About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Academic Journal Perspective: Education, Language, and Literature published by Department of English Education FKIP (Faculty of teaching and educational sciences) Universitas Swadaya Gunung Jati involves both conceptual and research-based articles on the areas of teaching English as a second or foreign language, English language teaching and learning, and English language teachers' training and education including English Literature.

Peer Review Process

Academic Journal Perspective: Education, Language, and Literature operates a peer review process and promotes blind reviewing. The acceptance or rejection of articles will be decided by the editorial boards based on the review results supplied by the two reviewers assigned by the editorial boards. There are no communications between authors and editors concerning the rejection decision. Before going to review process, all manuscripts will be checked that they are free from plagiarism practice using "Plagiarism Checker X" and "Turnitin" software. If there is an indication of plagiarism, the manuscript will instantly be rejected. Authors whose papers are rejected will be informed with the reasons of the rejection.

In the review process, reviewers consider the correspondence of title, abstract, discussion (findings) and conclusions. Beside, reviewers also examine the novelty, scientific impact, and references used in the paper.

The editors reserve the right to suggest that the authors have their manuscripts proofread and edited by professional proofreaders, and to decline the publication of manuscripts whose authors do not comply with the editors' suggestions.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Copyright Transfer Agreement

The Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that if accepted for publication, copyright publishing of the article shall be assigned/transferred to Academic Journal Perspective: Education, Language, and Literature. Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'Copyright Transfer Agreement'. An e-mail will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Copyright Transfer Agreement' form by online version of this agreement.

Academic Journal Perspective: Education, Language, and Literature, the Editors and the Editorial Board make every effort to ensure that no wrong or misleading data, opinions or statements be published in the journal. In any way, the contents of the articles and advertisements published in Academic Journal Perspective: Education, Language, and Literature are sole and exclusive responsibility of their respective authors and advertisers.

Remember, even though we ask for a transfer of copyright, our journal authors retain (or are granted back) significant scholarly rights as mention before.

The copyright form should be signed electronically and send to the Editorial Office e-mail: eltperspective@gmail.com

Article Publication Charge

A publishing costs waiver is granted to authors who publish the manuscript in this journal. However, other authors are charged USD 45 (IDR 450,000).

Reprints The sample journal reprint is only available by special request. Additional copies may be purchased when ordering by sending back the uncorrected proofs by email.

Indexing and Reputation

Academic Journal Perspective: Education, Language and Literature has been indexed by :

Google Scholar

Science and Technology Index (SINTA 3)

Garuda

Moraref

Copyright and License Statement

COPYRIGHT

Academic Journal Perspective: Education, Language, and Literature  is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike 4.0 Internasional License. Authors retain the copyright to their work. Users may read, copy and distribute the work in any medium provided the authors and the journal are appropriately credited.

LICENSE TO PUBLISH

1. License

All material published by Academic Journal Perspective: Education, Language, and Literature is protected under International copyright and intellectual property laws. The Academic Journal Perspective is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike 4.0 Internasional License (CC-BY-SA) or an equivalent license as the optimal license for the publication, distribution, use, and reuse of scholarly works.

This license permits anyone to compose, repair, and make derivative creation even for commercial purposes, as long as appropriate credit and proper acknowledgment of the original publication from a journal are made to allow users to trace back to the original manuscript and author.

You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. If you remix, transform or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

2. Author’s Warranties

The author warrants that the article is original, written by stated author/s, has not been published before, contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, is subject to copyright that is vested exclusively in the author and free of any third party rights, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author/s.

3. User Rights

Under the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike 4.0 Internasional License, the author(s) and users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit the contribution).

4. Rights of Authors

Authors retain the following rights:

copyright, and other proprietary rights relating to the article, such as patent rights,

the right to use the substance of the article in future own works, including lectures and books, the right to reproduce the article for own purposes, provided the copies are not offered for sale, the right to self-archive the article.

5. Co-Authorship

If the article was prepared jointly with other authors, the signatory of this form warrants that he/she has been authorized by all co-authors to sign this agreement on their behalf, and agrees to inform his/her co-authors of the terms of this agreement.

6. Termination

This agreement can be terminated by the author or Academic Journal Perspective upon two months’ notice where the other party has materially breached this agreement and failed to remedy such breach within a month of being given the terminating party’s notice requesting such breach to be remedied. No breach or violation of this agreement will cause this agreement or any license granted in it to terminate automatically or affect the definition of Academic Journal Perspective.

7. Miscellaneous

Academic Journal Perspective will publish the article (or have it published) in the Journal, if the article’s editorial process is successfully completed and Academic Journal Perspective or its sublicensee has become obligated to have the article published. Academic Journal Perspective may conform the article to a style of punctuation, spelling, capitalization and usage that it deems appropriate. The author acknowledges that the article may be published so that it will be publicly accessible and such access will be free of charge for the readers. Academic Journal Perspective will be allowed to sublicense the rights that are licensed to it under this agreement.

Publication Ethics

Academic Journal Perspective: Education, Language, and Literature (e-ISSN 2621-6981,and p-ISSN 2354-7340 is a biannual journal published by Lembaga Penelitian (The Institute of Research) University of Swadaya Gunung Jati in Cirebon and in collaboration with AsiaCall, Vietnam. This journal published manuscripts in the areas of English Language Teaching (ELT) and Literature. The journal publishes both conceptual and research-based articles on the areas of teaching English as a second or foreign language, English language teaching and learning, and English language teachers' training and education including English Literature. This statement clarifies ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in our journals, including the authors, the editors, the peer-reviewer­­­­­s and the publisher. This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed Academic Journal Perspective: Education, Language, and Literature is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the authors, the journal editors, the peer reviewers, the publisher and the society. 

The institute of research as publisher of AJP takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, the institute of research and Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.

Publication decisions

The editors of the AJP are responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair play

An editor at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.


Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.


Duties of Authors

Reporting standards

Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.

Data Access and Retention

Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data, if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Originality and Plagiarism

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication

An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects

If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

Sponsors

Journal History

Academic Journal Perspective: Education, Language and Literature, a peer review journal is registered with p-issn 2621-6981 and p-issn 2354-7340. It was initiated by Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris (The Department of English Education), Universitas Swadaya Gunung Jati (UGJ) Cirebon, Indonesia in collaboration with AsiaCALL Vietnam in the beginning of January 2018. In order to provide better services, Academic Journal Perspective: Education, Language and Literature is published under Lembaga Penelitian (The Institute of Research), Universitas Swadaya Gunung Jati, Cirebon, Indonesia as a joint publication with the AsiaCALL - Thailand since its Vol 1(1) January 2018. The MoU certificate can be dowloaded here.

Started from Vol 1(1) Mei 2013, the authors hold the authorships and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.