The English Language Arts Journal is a peer-reviewed journal that is published by the English Language Arts Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association. The goal of this journal is to disseminate information about current educational research and practices, programs and resources that are of interest to English language arts teachers. This publication also serves to enable teachers to become more aware of new ideas and issues in education, and to gain knowledge, skills and understanding in English language arts.

The English Language Arts Journal accepts the following types of submissions:

• Review papers (reviewing a topic of interest or summarizing recent developments in a topic of interest)
• Academic/theoretical articles
• Book and materials reviews
• Teaching approaches and ideas
• Teacher creative writing
• Other manuscripts of interest to English language arts teachers
  

If you have an unpublished piece that fits the goals of this journal, please consider sending it to the editor at editorelajournal@gmail.com.

Important Information and Submission Guidelines:

• Please use APA citation style.
• Articles are to be a maximum of 8000 words, excluding references; choose your tables and images wisely and ensure that any images you include clarify the content.
• Since articles go through a double-blind peer review process, you can expect feedback and revisions. It is also possible that your article will not be recommended for publication.
• The Alberta Teachers’ Association may have additional feedback that you may be asked to incorporate.
• Please keep in mind that publication timelines take approximately four months from beginning to end.
• Please ensure that your content is tailored for the journal’s audience of educators and education scholars in Alberta.
• Except creative writing and book and materials reviews, all submissions require an abstract (please limit it to five sentences).
• Include a contributor biography after the title of your article and before the abstract.
• Please communicate with the Editor about any questions you may have.
• A caption and photo credit should accompany each photograph.
• The contributor is responsible for obtaining releases for the use of photographs and written parental permission for works by students
  under 18 years of age.