About the Journal

Journal of English Language Studies  (JoELS), published by English Literature, Faculty of Letters, Sawerigading University of Makassar, Indonesia., is an open access  and peer-reviewed journal in English that provides rapid, worldwide, barrier-free access to the full text of all published articles without charge readers or their institutions for access. Readers are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all papers with the aim of supporting a greater global exchange of knowledge. The JoELS publishes two issues per year in March for Issue #1 , and in September for Issue #2 with the ISSN number: 2828-3627; to address outstanding research at the boundaries of applied linguistics, translation, literature, and culture. Our goal is to contribute to the development of the field, reflects the breadth and depth of work in applied linguistics, translation, literature, and cultural studies, and enable readers to share and develop a research that has been written as well as a reference for other researchers who are conducting similar research activities at this time. The JoELS cordially invites all Indonesian and Foreign researchers, academicians, linguists, literarians, and practitioners to contribute to the journal by submitting papers. All papers will be reviewed and evaluated based on originality and applicable regulations. The decision to accept or not is the right of the Editorial Boards based on evaluations from peer-reviewers.