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RATE (Romania)
07/01/15

Aims and scope

 

RATE Issues (RATEI) addresses TEFL/TESOL professionals at elementary and high school level as well as university faculty and researchers. Articles can explore topics ranging from Anglophone literature and cultural studies to teaching English and linguistics. RATEI also welcomes teachers' project reports featuring findings and transferrable good practice. 

Submission guidelines for authors

Our ISSN-registered journal is free to access, free to submit articles to and no processing charges are imposed. It is indexed in international databases, including Index Copernicus International, DOAJ and Infobase, which means that articles published will appear there, can be quoted and seen by academics and professionals around the world.

Submitted articles are always checked for plagiarism online and in library databases and they are disqualified if they include unacknowledged text by others or paraphrased text without mention of the source. Routinely, two external reviewers are asked to blindly evaluate submitted articles (without knowing the author's identity) and suggest improvements. The review criteria according to which an article can be accepted, possibly with suggestions for improvement, or rejected can be downloaded here.

Submissions are expected by email at larisa_tibucanu@yahoo.com. As of 2024, RATE Issues accepts papers all year round, with an estimated four weeks' waiting time until publication; the two annual issues, formerly entitled Summer and Winter are now simply labelled as volume 1 and 2, respectively.
Articles should follow the MLA format and include:

  •  a detailed tile
  •  an abstract of 70-150 words
  •  a list of 5-7 keywords
  •  a bibliography (where applicable)
  •  biodata (50-100 words on your professional achievements to date)
  •  a photograph of the author and other illustrations inserted directly into the document.

Authors must mention their institutional affiliation next to their name. Article should contain between 1500 and 8000 words.