that the work does not fit the theme of the dossier, the articles are evaluated for the general section of the journal, as described above.

 

 

Permanent members of the Editorial Board are expected to provide several reviews throughout the year, as well as advice regarding editorial policies and the organization of volumes, whenever requested. Three consecutive refusals to review a submitted article, as well as frequent delays in delivering reviews, will result in the member being removed from the board.

 

 

Two issues are published annually. The first issue is closed in June and the second in December of each year.

 

Articles are published separately online in a publish-as-you-go format (until the closing date of the issue).

 

Open Access Policy

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

 

RHLA is indexed in the following databases:

 

* UnB Journal Directory

 

* Capes Journals

 

* Latindex

 

* MLA International Bibliography

 

* WorldCat

 

* Diadorim

 

* JURN

 

* ERIH PLUS

 

 

We do not charge any fees for article evaluation or publication. All published articles are open access.

 

 

This journal uses the PKP PN system to preserve its digital content.