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Call for Papers

Submissions are welcome from anyone who is professionally involved in the teaching of English or any other foreign language. Since JEFL represents a variety of cross disciplinary interests, the editorial board invites articles on a wide range of issues. Articles which draw on relevant research in such areas as anthropology, applied and theoretical linguistics, communication, education, psycholinguistics, psychology, first and second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics and then address implications or applications of that research to issues in literature or language teaching are particularly welcome. There is special interest in articles which focus on new developments or offer fresh insights and interpretations. Articles written for JEFL should be original and not published before in any book, journal, etc.

JEFL follows a blind review policy. Writers, whose articles are accepted for publication, will receive a copy of the journal along with ten offprints of the published articles. Articles not accepted for publication will be returned only if they are accompanied by a self addressed stamped envelope. Articles should be between 1000 and 4000 words in length. A 200 word abstract should accompany the article. A brief biographical note (fifty words) should also be enclosed with the article. The format to be used for references, etc., in the text, is the MLA format. One hard copy of the manuscript, along with a copy on a 3.5" floppy should be sent to:

Dr. Lakshmi Chandra
Editor, JEFL
Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages
Hyderabad 500007
Andhra Pradesh
India
E mail: jefl@ciefl.ernet.in

If a copy cannot be sent on a floppy, two typed copies should be submitted.

(Editor's note: Dr. Lakshmi Chandra is one of the seven members of the Katherine Anne Porter Society who reside in foreign countries [one of our two Indian members]. She and I began corresponding regularly in the spring of 1999 when she discovered that I spelled her name incorrectly in the Porter bibliography that is mounted on the University of Maryland Libraries' Web site. She has been teaching at the college level all over India for the last fifteen years. Her dissertation was judged the best doctoral thesis by an Indian on American Studies by the American Studies Research Center, Hyderabad. It was published as Katherine Anne Porter: Fiction as History by Arnold Publishers in 1992. She co authored Improve Your Writing and Learn English Through Science and has done freelancing for magazines and newspapers. As an academic, she has supervised post MA research; eight of her students have received their degrees.)