Turkish Online Journal of English Language Teaching

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The first issue of Turkish Online Journal of English Language Teaching (TOJELT) is online now with a rich academic content. In this first issue, 4 articles and a book review have been published with the meticulous collaboration of TOJELT’s team. These are; Cho and Krashen’s invited article on reading skill, Takkaç Tulgar’s article on the use of pragmatic competence in language classrooms, Bambirra’s article on a motivational attractor basin and Pacheco Salazar’s assessment of blended learning in university level students, and a book review of Shojaei and Motallebzadeh about the relationship between teaching English and the use of technology.

TOJELT is a double blind peer-reviewed and triannual international journal. The main goal of the journal is to create a new platform to exchange of the information on all aspects of English language teaching. Thus, TOJELT aims to report up-to-date high-quality empirical and original research contributions in the domain of English language teaching. The scope of the journal includes, but not limited to, theory and practice in English language teaching and learning, teaching and learning English as a second/foreign language, English language teachers and learners, teaching English to young learners, applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, literature in English language teaching and so forth. TOJELT also publishes book reviews, proceedings, dissertation reports – as long as they are expanded and revised regarding the expectations of TOJELT- of potential interest to readers of the journal. TOJELT completes the review process as early as possible. Any offer on publishing special issue is also welcomed by the editorial advisory board of the journal.

Lastly, we sincerely thank all board members and the referees for their efforts in the publication process of the first issue. We send our gratitude to the organizers of The Self in Language Learning Conference held in 2015 for their advertising our journal. Hope to be in collaboration forever.

With regards,

Editors-in-Chief of the TOJELT