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[MA_TESOL]

Has anyone here submitted papers to any TESOL Journals? What was your paper on>? What was your experience? Any suggestion on a good journal to submit to for a first timer?

[cubanlord]

[kimchi_pizza]

You can try TESOL Quarterly. http://www.jstor.org/journals/00398322.html

I think it's one of the more popular journals out there right now.

[bassexpander]

I submitted an article on the use of electro-shock therapy to increase retention in second language acquisition in male subjects. My studies followed Pavlov's work quite closely, and included soju as a prize to students who answered questions correctly, or a shock if they answered incorrectly. Sadly, student speaking ability and retention suffered after the first thirty minutes of the test. In virtually every case, test subjects were reduced to a blathering pool of piss, vomit, and tears after three hours.

Ultimately, my work was criticized, and proven to be lacking, as many other Korean professors noted that I had not included a pass for a free room salon trip at the end of the test, proving that my test, and the subsequent results, were flawed. They felt that any Korean male might react in the same sad way if not allowed his room salon visit after drinking heavily.

[Sadebugo1]

[MA_TESOL]

I should have known better than to ask this question on here--

[cubanlord]

MA - I was trying to help you and so was Kimchi_pizza. You can't ask such a general question and expect a specific answer. You need to provide us with what exactly you want to get published. I guess you really don't know, but, there are thousands of journals out there, each specializing in something in particular. Therefore, you wouldn't want to send an article on syntax to "essential teacher". You would send it to the Journal of Applied Linguistics. That is my point.

Kimchi_pizza recommended TESOL Quarterly, however I would disagree. You probably (as most of us are) are not at the level that those published in TESOL Quarterly are. That journal is one of the most (if not the most) respected journal in our field. You really need to have something substantial if you want to publish in that journal.

You really shouldn't come on here asking for help then criticizing those that are offering help. If you comment was aimed at Bass, then say so. Don't come on here saying "I should have known better than to ask for help on here". The two of us were trying to help, yet you feel as though we weren't?

Give us specifics and we'll give you specific answers. Give us vague generalizations and that is what you will get.

[Chicoloco]

[cubanlord]

[Chicoloco]

[cubanlord]

[Smee]

Look, the Korean papers will publish just about anything you send in. I should know, they print my stuff. My mom likes it that I'm in the paper, but I don't really consider that being published.

Anyway, to the OP, maybe have a look at the Asian EFL Journal. They have guidelines for submissions on their site, and they are a much lower-tier publication than TESOL Quarterly (third-rate, but they still draw some decent academics and professionals, and would still count as published). I'd recommend skimming through a couple of their entries to get a feel of what they're looking for. But it's definitely doable for somebody with some teaching experience and a grasp of the relevant literature. When Iw as last interested in writing on the topic, the most time-consuming part was just figuring out APA formatting.

edit: and to address your questions, no, I never submitted anything. I did research papers on TEFL in Korea in my final year of college, and thought about using them as a basis for submission to the Asian EFL Journal, but I never got around to it. The biggest thing, in my experience writing tons and tons of thsoe term papers, was grounding it in a solid review of the literature. As there's not much quality stuff on Korean TEFL----KOTESOL doesn't come close to counting----that took some time. Also, I found, and find, that most of the stuff on Asian EFL is pretty apologetic, constructs English as purely an imperialist tool, and doesn't account for the realities we as teachers actually face in the classroom. The gap between reviewing the literature and summarizing the reality was too great, and I eventually decided it wasn't worth it to write about Korean EFL academically. (yet)

[cubanlord]

[Smee]

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