JLARF

MISSION AND SCOPE

JLARF Conception

It is as certain as gravity that the prevalent pithy and epigrammatic words of ration supporting the conception of most academic journals being put forth by a great many well-known scholars have proven to demonstrate more piquancy than the objective truth underlying the establishment of the academic journals. JLARF, which stands for Journal of Language Assessment Research Foundation, a derivation of LARF establishment, was created by Dr. Esmaeil Bagheridoust in 2023. He later crystallized his insight on the web via jlarf.com in 2024, to set the stage for a many avid, ardent, and devoted academics, researchers, instructors, students, professors, scholars, and lecturers to publish their studies, stream of thoughts, notions, theories, artistic and academic perceptions and conceptions, and ultimately their exploratory retrospections and introspections in all forms of interactive communication. Said forms include but are not limited to writings, videoclips, and audio clips. It is beyond doubt that such valuable works would be the harbinger of fruitful exchanges between the authors’ thoughts and feelings with their prospective readers and critics.

JLARF assumes a wide range of audience as reflected in the guidelines for the authors to break the walls of conventionalism in academia. As cohorts of fairness, equity, and justice, we embrace novel topics which are free from nepotism, hence, we welcome and publish unbiased, impartial and critical submissions of multidisciplinary fields of study; linguametrics and psychometrics in particular.

Mission and Scope

The principal mission of JLARF is manifold, aiming to promote discussions on language assessment and research issues in terms of macro-concepts and practical, situation-specific microconcepts.

In this context, the terms testing and assessment are used in their broad sense, referring to the three major eras of language testing: Classical Test Score Theory (CTS), Generalizability Theory (G-Theory), and Item Response Theory (IRT). Additionally, we put focus on the practical aspects of implementing assessment to actualize assessment in evaluation settings.

As for the research concept, we value both qualitative and quantitative studies. All areas of quantification and number-crunching studies are of special interest of JLARF, however qualitative studies, ranging from ethnographic to phenomenological studies as well as mixed-methods are of equal value to JLARF.

Target Audience

JLARF has a broad and diverse target audience that include:
  • Psychologists, psychometricians, linguametricians
  • Test developers and language educators worldwide
  • Testing professionals working in EFL/ESL settings
  • EFL/ESL instructors worldwide
  • TEFL/TESL instructors worldwide
  • Professors and students of applied linguistics focused on language assessment
  • Researchers and scholars in language schools, colleges, and universities
  • Language testing organizations and institutions

Given the broad target audience, JLARF publishes theoretical and applied articles that address new approaches and notions as well as advancements and procedures that provide innovative suggestions, predictions, and implications.

Scope

Journal of Language Assessment Research Foundation is a professional, respected, peer-reviewed journal that encourages the submission of previously unpublished articles, ideas, notions, perceptions, and article and book reviews on topics of significance to those involved with Language Assessment, Research, and pedagogy. As a journal that represents a variety of language appraisal interests, JLARF invites manuscripts on the following major areas:

  • Classical True Score Theory (CTS): involving Test, Measurement, evaluation, reliability, validity, practicality, impact, item analysis, CRT and NRT, and pragmatic and functional testing.
  • Assessment: involving alternative assessment, authentic assessment, performance-based assessment, peer-assessment, convergent assessment, divergent assessment, portfolio assessment, dynamic assessment, static assessment, interactionist approach, interventionist approach, and performance-based assessment.
  • Generalizability Theory: involving generalizability coefficients, test facet, item facet, residual facet, nested facet, and unidimentionality assumption.
  • Item Response Theory: involving ICC, Item Information Function (TIF), Test Bias, Item Bias, High-stake decision, Rasch-Model Analysis, One/two/three Parametric Test Analysis, Logistic Model, Person Ability in IRT, Item difficulty Calibration, Item Curve Characteristics (ICC), Differential Item Functioning (DIF), and Multi-trait Multidimensional Model (MTMM).
  • Validity argument: involving validity evidence, construct validation, validity as a unitary concept, facets of validity, factor analysis, multi-trait multi-method design, SEE, and Regression analysis.
  • Washback Effect and Ethics: involving test fairness, justice, equity, and ethics in testing.
  • Item Banking Facility, Item and Person Fit Validity Measures, Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT), CALL.
  • Errors, Halo Effect, John Henry Effect, Hawthorne Effect, Performance Prediction, Correlation Studies, Regression Analysis studies, Ex Post Facto Designs.
  • Quantitative Studies: encompassing Research and Statistics in Education, Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Research Studies, Level of Significance, Probability Value, Type I and Type II
  • Qualitative Studies including Themes of Qualitative Studies (Naturalistic Inquiry, Purposeful and Quota Sampling, Empathic Neutrality, Dynamic Systems, Inductive Analysis, Holistic Perspective, Context Sensitivity, and Reflexivity, and Qualitative Inquiry comprising Auto/Ethnography, Constructionism, Phenomenology, Heuristic Inquiry, Ethnomethodology, Semiotics, Semasiology, Hermeneutics, Ecological Psychology, Chaos Complex Theory, Orientational: Feminist inquiry, Critical Theory, Queer Theory.

JLARF is committed to publishing manuscripts that contribute to bridging theory and practice in language assessment and research perceptions. We particularly welcome submissions drawing on relevant research areas such as anthropology, applied and theoretical linguistics, transformative education, holistic education, communication, education, English education, psycholinguistics, psychoanalysis, neurolinguistics, first and second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and sociology. JLARF prefers that all accepted and published articles be available to all through an open access policy. As an open-source journal, JLARF welcomes submissions from English language contexts all over the world.

  • JLARF educational community welcomes articles that reflect novel ideas, creative models, methods, techniques, strategies, materials, syllabuses, means of assessment, approaches to teacher training, and other areas of professional interest.
  • Articles focusing on aspects of the English language areas of knowledge (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, discourse features, etc.) are also welcome, so long as they do not require specialist knowledge of linguistics, and so long as they are not purely descriptive or analytical.
  • We are also interested in receiving articles that describe carefully planned and executed experiments in ELT contexts.
  • We are also glad to receive articles which deal with the issues implicit in English language teaching in context, e.g., the effects of educational policy, aspects of management, the planning and development of projects, review and evaluation procedures, cultural aspects of ELT, and so on

Policy

JLARF is ‘gold standard’ for academic assessment and research studies within the sphere of applied linguistics and practice of language teaching and learning in various pedagogical contexts being scrutinized and examined via peer review by ardent scholars in the field.

The major objective of our cohort is to guarantee and ensure a high level of quality and academic consistency and precision in the articles that are published. JLARF like all academic or scholarly journals is out together with the primary purpose of distribute legitimate knowledge on the latest studies, research, and breakthroughs. JLARF is meant to provide and validate, specific and in-depth knowledge about multiple areas of study and interest for both TEFL/TESL students and experts.

JLARF researchers experience academic writing with multiple valuable drives in mind. JLARF would provide background information, the results of other peoples’ research, the critique of other peoples’ research, your own research findings, and your own ideas based on academic research conducted by others, or it may be a combination of a few of these. To clear the air, we would say that career advancement and profession recognition is the ultimate benefit of publishing yourself in an academic journal. Publishing a research paper is often essential for career progression within academia. A robust publication record can lead to promotions, tenure track, and other professional opportunities, serving as a measure of a scholar’s contributions to their field.

JLARF like other academic journals serve as permanent and transparent opportunities for the presentation, scrutiny, inquiry, and discussion of research. JLARF requires peer review for research articles or other scrutiny from colleagues competent and established in their respective fields. While magazines are written for general readers, a journal like JLARF is meant to be published for academic readers. JLARF articles articles allow researchers to communicate their discoveries, theories, and insights to the academic community and contribute to the advancement of knowledge within their respective fields.

The purpose of the academic journal, JLARF, is to facilitate the sharing of knowledge among researchers (students and researchers) contribute to the improvement of natural knowledge and scientific disciplines within the realm of applied linguistics. Publishing in JLARF can give your research work (report) visibility among other researchers in applied linguistics, outside of your immediate circle of contacts and colleagues. JLARF can make your work more discoverable, as it already being read by circles of interested and engrossed readers.

The content, mission, policy, and guidelines for authors and jurors of the  Journal of Language Assessment Research Foundation will be open to public by the smart rabbits over the pages of the corresponding website.

You can submit your neoteric and unpublished article, research report, article review, and book review in the first VOLUME of JLARF before the end  April 28, 2025.

More detailed descriptions of the submission process of manuscripts are given in “Guidelines for Authors” section as well as “Submission Site”.

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