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Language Related Research

  • Editor-in-Chief: Hamid Reza Shairi
  • Manager-in-Charge: Mohammadreza Mohammadi
  • Publisher: Tarbiat Modares University
  • Journal Type: Scientific
  • Publication Period: Bi-monthly
  • Access Policy: Open
  • Publication Format: Electronic
  
Aims and Scope
Language Related Research has been established with a scientific-research objective to advance scholarly thought and studies in the fields of language, discourse processing, and discourse analysis.
The journal prioritizes diversity in theorization, attention to the deep and applied layers of language, corpus-based approaches, references to significant domestic and international research findings, and avoidance of repetition and redundancy.
The journal accepts articles in the following areas: Language Teaching and Learning, Teacher Education, Language Assessment, Comparative Linguistics, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language, Psychology of Language, Discourse Analysis, Materials Development, as well as Learner Individual Differences.
Established: 2010 (initially as Quarterly Journal of Comparative Language and Literature Research)
Renamed: 2013 (to Bimonthly Language Related Research)
Frequency: Bimonthly
Language: Trilingual
Publication Type: Electronic
Access: Open and free access (full text)
International Indexing
Scopus (Q2), SJR, DOAJ, Copernicus, Proquest, Publons, Researchgate, Google Scholar
National Indexing
ISC (Q1), SID. Magiran, Noormags
Ministry of Science Accreditation
International (as of the latest 2023 evaluation) Impact Factor: 0.552
Digital Identifiers
DOI: Available
DOR: Available
Submission and Review Process
Initial Review Time: 7-10 days
Average Article Review Time: 2 months
Similarity Check
Maximum acceptable similarity (iThenticate) in articles is up to 15%
Note: Certificates can be obtained from the Samim Noor site at: https://www.samimnoor.ir/view/fa/Default/صفحه-اصلی
Key Submission Rules
1. The submitted article must not be published or simultaneously submitted to other journals.
2. Simultaneous submission of more than one article per author is not allowed (except for one Persian and one Latin article).
3. Maximum of two articles under review per author (at any stage: received, under review, revision, or accepted).
4. Articles must strictly adhere to the journal's guidelines.
Editorial Team
- Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Hamidreza Shairil, Professor of French Language and Literature (Semiotics-Semantics), Tarbiat Modares University, Email: shairi@modares.ac.ir
- Managing Editor: Dr. Mohammad Reza Mohammadi, Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature, Tarbiat Modares University, Email: mrmoham@modares.ac.ir
- English Editor: Dr. Ali Derakhshan, Professor of English Language Teaching, Golestan University, Email: a.derakhshan@gu.ac.ir
- Persian Specialized Editor: Dr. Seyed Mohammad Hosseini Masum, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Email: hosseinimaasum@um.ac.ir
- Assistant English Editor: Dr. Farzaneh Shakki, Postdoctoral Researcher, Golestan University, Email: f.shakki69@gmail.com
Executive Manager: Ms. Kimia Moradi, PhD student in French, Tarbiat Modares University, Email: kimiyamoradi.199913@gmail.com
Peer-review Policy
The peer review process in this Journal is double-blinded in which the reviewer’s name is unknown to the author and vice versa. Submitted articles go through a structural and subject evaluation to make sure they are in line with Culture and Folk Literature principles. Confirmed papers go through a double-blind peer review by three field experts chosen by the Board of Review based on their specialty
Open Access Policy
Open access and free (all papers)
This Journal’s contents and the articles are freely available to readers without subscriptions or payments through the journal website or its permanent repositories. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, publish, search, and refer to the articles without the permission of the publisher or author as far as the articles are correctly cited.
Publishing Ethics
This Journal follows all the terms and conditions of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws and the law regarding the prevention and prosecution of plagiarism.
Licensing Policy: This Journal is licensed under the terms of international copyright law of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  "(CC BY-NC)"  
Authors fees
Dear authors/ paper contributors, you are being humbly informed that the journal charges 720  thousand Tomans (In two steps: Reviewing: 300 thousand Tomans, and Publishing: 420 thousand Tomans)
Self-archiving Policies for Authors
Authors are permitted to post their work online in institutional/disciplinary repositories or on their own websites. Pre-print versions posted online should include a citation and link to the final published version in this Journal as soon as the issue is available; post-print versions (including the final publisher's PDF) should include a citation and link to the journal's website.
Copyright Policy 
Under open access license, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their content, but allow anyone to download, reuse, and reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy the content as long as the original authors and source are cited properly. 
 Journal Metrics
(https://www.scopus.com/sources.uri)
CiteScore: 0.2
SJR = 0.24
SNIP: 0.582
  Scopus 2nd Quartile: Rank=458/830 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 All submissions to LRR are checked for potential plagiarism using iThenticate.
 
    
The ethical policy of Language Related Research is based on COPE's best practice guidelines for journal editors. Editorial Board, reviewers and authors are encouraged to study these guidelines.

Duties and Responsibilities of Editors
The Editors should evaluate the content of submitted manuscripts whether are in the scope of the journal or not and also should recommend expert reviewers based on their integrated recognition of specialized reviewers.
The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for making the decision to accept or reject the submitted manuscripts to the journal, considering the judgment of editorial board’s members, based on the validation of the work in question, its importance to researchers and readers, the reviewers’ comments, and such legal requirements as are currently in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism with other editors and reviewers.
The Editors should preserve the anonymity of reviewers and authors.
The Editors should disclose and try to avoid any conflict of interest. In such circumstance, they will ask another member of the editorial board to handle the manuscript.
The Editors, especially the Editor-in-Chief should be willing to investigate plagiarism and fraudulent data issues. Editors will take responsive measures when ethical concerns are raised with regard to a submitted manuscript or published paper. Every reported act of unethical publishing behavior will be looked into, even if it is discovered years after publication.
The Editor-in-Chief follows the COPE Flowcharts when dealing with cases of suspected misconduct. If, on investigation, the ethical concern is well-founded, a correction, retraction, expression of concern or other note as may be relevant will be published in the journal.
The Editors must not disclose any information about submitted manuscripts to anyone as appropriate until they are published.
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted paper will not be used by the Editor-in-Chief or the members of the editorial board for their own research purposes without the author's explicit written consent.
Editors should give fair consideration to all manuscripts offered for publication, judging each on its merits without regard to country, race, religion, nationality, sex, seniority, or institutional affiliation of the author(s). Decisions to edit and publish are not determined by the policies of governments or any other agencies outside of this journal.
The Editor-in-Chief has full authority over the entire editorial content of the journal and the timing of publication of that content. 

Duties and Responsibilities of Reviewers
The Reviewers should provide comments that helping editors to make decision on the submitted manuscript to be published or not.
The Reviewers should maintain the confidentiality of manuscripts, which they are invited to review.
The Reviewers should not review the manuscripts in which they have found conflicts of interest with any of the authors, companies, or institutions. They should immediately notify the Editor-in-Chief to declare their conflicts of interest and decline the invitation to review, so that alternative reviewers can be invited.
The Reviewers who feel that is not qualified to review the assigned manuscript or unable to provide a prompt review, should notify the Editor-in-Chief and excuse themselves from the review process. If they know any other expert reviewer(s) they may suggest them to the Editor-in-Chief via dedicated email/comments section in the Reviewer Dashboard.
The Reviewers should not discuss the manuscript with anyone other than the Editor-in-Chief, nor discuss any information from the manuscript without permission. This applies also to the invited reviewers who decline the review invitation.
The Reviewers are bound to treat the manuscript received for peer reviewing as confidential, and must not use the information obtained through peer review for personal advantage. 
The Reviewers comments against invited manuscripts should be technical, professional and objective.
The Reviewers should avoid personal biases in their comments and judgments and they should express their views clearly with supporting arguments which assist the author in improving the manuscript.
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that had been previously reported elsewhere should be accompanied by the relevant citation.
The reviewers should also call to the Editor-in-Chief's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other publications of which they have personal knowledge.

Duties and Responsibilities of Authors
Manuscripts must be submitted with the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, or thesis) and are not currently under consideration by another journal.
Authors are requested to submit manuscripts with sufficient details and references to permit others to replicate the work.
Authors maybe asked to provide the original data of their study for editorial review and should be prepared to make the data publicly available if practicable.
The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the manuscript has been approved by all coauthors.
Only those who meet authorship criteria should be listed as authors in the manuscript as they must be able to take public responsibility for the content.
Authors should at the earliest stage disclose any conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or their interpretation in the manuscript (by uploading the Conflicts of Interest Form along with the manuscript submission).
The authors must ensure that the submitted manuscript describes completely the original work and free from any aspect of plagiarism. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism prevention software for similarity check.
Authors must clearly identify in their manuscript, if their work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent.
If needed, Authors should state in their manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human participants and the privacy rights of human participants have been observed.
In the case of "Need Revision" decision, authors should respond to the reviewers’ comments systematically, point by point, and in a timely manner and, revise and re-submit their manuscript to the journal by the deadline given.
Authors are requested to clearly identify who financially supported the research and/or preparation of the manuscript and briefly describe the role of the founder/ sponsor in any part of the work at the end of their manuscript under “Acknowledgements” section.
It is a condition for submission of a manuscript that the authors permit editing of the paper for readability.
All authors agree to allow the corresponding author to serve as the correspondent with the Journal’s editorial office, to review the edited manuscript and proof.
Under open access license, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their content, but allow anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute, and/or copy the content as long as the original authors and source are cited properly.
When author(s) discover(s) a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the Journal editor or publisher to retract or correct the manuscript. 
All authors must know that the submitted manuscripts under review with The Language Related Research are subject to screening, using Plagiarism Prevention Software. Plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics and in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Duties and Responsibilities of Publisher
"Tarbiat Modares University (TMU)" is promising to ensure that the decision on manuscript submissions is only made based on professional judgment and will not be affected by any commercial interests.
TMU is committed to maintain the integrity of academic and research records.
TMU is monitoring the ethics by Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, Editorial Board Members, Reviewers, Authors, and Readers.
TMU, together with the Journal’s editors, shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of manuscripts where research misconduct has occurred, and under no circumstances encourage such misconduct or knowingly allow taking place.
TMU is always checking the plagiarism and fraudulent data issues involving in the submitted manuscripts and willing to publish corrections, clarifications and retractions involving its publications as and when needed.
TMU Business Model: TMU as the publisher supports the Journal for each published issue by paying a defined budget according to its published annual rank in the Portal of Scientific Journals of Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology for costs including those pertaining to setup and maintenance of the publication infrastructure, routine operation of the Journal, processing of manuscripts through peer-reviews, editing, publishing, maintaining the scholarly record, and archiving.

Violation of Publication Ethics
The Editorial board of the TMU acknowledges that plagiarism is unacceptable in any of its forms:
Plagiarism: Plagiarism is intentionally using someone else’s ideas or other original material as if they are one's own. Copying even one sentence from someone else’s manuscript, or even one of your own that has previously been published, without proper citation is considered by the TMU as plagiarism. All manuscripts under review or published with TMU are subject to screening using plagiarism prevention software (e.g. iThenticate). Thus, plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics.
Simultaneous Submission: Care should be taken to ensure that the work has not been published elsewhere, in any language and is not simultaneously submitted to other journals.
Duplicate Publication: Duplicate publication occurs when two or more articles, without full cross referencing, share essentially the same hypotheses, data, discussion points, and conclusions.
Redundant Publications: Redundant publications involve the inappropriate division of study outcomes into several articles, most often consequent to the desire to plump academic vitae.
Data Fabrication: Data fabrication means the researcher did not really carry out the study, but made up data or results and had recorded or reported the fabricated information. Data falsification means the researcher did the experiment, but manipulated, changed, or omitted data or results from the research findings.
Citation Manipulation: Citation Manipulation implies excessive citations in the submitted manuscript that do not contribute to the scholarly content of the article and have been included solely for the purpose of increasing citations to a given author’s work, or to articles published in a particular journal. This leads to misrepresenting the importance of the specific work and journal in which it appears and is thus a form of scientific misconduct.
Improper Author Contribution or Attribution: All listed authors must have made a significant scientific contribution to the research in the manuscript and approved all its claims. Do not forget to list everyone who made a significant scientific contribution, including students and laboratory technicians.

Complaint Policy
If the authors disagree with the editorial decision on their manuscripts, they have a right to appeal. Authors who wish to appeal an editorial decision should contact the Editor-in-Chief of the Language Related Research. In such cases the Editor-in-Chief will review the manuscript, the editorial and peer reviewers' comments and gives his/her decision for accepting or rejecting a manuscript. Editor-in-Chief may, if so required, send the manuscript to a new handling editor for a fresh editorial review and to new reviewer for further peer reviewing. In such case, the final decision maker will be the Editorial board of the journal.

Language Related Research is not a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) but we are committed to follow the standards and guidelines set out by COPE.​​​​​​
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Director-in-Charge
Motaghizadeh, I; Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature
Affiliation: Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Email:  motaghizadeh@modares.ac.ir
Tel: 82883651
Editor-in-Chief
Shairi, H. R; Professor of French language and literature
Affiliation: Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran​
Email: shairi@modares.ac.ir​
Tel: 82884647​
Editorial Board

Aenehvand, S; Professor of History
Affiliation: Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Email: aeneh_sa@modares.ac.ir
Tel: +98 (21) 82884667
 
Radfar, A; Professor of Persian Language and Literature
Affiliation: Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Email: radfar@@ihcs.ac.ir
Tel: +98 (21) 88046891-3
 
Dabir Moghaddam, M; Professor of Linguistics
Affiliation: Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran
Email: dabirmoghaddam@atu.ac.ir
Tel: +98 (21) 88683703
 
Zahrai, S H; Professor of Russian language and literature
Affiliation: Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
Email: hzahraee@ut.ac.ir
Tel: +98 (21) 61119136
 
Mohammadi, M R; Associate professor of Russian language and literature
Affiliation: Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Email: mrmoham@modares.ac.ir
Tel: +98 (21) 82884608
 
Nikoubakht, N; Professor of Persian Language and Literature
Affiliation: Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Email: n_nikoubakht@modares.ac.ir
Tel: +98 (21) 82884627
 
Mirzaei, F; Professor of Arabic Language and Literature
Affiliation: Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Email: f_mirzaei@modares.ac.ir
Tel: +98 (21) 82886386
 
Rezaei, A A; Associate Professor of English Literature
Affiliation: Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
Email: aarezaee@ut.ac.ir
Tel: +98 (21) 88632188
 
Abbasi, A; Professor of French language and literature
Affiliation: Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Email: a-abbassi@sbu.ac.ir
Tel: +98 (21) 29902446
 
Kiany, G R; Associate Professor of English Literature
Affiliation: Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Email: kiany_gh@modares.ac.ir
Tel: +98 (21) 82884664
 
Motaghizadeh, I; Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature
Affiliation: Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran
Email: motaghizadeh@modares.ac.ir
Tel: +98 (21) 82883686
 
Aghagolzadeh, F; Professor of Linguistics
Affiliation: Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Email: aghagolz@modares.ac.ir
Tel: +98 (21) 82884654

Eslami, Z; Professor of Educational Psychology
Affiliation: Texas A & M University, USA 
Email: zeslamit@amu.edu

Coombe, c; Professor of General Studies
Affiliation: Dubai Men's College, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE
Email: ccoombe@hct.ac.ae
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Manuscript Submission Guidelines

Thank you for your interest in Language Related Research (LRR). LRR publishes bi-monthly in Persian and bi-annually in English and French. It is an open-access journal where all submitted manuscripts undergo a rigorous double-blind review. Prior to submission, authors are highly required to read through the Submission Guidelines meticulously and adhere to the instructions given below. Note that submission is a representation that the manuscript has not been published previously and is not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

 LRR  invites all Iranian and foreign researchers to contribute to the journal by submitting their papers germane to the following issues: Language Teaching and Learning, Teacher Education, Language Assessment, Comparative Linguistics, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language, Psychology of Language, Discourse Analysis, Materials Development, as well as Learner Individual Differences.

 

The articles considered for publication can be in the following three categories:

a. Research articles: The articles should be research-oriented, resulted from the research work of the author(s).

b. Review-analytic articles: Accepted in quite a limited number and only from those top experienced authors in some specific fields, who have already published papers in the field.

c. Critical articles: By those distinguished authors, both Iranians and foreigners, in the related fields.

Manuscript Submission

Authors are required to submit their papers electronically by using the Language Related Research online manuscript submission and peer review system at https://lrr.modares.ac.ir/. The online system offers easy, straightforward log-in and submission process. Inquiries regarding journal policy, difficulty in a manuscript submission, and other such general topics can be sent to the Associate Editor at a.derakhshan@gu.ac.ir.  To submit your work, the corresponding author must register as a user on the journal website. An email message will be sent to the registered author with log-in details, which can be used to submit a paper via the online submission system.

Manuscript Preparation

The manuscripts submitted to LRR should follow the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), seventh edition. The length of the typical manuscript should be between 6000 and 8000 words, including tables, references, captions, footnotes, and endnotes. Manuscripts that exceed this word limit will be critically reviewed with respect to the length.

 

Authors are required to submit two manuscripts. The first one needs to encompass the following elements: manuscript title, author name(s), affiliation, department, email address, phone number, ORCID ID, and a biography of 80 words for each author. If the manuscript is a multiple-authored one, the order of the authors and the corresponding author should be specified. The second file needs to be anonymous, and it must contain English and Persian abstracts, as well as keywords in the main body of the article.

 

Note: Foreign authors are not required to send their Persian abstract.

 

Formatting Guidelines (Manuscript Submission Template) and Writing Style

Manuscripts should be checked for content and style (correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar; accuracy and consistency in the citation of figures, tables, and references; stylistic uniformity of entries in the References section; etc.). Please note the following guidelines.

  • Document size: A4 paper size
  • Font type and size: Times New Roman, 12 pt.
  • Margins on all sides: 2.5 cm
  • Line spacing for the abstract: single
  • Abstract’s word limit: between 150 and 250
  • Line spacing for the body of the paper: double
  • Space before paragraph: 0 pt.
  • Space after paragraph: 6 pt.
  •  First line of all the paragraphs should be indented by one tab key .5 inch.
  • Referencing style: both reference list and in-text citations should be in APA style.
  • Tables and figures: Tables and figures must be inserted in the text, and they must be in APA format.

 

The manuscripts must adhere to the following guidelines as well. Contributors are strongly required to use the template that is available on the Journal website for submitting manuscripts to LRR. Manuscripts that do not abide by the template and its style will not be sent to the reviewers. The abstract should be between 150 and 250 words, followed by three to five keywords, separated by a comma. The abstract must encompass information on the significance of the study, the clear purpose of the research, the methods and materials, the statistical analyses, major findings, and pedagogical implications.

 

The manuscript should be divided into the following sections: Introduction, Review of the Literature (which may include subsections such as the theoretical framework, empirical studies, etc.), Method (including participants, materials, and procedures), Results (Findings), Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgements (in case) and References, and Appendices (if any). 

Note: The end-reference list should be on a new page and double spaced. Please use the hanging indent method for all the references (all lines after the first one are indented).

 

Authors are strongly required to comply with the formatting guidelines specified in the manuscript submission templates. Use the following links to download the template for the English manuscript, and the template for the Persian abstract (for the Iranian authors). Before submitting your article to be considered for publication in the LRR, make sure that it adheres to all guidelines given in this document; otherwise, the Journal Office may reject the paper before sending it out for review.

 

LRR Manuscript Submission Template

LRR Persian Abstract Submission Template

Plagiarism Check

Authors are strongly advised to run a plagiarism check on their manuscript, and they need to upload the file as a supplementary when submitting their manuscript. The Editorial Office also has the right to check the similarity index. By submitting your manuscript to LRR, you accept that your manuscript may be screened for plagiarism against previously published works. Please be informed that LRR takes plagiarism quite seriously , and the authors are cautioned against this. Authors submitting plagiarized material (either from self or from others) will enter a blacklist and will be unable to make future submissions to the Journal and our associate journals.

Note: The similarity index should be less than 10%; otherwise, the paper is not reviewed.

Disclosures  and Source of Funding

All authors are requested to disclose any possible conflict of interest, sources of funding, financial or non-financial interests, study-specific approval by the appropriate ethics committee for research involving humans, and informed consent if the research involved human participants.

 Authorship Principles

LRR and the publisher assume all authors agreed with the content and that all gave explicit consent to submit and that they obtained consent from the responsible authorities at the institute/organization where the work has been carried out before the work is submitted.

 Information on APA seventh edition can be found at https://apastyle.apa.org/

 

For additional information on referencing, please check: 

 LRR APA 7th Concise Guidelines

 



 

 

 

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