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TESL-EJ welcomes book reviews and review essays of scholarly works and textbooks dealing with English teaching, applied linguistics, second language acquisition, language assessment, applied socio- and psycholinguistics, or related disciplines. Anyone interested in reviewing a book for TESL-EJ may do so in one of the following ways:
In all cases, reviews will be considered for publication on the basis of the quality of the evaluation and description of the book, and the relevance and importance of the book to the field.
Please see the Review Style Guidelines (below) before submitting a review. Review copies, and further information are available from:
Will Seng
University of California, Berkeley
The editors of TESL-EJ, an electronic journal devoted to the teaching of English as a second or foreign language, accept for consideration solicited and unsolicited reviews of recent books for quarterly publication. We welcome short reviews and review essays of scholarly works and textbooks on English teaching, applied linguistics, second language acquisition, language assessment, applied socio- and psycholinguistics, or related disciplines.
Book reviews should be 900-1,500 words long and should provide both description and substantive evaluation, with the emphasis on the latter. We particularly welcome reviews of textbooks or parts of textbooks you have already used with students or have included in a syllabus for an upcoming course. Please make such uses evident in your review. Also, considering our broad international readership and readers' varying backgrounds, please define or explain all terms only an ESL/EFL subfield specialist would be expected to know.
Include a full citation at the beginning of the review, including title, author/editor, edition, date of publication, place of publication, publisher, pagination (small Roman numerals for introductory pages + Arabic numerals for main text pages), ISBN number, and price. A sample of the citation format follows:
The Art of Crossing Cultures
Craig Storti (1990)
Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press
Pp. xix + 121
ISBN 0-933662-85-8 (paper)
$15.95 U.S.
The reviewer's name, affiliation, and e-mail address should be included at the end of the review, flush left, on separate lines, as shown:
Will Seng
University of California, Berkeley
<reviews @tesl-ej.org>
Review essays may be 1,500-2,500 words in length and should include discussion of two or more related books. Full citations of all books discussed, as well as reviewer's name and affiliation, should be as described above.
Reviews should conform generally to the American Psychological Association (5th Edition) format, with the following adjustments made for computer-based dissemination:
For more details, please see: http://tesl-ej.org/apa.html
All reviews must be submitted electronically. Please label your file as follows: Your last name, author's name.doc (e.g. Seng_Grosjean.doc).
Upcoming deadlines:
TESL-EJ Vol. 10.1: May 1, 2006
TESL-EJ Vol. 10.2: Aug. 1, 2006
TESL-EJ Vol. 10.3: Nov. 1, 2006
TESL-EJ Vol. 10.4: Feb. 1, 2007
The book review editor reserves the right to edit for style, length and format, as well as reject unsuitable reviews. Substantive changes will be made only after consultation with the reviewer.
In your email, please include name, address, day and evening telephones, fax number.
Books that are not reviewed within a reasonable time frame must be returned, at the reviewer's expense, to:
M. Sokolik, Editor
College Writing Programs
112 Wheeler Hall
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2500