Description
Listening Education aims to enhance the practice in listening education by providing a wide range of research and practical information through the publication of papers concerned with the description of methods for teaching listening in primary, secondary, and post secondary education and with the analysis of the pertaining research. This online journal will recognize that many disciplines – education, communication science, psychology, sociology, anthropology, - have important contributions to make to the achievement of its goals, and the Editors welcome contributions from them. The online-journal invites papers which offer descriptions of classroom practice, empirical research, and reviews of high quality.
The papers are searchable in three categories:
a. Teaching listening: Methods for the classroom
b. Research on teaching listening
c. Reviews of material and textbooks suggested for teaching listening
Papers should be concerned primarily with listening education whatever grade, level, or purpose.
Online access:
The online access is free for all members of the International Listening Association during their membership period. Online access is also free for contributing authors for the period of one year. For individual purchase of online access to this journal please follow this link: www.listen.org
Personal price: Order form
USD 50,00
Institutional price: Order form
USD 200,00
Audience
Teachers and educators at all levels K-12, at colleges and university; researchers in listening and communication education. Guide for Authors Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically by using the links provided on this Listening Education Author website.
Submission of Manuscripts
Carefully consider the category in which you wish to submit your paper. Each category follows a special format which you can inspect if you follow these links:
Teaching listening: This is how to teach listening in the classroom
Research article on teaching listening
Review of teaching material
Submission of an article implies that you own the copyright for the work and that it your own creative work. Please follow the instructions as you prepare your manuscript. Compliance with the instructions will ensure full searchability of your paper.
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to sign a Publishing Agreement. The agreement will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. An e-mail will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with an 'Online Publishing Agreement'. The rights for further publication remain with the author(s).
Subscribers may reproduce the papers for their own personal use. Permission of the author is required for distribution outside the institution and for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations.
Authors' rights As an author you retain the full rights of your paper. The electronic files are prepared in a way to ensure that your copyright is printed throughout the paper.
Ethical approval
The Editor trusts that the authors follow the guidelines on Ethics in Publishing, in particular in terms of acknowledging the rights of a third party by reference listings. You are also requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article and to briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s).
Contributors
All authors must have materially participated in the research and/or article preparation. The statement that all authors have approved the final article and that all authors are aware of the online publication should be true.
Preparation of the manuscript:
General points We accept most wordprocessing formats, but Word or WordPerfect are preferred. Always keep a backup copy of the electronic file for reference and safety. Save your files using the default extension of the program used.
Wordprocessor documents It is important that the file be saved in the native format of the wordprocessor used. The text needs to be provided within the framework of the template provided for the category which you chose for your submission. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. In particular, do not use the wordprocessor's options to justify text or to hyphenate words. However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts etc. The electronic text should be prepared in APA format.
Please do not change the template provided for the category which you chose for your submission. To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the "spell-check" and "grammar-check" functions of your wordprocessor.
Review Policy All articles appearing in this online journal are submitted to a blind review process.
Parts of the Paper For each paper category the parts required are specified. Also, the maximum length for each part is indicated. Use an informative title for your paper and provide a maximum of 6 keywords which are used for indexing purposes. Insert all figures, figure captions and tables within the text at the appropriate location. Define abbreviations that are not standard in this field at their first occurrence in the article and ensure consistency of abbreviations throughout the article. References should be prepared in APA Style (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Fifth Edition, ISBN 1-55798-790-4). Collate acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article.
Word Limit The suggested word limits for articles are indicated on the templates for the different paper categories.
Author Benefits The authors will be allowed free access to the ILA online publications (Listening Education and The Listening Professional for the duration of one year after publication of their paper.
Submissions:
Mail your submissions to:
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
| 
Listening Education
