We commenced publication of our journals from April 2018, and all journals published by Castledown are platinum open access, meaning that there are no publication fees and all articles are immediately available for free to everyone. Every manuscript submitted to a Castledown journal must go through a rigorous double-blind international peer-review process, and only manuscripts that meet the expectations of the respective editors will be published.

All of our journals have their own independent editorial boards that ensure quality of the articles that are published, and all published issues are submitted for inclusion in recognised indexing agencies. A number of our titles are indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, ERIC, EBSCO, and Scopus (please check each individual journal page). More information about open access publishing in our journals is available from here.

Any general questions about publishing in our journals or about creating a new journal with Castledown can be directed to journals@castledown.com.


Effects of Glosses and Reviewing of Glossed Words on L2 Vocabulary Learning through Reading

Effects of Glosses and Reviewing of Glossed Words on L2 Vocabulary Learning through Reading

Makoto Yoshii – This study is an attempt to integrate incidental and intentional vocabulary learning in a reading activity without…
Using Cognitive Linguistic Principles to Encourage Production of Metaphorical Vocabulary in Writing

Using Cognitive Linguistic Principles to Encourage Production of Metaphorical Vocabulary in Writing

Phil Bennett – Learners in academic English environments face considerable demands on their lexical knowledge.
An online training course on the use of corpora for teachers in public schools

An online training course on the use of corpora for teachers in public schools

Awatif Alruwaili – This paper describes the outcomes of a teacher-training course offered to inservice teachers in public education on…
Intercultural education in times of restricted travel: Lessons from the Gaza Strip

Intercultural education in times of restricted travel: Lessons from the Gaza Strip

Maria Grazia Imperiale – This article draws upon a research project on intercultural language education conducted online between 2014 and…
English Trailers v4: An example of an ESL/EFL website that transformed from a testing to a teaching focus

English Trailers v4: An example of an ESL/EFL website that transformed from a testing to a teaching focus

Andrew Johnson – Since the spring of 2003, English Trailers has been a free, online learning environment for students to…
DIY local learner corpora: Bridging gaps between theory and practice

DIY local learner corpora: Bridging gaps between theory and practice

Neil Millar, Ben Lehtinen – Corpus-based research in the past two decades has undeniably had a considerable impact on language…
Estimating Learners’ Vocabulary Size under Item Response Theory

Estimating Learners’ Vocabulary Size under Item Response Theory

Aaron Gibson, Jeffrey Stewart – Perhaps the most qualitatively interpretable vocabulary test score is an estimate of the total number…
Review of Costello

Review of Costello

Nicolas Gromik – Review of Costello.
Multiplying modalities: Opening up the fourth dimension to the online learner

Multiplying modalities: Opening up the fourth dimension to the online learner

Uschi Felix – Computer-mediated communication in educational settings has come a long way in the last decade, culminating in pedagogically…
Language MOOCs: An expanding field

Language MOOCs: An expanding field

Napat Jitpaisarnwattana , Hayo Reinders , Pornapit Darasawang – MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) were first introduced to the wider…
Language learning and activation in and beyond the classroom

Language learning and activation in and beyond the classroom

Julie Choi, David Nunan – In contemporary educational contexts, technology, globalization, and mobility have brought about a blurring of the…
Then and now: Themes in language assessment research

Then and now: Themes in language assessment research

Lia Plakans – This short reflection considers major themes in language assessment research in two years across a decade, 2007…
An essay on internationalism in foreign language education

An essay on internationalism in foreign language education

Michael Byram – This essay is an attempt to introduce into the discourse of Foreign Language Education the concept and…
A developmental framework for online language teaching skills

A developmental framework for online language teaching skills

Ursula Stickler, Regine Hampel, Martina Emke – This article focuses on the need for teachers to develop online skills and…
Engagement with technology: Gaming, immersion and sub-optimal experiences

Engagement with technology: Gaming, immersion and sub-optimal experiences

Alastair Henry , Cecilia Thorsen – This conceptual article focuses on student engagement, and the use of digital games in…
A day in the life: Mapping international students’ language learning environments in multilingual Sydney

A day in the life: Mapping international students’ language learning environments in multilingual Sydney

Phil Benson , Philip Chappell , Lynda Yates – The challenges of gaining access to opportunities to use the target…

Review of Digital Games and Language Learning: Theory, Development and Implementation

Review of Digital Games and Language Learning: Theory, Development and Implementation

Kin Tat, Wong – Review of Digital Games and Language Learning: Theory, Development and Implementation.
Reconceptualizing critical cultural awareness for the context of FL literature education

Reconceptualizing critical cultural awareness for the context of FL literature education

Esther Schat, Ewout van der Knaap , Rick de Graaff – The construct of critical cultural awareness (CCA) is often…
Eroding the monolingual monolith

Eroding the monolingual monolith

Mei French , Janet Armitage – Australian schools are increasingly linguistically and culturally diverse places, and yet, the monolithic weight…
Entangled in two Romance languages: Experiencing language barriers in higher education

Entangled in two Romance languages: Experiencing language barriers in higher education

Dinis Fernando da Costa – Since 2002, which marks the end of the Civil War in Angola, a large multilingual…
Interpersonal meaning of code-switching: An analysis of three TV series

Interpersonal meaning of code-switching: An analysis of three TV series

Huabin Wang – As one of the most widespread linguistic phenomena, code-switching has attracted increasing attention nowadays.
Neural machine translation tools in the language learning classroom: Students’ use, perceptions, and analyses

Neural machine translation tools in the language learning classroom: Students’ use, perceptions, and analyses

Neil Briggs – Web-based machine translation (WBMT) tools have long been used by language learners, but until recently, their value…
Online machine translation for L2 writing across languages and proficiency levels

Online machine translation for L2 writing across languages and proficiency levels

Antonie Alm, Yuki Watanabe – Using machine translation (MT) tools for language learning has become a common practice among language…
Beginning again

Beginning again

Glenn Stockwell – Beginning again.