Journal of Applied Language and Discourse Studies

Journal of Applied Language and Discourse Studies

The "Journal of Applied Language and Discourse Studies" (JALDS) is a peer-reviewed publication dedicated to disseminating research and reviews in the field of English Language and Literature. JALDS is an international quarterly, academic publication by Arak University. 

JALDS maintains an official academic and research collaboration with the Teaching English Language and Literature Society of Iran (TELLSI) under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
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Prioritizing rapid review and publication, the journal features a diverse, international Editorial Board.

Publisher: Arak University

Language: English

Frequency: Quarterly 

Journal format: Electronic

Review type: Double Blind peer review

Publication Fees: Free of charge. There are no fees for submission, peer review, or publication.

Open Access Policy: All articles are freely accessible and available for download.  

Creative Commons License  This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

This journal follows the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and adheres to the highest standards of publication ethics and integrity.

To prevent plagiarism, all submitted articles are screened for similarity using iThenticate.

Current Issue: Volume 1, Issue 1, Summer 2026, Pages 1-101 

Publication Information

Publisher

Director-in-Charge
Editor-in-Chief
Executive Director

Frequency
Quarterly
Online ISSN

Indexing and Abstracting

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  • Olive Schreiner
  • foreignization
  • Reading Comprehension
  • literary theory
  • Frankenstein
  • intersubjectivity
  • materials evaluation
  • Levinas
  • alterity
  • Funes the Memorious
  • translation
  • Romanticism
  • EFL learners
  • Collective memory
  • Iraqi higher education
  • Domestication
  • Enlightenment
  • narrative attention
  • hydrosocial discourse
  • post-World War II America
  • transpersonality
  • Cognitive Poetics
  • dual-voice hypothesis
  • settler ecology
  • ethical criticism
  • Effective Methods
  • Power Dynamics
  • computer-assisted concept mapping
  • Iranian EFL teachers in Shiraz
  • Metacognitive Awareness
  • Review Study
  • Impoliteness
  • polyvocality
  • Masnavī
  • intermediate level
  • Critical Pedagogy
  • focalization
  • Ney-nāmeh
  • American Dream
  • free indirect discourse
  • Mary Shelley
  • hydraulic enclosure
  • Master/Hysteric Discourses
  • discourse representation
  • narrative identity
  • ILI textbook series
  • All My Sons
  • English Alphabet Instruction
  • Alphabet Instruction
  • PRISMA framework