Aims and Scope

Language Teaching and English Literature (LTEL) is an international peer-reviewed journal that covers the most recent research in English Language Teaching and the study of classical English literature (defined as ‘the body of written work produced in the English Language by the inhabitants of the British Isles from the 7th century to the present day (https://www.britannica.com/art/English-literature).')

We publish conceptual and empirical research that aims to deepen our understanding of the relationship between language teaching/learning and the study of classical English literary texts. Areas covered by the journal include, but are not restricted to, investigations of pedagogical approaches using classical literary texts in a foreign language learning context, the intercultural and/or cognitive effects of literature teaching on language acquisition, the historical development of literature teaching, the assessment of learners’ comprehension of literary texts, learners’ and teachers’ perspectives to literature teaching and the pragmatic/stylistic analyses of literary discourse in the context of language acquisition.

Research that explores the relationship between language learning and literature teaching in various branches of linguistics such as applied linguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, text linguistics, semantics and sociolinguistics is encouraged.

We are also interested in interdisciplinary work that investigates the links between literature teaching and cognate disciplines such as intercultural communication, narratology, stylistics, theology and translation studies.

LTEL is an invaluable resource for practitioners, academics and students working in language teaching and literary studies.

The first edition published in October 2025 has a focus on pedagogy and literature teaching seeking to capture a range of views that contribute to both the national and international debates in this area. The articles span the spectrum of empirical and conceptual thinking based on practitioner perspectives and contemporary research.

Peer Review Process

Articles are first reviewed by the editor for appropriateness and, once accepted, are sent for double blind peer review by two reviewers who will recommend publication, request revision or rejection.

The key criteria for review are:

• Evidence of appropriate reading around the presented area
• Evidence of fresh and contemporary thinking around the declared focus
• Internal coherence of presented arguments
• Evidence of conceptual thinking
• Academic competence in writing and presentation
• An absence of plagiarism
• An engaging style of writing
• Appropriate criticality

Editorial Board

The journal of Language Teaching and English Literature (LTEL) has an editorial board whose members have an international reputation, coming from higher education institutions across the world and covering a wide range of disciplines such as literature, linguistics, applied linguistics, intercultural communication, translation studies, lexicology, stylistics and theology. Click here to view the Editorial Board

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate gold open access under a CC-BY-NC licence to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Author Publication Charges

LTEL charges a fee of £600 per article accepted for publication. Without other sources of funding, this allows the Journal to be available in Open Access and accessible to all readers.

You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement with the University of Buckingham.

Self-Archiving and Institutional Repositories

UBP offers a publishing model that enables wide access to academic research, global readership for our authors and ensures the long-term preservation of published content. As a result, we permit authors to archive their contributions to this Journal. This can be either via authors' own websites, or via their institution’s or funding body’s online repository or archive

In addition, all published articles are archived by UBP at a number of repositories including LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, PKP and The British Library.

Abstracting and Indexing Information 

• Crossref
• Google Scholar
• Directory of Open Access Journals

Licensing

Content is available on Open Access basis under the following license: CC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (for more information visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)