Focus and Scope

RETAIN : Journal of Research in English Language Teaching, is a peer-reviewed journal which is officially maintained, published, and owned by Program Studi S1 Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni, Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Indonesia. It is a peer-reviewed and open-access journal in English language education which accepts and publishes manuscripts that explore and/or examine, but not restricted to, the following themes/topics:

• English teaching and learning in general.
• English for specific purposes.
• English for academic purposes.
• The utilization of state-of-the-art or cutting-edge technology for language teaching and learning purposes.
• Language assessment and testing.
• Curriculum and materials design, development, and implementation.

RETAIN accepts research-based manuscripts applying quantitative, qualitative, mixed-method, design and development, and action research.

Peer-review Processes

Manuscripts submitted to RETAIN are received and will be processed by RETAIN's Managing Editor. The suitability and readability of the manuscript will be evaluated internally. If the initial review of the submission indicates that the manuscript has met the technical criteria in full (please refer to Author Guidelines), the manuscript will then be submitted to Turnitin to check the possible cases of plagiarism. If the similarity result indicates that the content of the manuscript is below the threshold, the manuscript will be assigned into peer-review process. Any manuscript assigned to the review process must be treated as confidential documents. Author(s) and/or contributor(s) must not be shown to, or discussed with others except as authorized by the RETAIN editor. The manuscript will be peer-reviewed by 2 peer-reviewers, selected by the RETAIN Editor in Chief. The peer-review process can vary, depends on the peer-reviewers, but it usually takes around 2 weeks to 1 month. In this stage, the peer-reviewers are in-charge to scholarly examine the whole manuscript including the content and the technical presentation, and determine whether the manuscript is eligible to be published as it is, needs major revision, needs minor revision, or declined.

• Accepted as it is.
• Major Revision: The author(s) and/or contributor(s) is requested to submit the revised manuscript within a maximum of three (3) weeks.
• Minor Revision: The author(s) and/or contributor(s) is requested to submit the revised manuscript within a maximum of one (1) week.
• Declined: A declined or rejected manuscript cannot be re-submitted to Retain.

Publication Frequency

RETAIN publishes three times a year (February, June, and October).

APC

There is no either article publication fee or article processing charge. The author(s) and/or contributor(s) is not charged to publish manuscript in RETAIN. There is no hidden cost charged to author(s) and/or contributor(s).

Open Access Policy

RETAIN provides immediate open-access to its content on the principle that making scholarly-processed article freely available to the public provokes a greater global exchange of knowledge. The copyright of any RETAIN article rests with the author(s) and/or contributor(s). As a condition of publication, the authors and/or contributors AGREE to release their copyright under shared licences.