International Journal of Learner Corpus Research

Volume 11 (2025)

Volume 10 (2024)

Volume 9 (2023)

Volume 8 (2022)

Volume 7 (2021)

Volume 6 (2020)

Volume 5 (2019)

Volume 4 (2018)

Volume 3 (2017)

Volume 2 (2016)

Volume 1 (2015)

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

John Benjamins Publishing Company has an agreement in place with Portico for the archiving of all its online journals and e-books.

Language

Contributions are to be in English and have to be carefully proofread, preferably by an expert, prior to submission. Spelling should be British English or American English and should be consistent throughout the paper.

Style requirements

We do not require manuscripts submitted to IJLCR to conform to our stylesheet before acceptance. Manuscripts accepted for publication will have to conform to the IJLCR stylesheet. In general, the journal adheres to the recommendations of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), 7th edition.

Length

Research article, replication study, review article, shared task report: between 7,000 and 10,000 words including references

Corpus report, materials & methods report, software report: between 4,000 and 7,500 words including references

Position paper: Between 2,500 and 7,500 words including references

If you have good reasons to submit a manuscript that does not adhere to the length requirements specified above, please get in touch with the editors or state them in the cover letter.

Anonymization and manuscript blinding

When referring to one’s own previous work, authors should cite their own work as if citing the work of others; the wording should not indicate in any way that the author also authored the previous work. Rather than “In our previous work (Paquot & Plonsky, 2017), we found….”, the reference should say “Paquot & Plonsky (2017) found…" This includes published work as well as work that is in press or in FirstView. Please do not refer to research that is still “in review”.

Data Availability Statements

The author(s) are requested to include a Data Availability Statement at the end of their manuscript, i.e. they are required to specify whether or not their data is available and in which way.

Data Citation

IJLCR endorses the FORCE11 Data Citation Principles and is implementing a mandatory data citation policy. When citing or making claims based on available corpora (or other datasets), authors must refer to the corpus/data at the relevant place in the manuscript text and in addition provide a formal citation in the reference list. See the Tromsø recommendations for citation of research data in linguistics for more info (https://doi.org/10.15497/rda00040).

Reporting corpus research findings

Manuscripts considered for publication will, among other things, be reviewed for their rigorous presentation and analysis of corpus data, and expert use of appropriate research methods.

In addition to the latest edition of the APA publication manual, authors are encouraged to consult Gries & Paquot (2020) for specific recommendations for how to write about the data and methods used and how to report the results of a corpus linguistic study.

Gries, S. Th. & M. Paquot (2020). Writing up a corpus-linguistic paper. In M. Paquot & S. Th. Gries (eds.). Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Berlin & New York: Springer, 647-659. (copy of the article available upon request from the editors)

If the study also includes experimental, quasi-experimental, survey/questionnaire, and other primary research approaches that rely on the quantification of observations, authors are also referred to:

Norris, J. M., Plonsky, L., Ross, S. J., & Schoonen, R. (2015). Guidelines for reporting quantitative methods and results in primary research. Language Learning, 65(2), 470–476. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12104

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