About English Teaching: Practice and Critique
English Teaching: Practice and Critique promotes research and scholarship related to English literacies that are grounded in critical perspectives and a range of contexts, including classrooms, communities, national policies, and wider educational constituencies.
The journal is focused on critical scholarship that investigates systems of power related to the teaching of English literacies in both multilingual and English-dominant settings. English Teaching: Practice and Critique aims to support authors from a range of backgrounds in identifying matters of common concern and to foster broad professional communities and networks. Thus, the journal encourages international and comparative approaches to topics and issues.
View free to access issues published prior to Emerald acquiring the journal (Vols 1-13)
Submission information
Accepted manuscript types and word counts
- Research Article — up to 8500 words
- Teacher Narrative — up to 8500 words
- Editorial — up to 7000 words
- Essay — up to 8500 words
Please see the article types and word counts section on the about this journal page for more information. The word count includes all text, figures and tables. When estimating your total, please allow 280 words for each figure or table. Read more about the article types for this journal.
Reference style
Use the Harvard reference style. Read more about the reference types for this journal.
Keywords
Please include up to 6 short, relevant keywords that describe the main topics of your paper. When you submit to the journal, you’ll be able to choose keywords that describe the main topics of your paper from a list of recommended keywords, or you can add your own.
Peer review type
Double anonymous peer review. All submissions are sent to at least 2 independent and anonymous reviewers.
Open access options
This is a hybrid journal. Hybrid journals are subscription journals but offer all authors the option to publish their work open access. If you choose to publish open access you will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC). Alternatively you can opt for the green open access route and self-archive your article (at no cost to the author). Read more about our open access options.
Accepted languages
This journal only accepts manuscripts written in UK or US English.
Accepted submission files
Article files should be provided in Microsoft Word format.
Closes: 1st September 2026
Call for Papers: Beyond Crisis: Activating Discourse Analysis for Literacy Teaching and Learning
Guest editor(s): Melissa Mosley Wetzel, Kerry Alexander, Molly Marek
Closes: 1st November 2026
The purpose of this special issue is to explore current topics in literacy education around the world by highlighting papers presented at the 2026 International Association for Research in L1 Education (ARLE)/International Federation for the Teaching of English (IFTE) Conference.
Guest editor(s): Andy Goodwyn, Amy Vetter, Audrey Lucero, Melissa Schieble
Closes: 1st September 2027
This special issue is grounded on the basic humanizing principle that communities the world over have long generated knowledge and have leveraged such knowledge across a range of formal and informal approaches to designing research inquiries, data analysis, and pedagogy, particularly when envisioning research and teaching with and for ethno-racially and linguistically diverse populations.
Guest editor(s): David B. Wandera, Angela Wiseman, Vaughn W M Watson
Open access articles
Metrics snapshot
- 2025 Journal Impact Factor (Clarivate)
- 1.2
- Downloaded articles in the last 12 months
- 44573
Publication timeline
- Time to first decision
- 41.7 days
- Acceptance to publication
- 33 days
- Acceptance rate
- 20.4%
