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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The article does not include any personal or institutional identification.
  • The manuscript follows the template available in the Author Guidelines (below this section).
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point Garamond font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The manuscript will strictly follow the MLA Formatting and Style Guide for citations and references.
  • Both Portuguese and English are the languages of publication.
  • Article submissions should be no more than 25 double pages in length (without references).
  • Review submissions should be at least 750 words but no more than 1,000 words in length.
  • The authors must be graduate students or professionals with a degree (masters, or Ph.D.).
  • In the metadata, all authors must submit abstracts in Portuguese and English.
  • An ORCID ID is required for all authors.
  • All submissions adjusted to the journal template file: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fv1A1kAYpjBYinBF4OwxERfgbB00tA7W/edit?usp=share_link&ouid=101647433850628102671&rtpof=true&sd=true

Author Guidelines

The PLJ - Portuguese Language Journal invites the submission of original, unpublished manuscripts on Second Language Acquisition, Methodology of Foreign Languages Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Literary Criticism, Pedagogy, and also reviews of books, multimedia, and other pedagogical material connected to the teaching and learning of Portuguese.

The Portuguese Language Journal strives to support the teaching and learning of Portuguese by serving as a forum for conveying and exchanging information based on research, practices, and experiences relevant to this field.

To teach and learn Portuguese as a foreign, second, additional, or heritage language - in short, not native – raises, in our days, many challenges (to teachers, students/learners, educators and policymakers, and researchers, to name some of the actors involved in this process) that are important to know, to study, to rethink and to share. We have many examples of excellent work in our area, from successful programs based on quality frameworks to methodologies, techniques, and resources used to promote the acquisition of communicative competencies. The specificity of our object of study, articulated in relation Language-Culture, has developed unique processes and tools to assess the knowledge and competencies of those studying a language and the teachers’ training (graduate, post-graduate, initial, specialized, formal, informal). We are confident that this intense activity has generated the emergence of actions, research, and reflections that will have much to gain if shared. As such, the Portuguese Language Journal invites proposals for articles on the different topics mentioned.

Submission of articles

PLJ invites the submission of original, unpublished manuscripts on Second Language Acquisition, Methodology of Foreign Languages Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Literary Criticism, Pedagogy, and also reviews of books, multimedia, and other pedagogical material connected to the teaching and learning of Portuguese.

 

Submission to reviews

PLJ also publishes reviews of books, films, and other multimedia and pedagogical material published in the last two years. Anyone interested in writing a review should contact PLJ and consult with the editors. 

Two members of the Scientific Committee (or ad hoc reviewers, if the subject of the material does not fit in the areas of expertise of the members of the committee) will issue an opinion on the works, approving them or suggesting the changes they deem necessary. In case one opinion is favorable and the other against, the work will be sent to a third member of the Scientific Committee or an ad hoc referee.

Manuscript structure

a) The manuscrips must follow the journal template available here.

b) After approval, name(s) of the author(s) in full, two lines below the title, aligned to the right and in italics; to be added only in the final version of the work after approval by the editorial board;

c) After approval, Scientific affiliation, in a footnote, including the maximum degree, the name of the institute or faculty to which it belongs, the name of the university (acronym), the ORCID code, and the author's e-mail; also to be added only in the final version of the work, after approval by the editorial board;

d) Summary, in the language of the text (between 100 and 250 words), two lines below the author's name, without indentation and in single spacing; the abstract must contain the objective, method, results, and conclusions of the article; be composed of a sequence of concise sentences in a single paragraph.

e) Keywords (up to five), one line below the abstract, separated by a period.

f) Next to the abstract and keywords (according to the style sheet), the abstract and keywords (in English) must be included, following the same standards as for abstracts and keywords;

g) Text: Must follow the journal template available here.

h) Bibliographical references: Must follow the MLA format. 

 PLJ editors reserve the right to make stylistic changes in any accepted articles.

 

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The Portuguese Language Journal is an open-access journal following the BOAI definitions of open access. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to its articles' full texts and use them for any other lawful purpose. All the articles published in this journal are free to access immediately from the publication date.

 

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