Focus and Scope

Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa is published by the English Department of FBS Universitas Negeri Padang. It is a fully open-access double blind review journal publishing high quality, original, self-contained research articles. The journal provides a venue for the researchers and practitioners to discuss, pursue, and promote knowledge in emerging and developing areas in foreign language, linguistics, literature, and foreign language learning. There must be critical discussion of issues and new and significant contribution to the related field. It accepts English. This journal was firstly published in December 2007.

The editors welcome articles and research reports addressing foreign language, foreign language learning, foreign language literature, and linguistic study, including:

• analyses of texts and discourse;
• studies of semantic systems and cultural classifications;
• pragmatics, sociolinguistics, language typology;
• foreign language learning (ELT, Japanese, Arabic, BIPA, language learning, etc)
• foreign studies of linguistic prehistory and genetic classification, both methodological and substantive;
• translation studies;
• applied linguistics.

Section Policies

Articles

• Open Submissions
• Indexed
• Peer Reviewed

Editorial

• Open Submissions
• Indexed
• Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

All submitted manuscripts go through an internal review and if they meet the basic requirement they are sent out for double blind review from experts experts in the fields. Decision for publication, amendment, or rejection is based upon their reports/recommendation. If the reviewers consider manuscripts unsuitable for publication in this journal, a statement explaining the basis for the decision will be sent to the authors within three months of the submission date.

Manuscripts sent back to the authors for revision should be returned to the editor without delay. The file should be the latest file sent by the editorial staff to see the revision process. Revised manuscripts can be sent to editorial office through the Online Submission Interface. The revised manuscripts returned later than three months will be considered as new submissions.

Following initial review, the editors accept, reject, or call for revision. In case there is a need for revision, the editor may opt to request extended commentary from one or both reviewers in order to clarify what revisions are needed, and will then forward a request for revision to the author. Following revision, the editor may decide to publish, although following major revisions a paper will normally be sent for at least one further review. After acceptance, editorial assistants take charge of proof-reading and formatting.

One of the most important goals of the journal is to keep time from submission to publication to a minimum. With the advantages of the open access format, and the strong commitment of our editorial board to this goal, we aim for a significantly faster time-to-publication.

Publication Frequency

Lingua Didaktika Published twice a year, June and December.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Plagiarism Policy

Lingua Didaktika Editorial board recognizes that plagiarism is not acceptable and therefore establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) when plagiarism is identified in an article that is submitted for publication in Lingua Didaktika.

Definition: Plagiarism involves the "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work."

Policy: Papers must be original, unpublished, and not pending publication elsewhere. Any material taken verbatim from another source needs to be clearly identified as different from the present original text by (1) indentation, (2) use of quotation marks, and (3) identification of the source.

Any text of an amount exceeding fair use standards (herein defined as more than two or three sentences or the equivalent thereof) or any graphic material reproduced from another source requires permission from the copyright holder and, if feasible, the original author(s) and also requires identification of the source; e.g., previous publication.

When plagiarism is identified, the Editor in Chief and Editor are responsible for the review of this paper and will agree on measures according to the extent of plagiarism detected in the paper in agreement with the following guidelines:

Level of Plagiarism

Minor: A short section of another article is plagiarized without any significant data or idea taken from the other paper

Action: A warning is given to the authors and a request to change the text and properly cite the original article is made

Intermediate: A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized without proper citation to the original paper

Action: The submitted article is rejected and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles for one year

Severe: A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized that involves reproducing original results or ideas presented in another publication

Action: The paper is rejected and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles for five years.

It is understood that all authors are responsible for the content of their submitted paper as they all sign the Lingua Didaktika Copyright Transfer Form. If a penalty is imposed for plagiarism, all authors will be subject to the same penalty.

If the second case of plagiarism by the same author(s) is identified, a decision on the measures to be enforced will be made by the Editorial board (Editor-in-Chief, and Editorial members) with the Chair of the Editor in Chief. The author(s) might be forbidden to submit further articles forever.

This policy applies also to material reproduced from another publication by the same author(s). If an author uses text or figures that have previously been published, the corresponding paragraphs or figures should be identified and the previous publication referenced. It is understood that in the case of a review paper or a paper of a tutorial nature much of the material was previously published.

The author should identify the source of the previously published material and obtain permission from the original author and the publisher. If an author submits a manuscript to Lingua Didaktika with significant overlap with a manuscript submitted to another journal simultaneously, and this overlap is discovered during the review process or after the publications of both papers, the editor of the other journal is notified and the case is treated as a severe plagiarism case. Significant overlap means the use of identical or almost identical figures and identical or slightly modified text for one-half or more of the paper. For self-plagiarism of less than one-half of the paper but more than one tenth of the paper, the case shall be treated as intermediate plagiarism. If self-plagiarism is confined to the methods section, the case shall be considered as minor plagiarism.

If an author uses some of his previously published material to clarify the presentation of new results, the previously published material shall be identified and the difference to the present publication shall be mentioned. Permission to republish must be obtained from the copyright holder.

In the case of a manuscript that was originally published in conference proceedings and then is submitted for publication in Lingua Didaktika either in identical or in expanded form, the authors must identify the name of the conference proceedings and the date of the publication and obtain permission to republish from the copyright holder. The editor may decide not to accept this paper for publication.

However, an author shall be permitted to use material from an unpublished presentation, including visual displays, in a subsequent journal publication. In the case of a publication being submitted, that was originally published in another language, the title, date, and journal of the original publication must be identified by the authors, and the copyright must be obtained. The editor may accept such a translated publication to bring it to the attention of a wider audience. The editor may select a specific paper that had been published (e.g. a “historic” paper) for republication in order to provide a better perspective of a series of papers published in one issue of Lingua Didaktika. This republication shall be clearly identified as such and the date and journal of the original publication shall be given, and the permission of the author(s) and the publisher shall be obtained.

The Lingua Didaktika layout editor for the Journal is responsible for maintaining the list of authors subjected to penalties and will check that no authors of a submitted paper are on this list. If a banned author is identified, the layout editor will inform the Editor-in-Chief who will take appropriate measures. This policy will be posted on the website with the instructions for submitting a manuscript, and a copy will be sent to the authors with the confirmation email upon initial receipt of their original manuscript. A sentence shall be added to the copyright transfer form to indicate that the author(s) have read the Plagiarism Policy.

Digital Archiving and Preservation Policy

Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa is fully committed to the cause of digital preservation of scientific research. The digital content of the Journal is extremely valuable and measures are in place to ensure both its current accessibility and long-term preservation.

• All digital Journal content is stored on a secure server which is backed up frequently. In the event of a problem, the back-up will be restored within 24 hours. Lingua Didaktika also implementing PKP Private LOCKSS Network (PLN) preservation function. More info click here
• The articles in digital format are archived on A national library Perpustakaan Nasional RI (Perpusnas)-(IOS), Crossref, Science and Technology Index (sinta), portal garuda, and in the Indonesian Scientific Journal Database (ISJD).
  
• All digital Journal content is stored on a secure server of PTIK (Center for Technology,  Information, and Communication) of Universitas Negeri Padang which is backed up frequently. In the event of a problem, the back-up will be restored within 24 hours.

Journal Licensing Term

Abstracting and Indexing

Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa has been indexed on, among others:

1. DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journal)
2. Crossref
3. EBSCO
4. Garuda
5. Indonesia One Search
6. Sinta (Science and Technology Index)
7. Google Scholar
8. WorldCat
9. Sherpa/Romeo
10. Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
11. CORE: Max Planck Institute
12. PKP Index: Simon Fraser University
13. Mendeley
14. Europub
    
15. Repository Ilmiah Indonesia
16. ROAD: Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources
    
17. Open Archive

Publication Ethics

Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa is dedicated to following best practices on ethical matters, errors and retractions. The prevention of publication malpractice is one of the important responsibilities of the editorial board. Any kind of unethical behavior is not acceptable, and Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa does not tolerate plagiarism in any form. Authors submitting articles to Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa affirm that manuscript contents are original.

In order to achieve best practice, Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa follows the COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers.

The following duties outlined for editors, authors, and reviewers are based on the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE) and covers Code of Conduct for Authors, Reviewers, Editors. Editor In Chief & Managing Editors, Editorial Boards and Publisher will also adhere to the Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa submission guideline policies.

Duties of the Authors

1. Authors should present an accurate account of their original research as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Manuscripts will follow the submission guidelines of the journal. (See submission guideline policies)
2. Have the responsibility of ensuring only new and original work is submitted.
3. Authors must not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently. It is also expected that the author will not publish redundant manuscripts or manuscripts describing the same research in more than one journal.
4. Must not submit any articles that are being reviewed or considered by the journal to other journals simultaneously.
5. Authors should acknowledge all sources of data used in the research and cite publications that have been influential in the research work.
6. Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to conception, design, execution or interpretation of the reported study. Others who have made significant contribution must be listed as co-authors. Authors also ensure that all the authors have seen and agreed to the submitted version of the manuscript and their inclusion of names as co-authors.
7. Authors should provide raw data related to their manuscript for editorial review and must retain such data.
8. If at any point of time, the author(s) discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in submitted manuscript, then the error or inaccuracy must be reported to the editor.
9. Are only allowed to publish their work elsewhere after receiving a formal rejection from the journal or if their request to withdraw their work is officially accepted by the journal.
10. Should make significant contributions and be held accountable for any shortcoming in their work.

Duties of the Reviewers

1. Information regarding manuscripts submitted by authors should be kept confidential and be treated as privileged information.
2. Can refuse to review any submission due to a conflict of interest or inadequate knowledge.
3. Manuscript reviewers must ensure that authors have acknowledged all sources of data used in the research. Any kind of ethical misconduct, similarity, or overlap between the manuscripts under consideration or with any other published paper of which reviewer has personal knowledge must be immediately brought to the editor's notice.
4. Review of submitted manuscripts must be done objectively, fairly, and the reviewers should express their views clearly and professionally with supporting arguments.
5. Must disclose any competing interest before agreeing to review a submission.
6. In the event that a reviewer feels it is not possible for him/her to complete review of manuscript within stipulated time then this information must be communicated to the editor, so that the manuscript could be sent to another reviewer.
7. Should ensure the originality of a submission and be alert to any plagiarism and redundant publication.
8. Must not discuss the content of the submission without permission.
9. Adhere to the time allocated for the review process. Requests for extension to review the submission is at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief.

Duties of the Editors

1. Based on the review report of the editorial review board, the editor can accept, reject, or request modifications to the manuscript.
2. Each editor must ensure that each manuscript is initially evaluated by the editor for originality, making use of appropriate software to do so. Following desk review, the manuscript is forwarded blind peer review to the editorial review board who will make a recommendation to accept, reject, or modify the manuscript.
3. The editor must ensure that each manuscript received by Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa is reviewed for its intellectual content without regard to sex, gender, race, religion, citizenship, etc. of the authors.
4. The editor must ensure that information regarding manuscripts submitted by the authors is kept confidential.
5. The editor will not use unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript for his/her own research without written consent of the author.

Duties of the Editorial Board Members

• Actively contribute to the development and the greater good of the journal.
• Act as ambassadors for the journal.
• Continuously support and promote the journal.
• Review any work assigned to them.

Duties of the Editor-in-Chief & Managing Editors

• Evaluate manuscripts fairly and solely on their intellectual merit.
• Ensure confidentiality of manuscripts and not disclose any information regarding manuscripts to anyone other than the people involved in the publishing process.
• Has the responsibility to decide when and which articles are to be published.
• Actively seek the views of board members, reviewers and authors on how to improve/ increase the image and visibility of the journal.
• Give clear instructions to potential contributors on the submission process and what is expected of the authors.
• Ensure appropriate reviewers are selected/identified for the reviewing process.

Duties of the Publisher

Handling of unethical publishing behaviour

In cases of alleged or proven scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication or plagiarism, the publisher, in close collaboration with the editors, will take all appropriate measures to clarify the situation and to amend the article in question. This includes the prompt publication of an erratum, clarification or, in the most severe case, the retraction of the affected work.  The publisher, together with the editors, shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, and under no circumstances encourage such misconduct or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place.

Access to journal content

The publisher is committed to the permanent availability and preservation of scholarly research and ensures accessibility by partnering with organizations and maintaining our own digital archive.

Disclaimer

The Editors of Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa make every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in its publications. However, the  Editors of Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the Content and disclaim all such representations and warranties whether express or implied to the maximum extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this publication are the views of the authors and are not necessarily the views of the Editors of Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa.