SKASE Journal of Applied Linguistics & ELT Methodology

The biannual SKASE Journal of Applied Linguistics & ELT Methodology is published as a joint effort between The Slovak Association for the Study of English (SKASE) and Prešov University. SKASE is a national member of ESSE, the European Society for the Study of English.

Form: An electronic on-line journal

Scope:

Second/foreign language acquisition, language learning processes, language contacts (language and culture), inequality issues (ethnicity, class, region, gender, age), language policy and planning, language assessment, language pathology, language and technology, language use (dialects, registers, discourse communities), language teaching (resources, training, practice, interaction, contexts, motivations).

Editorial board:

Editor-in-chief: Teodor Hrehovčík, hrehovt@unipo.sk

Editors:

Richard Repka, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Eva Tandlichova, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Christiane Dalton-Puffer, Vienna University, Austria
Judith Munat, Pisa University, Italy
Maria Jodlowiec, Krakow University, Poland
Dorit Kaufman, Stony Brooks, New York, USA
Aleš Svoboda, Prešov University, Slovakia

The editor-in-chief controls the activities of the editorial board. The number and professional structure of the editors corresponds with the objectives and scope of the Journal. The members of the editorial board function as anonymous reviewers, and guarantee a high quality-level of articles published in the journal. The editor-in-chief is responsible for the selection and smooth operation of the editorial board.

Main Editorial Board

The editor-in-chief, the Director of the Prešov University Library, and the SKASE president form the Main Editorial Board responsible for the organizational and technical aspects of the journal and for making decisions concerning the overall conception of the journal.

Submission of articles

An article of 10,000 words maximum shall be submitted to the respective editor-in-chief in an electronic form as an e-mail attachment. Preferably, articles should be written in the WORD 97 editor.

The articles shall be written in English in accordance with the Style Sheet. Any failure to comply with the instructions provided in the Style Sheet may result in rejecting the article. The author is responsible for the grammatical correctness of the text.

Selection of articles for publication

Upon submission of an article to the Journal, the editor-in-chief will forward an electronic version of the article  to a member of his editorial board whose task is to review the article in an unbiased way. The reviewing process will be anonymous, i.e. the reviewer will not know the author of the article, nor will the author know the reviewer. The reviewer is expected to review an article within a reasonable amount of time, allowing for unforeseen delays.

Based on the review, the editor-in-chief will decide whether the article meets the high-quality standards of the Journal, or is unacceptable. In either case, the author shall be advised of the decision. In the former case, the editor-in-chief shall mail the review to the author in an electronic way, and the author shall modify the article in accordance with the reviewers comments and recommendations. Final decisions concerning acceptance/non-acceptance of an article will be the exclusive decision of the editor-in-chief.In the case of excessive number of articles, the final selection of articles for the next issue shall be made by the main editorial board.

Contacts:

Prof. Dr. Teodor Hrehovčík, Editor-in-chief
Department of British and American Studies
Faculty of Arts, Prešov University
17. novembra 1
080 78 Prešov, Slovakia
Tel/Fax: 00-421-51-7570801
e-mail: hrehovt@unipo.sk

Ing. Peter Haľko, Director
Prešov University Library, Prešov University
17. novembra 1
080 78 Prešov, Slovakia

Tel/Fax: 00-421-51-
7570145
e-mail:
phalko@unipo.sk

Slávka Tomaščíková, PhD, SKASE President
Department of British and American Studies
Faculty of Arts, Prešov University
17. novembra 1
080 78 Prešov, Slovakia
Tel/Fax: 00-421-51-7570801
e-mail: slavkakr@unipo.sk

Style sheet  

Font Times New Roman  
Spacing Simple
Title:   14 points, centred  
Author’s name: 12 points, immediately under the title  
Abstract  100 words max., 11points.  
Heading levels:  
Level 1: 12 points, bold, two lines spacing above and one line below
Level 2:  12 points, italics, one line spacing above and below  
Level 3: 12 points, italics, one line spacing above, text in new line  
Level 4:

12 points, italics, one line spacing above, text in the same line  

Examples, formulas, etc.:  numbered in parentheses, one line spacing above and below, the left-hand parenthesis flushed with the page edge, the text itself indented  by 1.25 cm:  

(3)       a. warm                                     warm-th  
           b. complete                                  complete-ness  

           c. readable                                   readabil-ity

(21)     Ø ® -er IFF [+Agent] and no verb particle OR [Comparative] and monosyllabic base or disyllabic base ending in /i/.

(45)      She’s a good prime minister.  

References:

In parentheses, including
- the year of publication followed by a colon, a space, and the page referred to):  
Vachek (1976: 68) assumes that... 

or, if a publication as a whole is referred to:  
- author’s name, space, year of publication:
(Vachek 1976)
 

Quotations:

Up to three lines: in the text
More than three lines: 11 points, indent 1.25 cm, one line spacing above and below: A number of preliminary remarks are due on some basic points. First of all, as Vachek  (1976: 92) points out


"the impact of external (i.e., economic, social and cultural) factors on the non-lexical planes of a language system is usually not a direct, immediate one. Most frequently it is a secondary impact mediated by the operation of some other language system, acting as an exponent of the external factors influencing the affected language system."

 

Figures:

Identified below the respective figure as follows:  
Figure 4 Halle’s model of word-formation

Footnotes: After the text, 11 points
References:

After any footnotes, 11 points, non-abbreviated first names of the author(s):

Brömser, Bernd. 1985. “On the Derivation of English Verbal Compounds.” In: W. Kürschner, R. Vogt, and S. Siebert-Nemann (eds.), Grammatik, Semantik, Textlinguistik. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 99-113.

Browne, Wayles. 1974. “On the Topology of Anaphoric Peninsulas.” Linguistic Inquiry 5, 619-620.

Bybee, Joan L. 1985. Morphology. A Study of the Relation between Meaning and Form. Amsterdam/Philadephia: John Benjamins.  

Author’s address and e-mail:   11 points, italics, at the end of the article.