About the Journal

Focus and Scope

CASALC Review is a professional peer-reviewed journal of the Czech and Slovak Association of Language Centres. Its mission is to contribute to raising the quality of language education provided by university language centres by creating a space for high-quality academic discussion, critical analysis, exchange of information, and the connection between research and language instruction in an interdisciplinary perspective.

Topics of interest range from major disciplines such as the didactics of foreign languages to related disciplines such as linguistics, psychology and cognitive science. The journal focuses primarily on publishing the results of specific forms of research typical for a university language centre environment, including action research, classroom/teacher research, and exploratory practice. The journal also accepts studies and texts concerning classic forms of basic and applied research.

CASALC Review (ISSN 1804-9435) is published by the Czech and Slovak Association of Language Centres (CASAJC).

Reg. no. MK ČR E 20207

Two issues per year.

Peer Review Process

Contributions designated by the authors as research papers or examples of good practice undergo anonymous peer-review (two reviewers). The reviewers evaluate both the content and style of the contribution.

Reviewers are selected by the editors of a specific issue (members of the CASALC Review Editorial Board) on the basis of their professional and ethical profile, provided that they do not share the same workplace as the authors.

Other contributions are evaluated by the editorial staff.

Open Access Policy

The journal is published in Open Access mode under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. All content is freely available with no user fees. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of articles in this journal without prior permission from the publisher or author. Commercial use of the content is prohibited, as well as modification of the content and its further distribution. Authors are not charged any fees for manuscript submission, processing, and publication.

Revenue sources

The journal is published by the Czech and Slovak Association of Language Centers at Universities (CASAJC) in collaboration with Masaryk University (MUNI). All costs associated with publishing the journal are fully covered by the CASAJC association. Authors are not charged any fees for manuscript submission, processing, and publication. 

Advertising

 The journal may print advertisements at the request of the advertiser if they are consistent with the aims and scope of the journal. The editorial board decides on the acceptance of the advertiser´s request in agreement with the committee of the CASAJC association. Any conflict of interest of the advertiser, where the advertiser is directly the author of the reviewed manuscript or is somehow connected with the organization that places the request is treated by an anonymous review procedure. The editor-in-chief is responsible for its compliance.

Direct marketing

The journal and its editorial board do not use any direct marketing activities, including solicitations for manuscripts. Potential authors can decide whether to submit their manuscript for review based on the call for authors published on the journal's website.

Sponsors

The journal is published in cooperation with the Masaryk University Language Centre.