Submission

Manuscripts can be submitted through the journal's online submission and manuscript tracking site. Please consult the guidelines section, the IJLCR stylesheet and the Short Guide to EM for Authors before you submit your paper.

If you are not able to submit online, or for any other editorial correspondence, please contact the editors by e-mail: ijlcrbenjamins.nl

IJLCR invites original submissions in the following categories:

Research articles

Research articles are original research papers presenting research findings based on the analysis of learner corpora. Research findings should move the field forward, either by proposing theoretical developments, methodological advances, and/or pedagogical applications.

Replication studies

Replication studies are empirical studies motivated by a previously published study (not necessarily published in the IJLCR). They reproduce and/or extend the methodology proposed in an initial study of significant impact and of credible methodological rigour within its domain of research. They aim to verify findings and/or examine the generalizability of the insights obtained in earlier learner corpus studies.

The background and motivation sections may be shorter compared to research articles but should clarify why there is a need for replicating the selected study.

Review articles

Review articles are systematic state-of-the-art analyses of research published in the field. They offer a summary of findings and make critical observations on published research to date. Manuscripts submitted under this category can be of two kinds: (1) reviews of study quality in LCR and (2) meta-analyses in a particular domain of LCR.

Corpus reports

Corpus reports present a detailed description of new learner corpora (i.e. corpus design, collection, transcription, annotation and distribution). Such reports should focus on learner corpora that are original in their design and/or construction, available (stored online or available via a data repository) and with high potential for reuse by the research community.

Materials & methods reports

Materials and methods reports provide details of the methods and protocols developed and materials used during a research cycle (e.g. corpus annotation schemes, learner questionnaires). Researchers can co-submit their report to IJLCR together with the original research article.

Software reports

Software reports present a detailed description of a new software tool or code and how it can be used to compile, annotate and/or analyze learner corpus data. Software reports should focus on tools that offer researchers new ways to compile, annotate or analyse a learner corpus and are available to the research community.

Shared task reports

Shared task reports present the cumulative results of shared tasks organized to promote research advancement by solving a problem of general interest to the community (e.g. error identification and correction, native language identification) on the basis of learner corpus data.

Position papers

Position papers are shorter essays (i.e., papers not based on original empirical research) motivated by current theoretical, methodological and/or pedagogical issues that are of general interest to the community. We also welcome responses to position papers.

Articles under consideration are double-blind peer-reviewed and decisions on all published content are made by the editors.

Open Science

This journal encourages Open Science practices and participates in the Centre for Open Science badges. If you want your submission to qualify for any COS badges, read this information before submitting.

Ethics

John Benjamins journals are committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics and to supporting ethical research practices.

Authors and reviewers are kindly requested to read this Ethics Statement .

Please also note the guidance on the use of (generative) AI in the statement.

Rights and Permissions

Authors must ensure that they have permission to use any third-party material in their contribution; the permission should include perpetual (not time-limited) world-wide distribution in print and electronic format.

For information on authors' rights, please consult the rights information page.

Open Access

Articles accepted for this journal can be made Open Access through payment of an Article Publication Charge (APC) of EUR 1800 (excl. tax). To arrange this, please contact openaccessbenjamins.nl once your paper has been accepted for publication. More information can be found on the publisher's Open Access Policy page.

Corresponding authors from institutions with which John Benjamins has a Read & Publish arrangement can publish Open Access without paying a fee. Please consult this list of institutions for up-to-date information on which articles qualify.

For information about permission to post a version of your article online or in an institutional repository ('green' open access or self-archiving), please consult the rights information page.

If the article is not (to be made) Open Access, there is no fee for the author to publish in this journal.

Archiving

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