About the Journal

Scope

The Horizontes em Linguística Aplicada Journal, founded in 2002, a biannual publication of the Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics of the Department of Foreign Languages ”‹”‹and Translation at the University of Brasília. It aims to disseminate unpublished texts in the area of teaching and learning foreign, second or aditional languages written in Portuguese, English, Spanish or French.

Manuscripts authored by researchers, undergraduate and graduate professors (doctors) and doctoral students are accepted. 
Master's student texts will only be accepted if submitted in co-authorship with their advisors.
Only unpublished texts resulting from applied research and theoretical discussions relevant to the journal's concentration area are accepted for publication.

Since 2011, translations of articles published in this or another journal are no longer accepted.

Scope: Foreign, second and aditional language teaching and learning:
Ӣ acquisition of L2 and LE
Ӣ language teacher training
Ӣ training of language learners
Ӣ culture and language teaching and learning
Ӣ analysis of approaches and skills
Ӣ teaching Portuguese as L2 and LE
Ӣ linguistic theories and language teaching
Ӣ course planning
Ӣ production and evaluation of teaching materials
Ӣ pedagogical dictionaries and their use
Ӣ language assessment and teaching
Ӣ literature and language teaching
Ӣ teaching of writing and speaking
Ӣ speech in language teaching and learning
Ӣ translation teaching
Ӣ translation in language teaching and learning
Ӣ applied terminology / lexicography
Ӣ language-mediated social relations at school

Section Policies

Papers

Verificado Open access Verificado Indexed Verificado Peer-reviewed 
 

Peer-reviewing Process

All submissions are pre-evaluated by the editors, in order to identify whether they fall within the journal's scope and policies. Then, anonymous manuscripts are subjected to blind peer review (double blind), involving two reviewers (external to the Editorial Committee) who are members of the Editorial Board or by ad hoc consultants. Our Editorial Board is composed of doctors from several national and international universities. In order to be published, the texts need to receive two favorable opinions. If one of the opinions is contrary, the text is sent to another referee. Texts produced by invited authors are also submitted to the same evaluation process by reviewers external to the Editorial Committee (members of the Editorial Board or ad hoc consultants). After the analysis, the copy or compilation of the opinions is sent to the authors together with instructions for modifications, when applicable. Before being published, all texts are submitted to proofreaders, who suggest implementations of form. The changes are made / approved by the authors themselves. If there are more approved works than can be published in a certain issue of the magazine, those that have obtained the best evaluations by the reviewers may be chosen.

Frequency

Two annual issues are published. The first issue ends in June and the second in December each year.

Articles are published separately online in the publish-as-you-go mode (before the edition's closing date).

Open Access Policy

This Journal offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public provides greater worldwide democratization of knowledge.

RHLA is indexed in the following databases:

* UnB Journals Directory

* Periodic Capes

* Latindex

* WorldCat

* Diadorim

* JURN

* ERIH PLUS

 

Fees

We do not charge any fees for the evaluation or publication of papers. All published articles are open-access.

Archiving

We use the LOCKSS system to create a file system distributed among participating libraries and allows them to create permanent magazine files for preservation and restoration. Further information...