Dear Readers,
Here we are, just two issues away from our 100th issue, with #98. Perhaps due to our recognition as a SCOPUS-approved journal, our submission rate is steadily increasing. And with ‘success’ comes more work for our volunteer team. We already have eight articles queued for the November issue, with another 70 at various stages in the publication pipeline.
Copyeditors. I would like to thank those with a “thankless task”, the copyeditors. This handful of volunteers is responsible for checking the content of all feature articles in this issue: József Horváth, Iris Levitis, Golrokh Maleki, Anna-Karin Roo, and Masood Raee Sharif. Actually, we are finding it difficult to find a sufficient number of copyeditors to manage the volume of submissions awaiting publication. One of the team checks each accepted submission, improves the wording, checks that the article follows the TESL-EJ requirements and that the references adhere to the relatively new APA 7 format. We would welcome a few more volunteers. The copyeditors need not be ‘native speakers’; anyone who feels confident with their own ability to write in acceptable “academic English” is welcome to apply. Please write to Seyed Abdollah Shahrokhni, <managingeditor@tesl-ej.org> if you would like to be considered for this important task.
On the Internet Column. Our new team of two co-editors, Dr. Omran Ali Akasha of Washington State University and Dr. Mark Feng Teng of Beijing Normal University have a number of articles in preparation for “OTI” but none is yet ready for publication, yet. Look forward to the first article under the new co-editors in the November issue.
Passages. As is frequently the case, we do have team members who are resigning, as well as some new ones who are coming aboard. We have one new co-editor, a freshly minted Ph.D., Nicholas Bremner, who also crafted one of the articles in this issue. Unfortunately, due to his own over-competence, one co-editor, Brent Green of Brigham Young University, Hawaii has been forced to resign due to newly assigned responsibilities at the university. He assures me that surf-boarding had nothing to do with it. We would also like to thank Iris Levitis who has copyedited submissions for for TESL-EJ for over 5 years, but is now in a line of work unrelated to ELT or Linguistics. Time to move on!
Thank you to our reviewers! The TESL-EJ team would also like to thank the reviewers of the articles that have merited inclusion in this issue: Ali Derakhshan, Binod Dham, Claire Louise Rodway, Cristina A. Huertas-Abril, Ender Velasco, Flora Debora Floris, Gözde Balıkçı, Guy Redmer, Heidi E Vellenga, Helen Jang, Islam An Ismail, Jayaron Jose, Jessica Catalina Vega, Josh Alexander Kidd, Langgeng Budianto, Manashi Dutta, Mark Bedoya Ulla, Maryam Farhang-Ju, Miriam Faine, Momene Ghadiri, Nabaraj Neupane, Nadia Idri, Pelin Irgin, Ryan Spring, Samantha Nicole Azatova, Semahat Aysu, Seray Tanyer, Sumaya Mohammed Salih, Svetlana Koltovskaia, Wisam Chaleila, Xuelan Li, Zeynep Ölçü Dinçer and Züleyha Ünlü . There are many others who reviewed articles that did not meet our standards for publication, whom we would also like to collectively thank.
Thomas N. Robb, Ph.D.
For the editorial team