Journals

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.

What makes students speak Japanese in immersion programs?

What makes students speak Japanese in immersion programs?

Kumiko Katayama , Kayoko Hashimoto – Language immersion programs, which are a form of bilingual education, are shaped by multiple…
Chronicling Indonesian EFL students’ engagement in podcast-based speaking in online learning milieu: A self-determination theory perspective

Chronicling Indonesian EFL students’ engagement in podcast-based speaking in online learning milieu: A self-determination theory perspective

Khusnul Khotimah , Bambang Yudi Cahyono, Deisyi Anna Batunan – The abrupt shift of teaching and learning to the online…
Team New Zealand-Sweden-Germany: A joint venture exploring language learning in digital spaces

Team New Zealand-Sweden-Germany: A joint venture exploring language learning in digital spaces

Vera Leier , Alice Gruber – This paper reports on a study investigating the use of digital devices by language…
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…
A cross-cultural comparison of students’ perceptions of IT use in higher education

A cross-cultural comparison of students’ perceptions of IT use in higher education

Kurtis McDonald – Ensuring the most effective use of information technology (IT) in higher education requires that instructors understand not…
Learner agency and its effect on spoken interaction time in the target-language

Learner agency and its effect on spoken interaction time in the target-language

Janine Knight, Elena Barbera – This paper presents the results of how four dyads in an online task-based synchronous computer-mediated…
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…
Planning, implementing, and evaluating a non-essentialist training programme for study abroad in the Japanese HE context

Planning, implementing, and evaluating a non-essentialist training programme for study abroad in the Japanese HE context

Gareth Humphreys – Short-term study abroad (SA) programmes are often promoted as an effective way of developing English language skills…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…

Pragmatics of email communication between Saudi female students and male professors

Pragmatics of email communication between Saudi female students and male professors

Dogan Bulut – This study investigated the pragmatic elements in Saudi female graduate students’ authentic e-mail messages written in English…
Integration of Moodle Course Management System (CMS) into an EFL writing class

Integration of Moodle Course Management System (CMS) into an EFL writing class

Charles E. Robertson – The implementation of Course Management System (CMS) technologies can have a beneficial impact on course organization,…
The effectiveness of project-based learning utilizing Web 2.0 tools in EFL

The effectiveness of project-based learning utilizing Web 2.0 tools in EFL

Jesse R. Elam, Ben Nesbit – Researchers in the past, such as Jeon-Ellis, Debski, and Wigglesworth (2005), have successfully utilized…
Why tweet when you can bubble? Students’ perceptions of a voice microblog for the development of their L2 spoken production skills

Why tweet when you can bubble? Students’ perceptions of a voice microblog for the development of their L2 spoken production skills

Renaud Jonathan Davies – This study explores the role voice microblogging-based activities play in developing learners’ spoken production skills.
Adopting a dual focus to drive forward the fields of language education and language assessment

Adopting a dual focus to drive forward the fields of language education and language assessment

Heng-Tsung Danny Huang – Adopting a dual focus to drive forward the fields of language education and language assessment.
Review of Intercultural Communicative Competence in Educational Exchange: A Multinational Perspective

Review of Intercultural Communicative Competence in Educational Exchange: A Multinational Perspective

Joana Almeida – Review of Intercultural Communicative Competence in Educational Exchange: A Multinational Perspective.
Navigating theory and practice in intercultural language teaching: Challenges faced by a pre-service language teacher in enacting an interpretive perspective in classroom interaction

Navigating theory and practice in intercultural language teaching: Challenges faced by a pre-service language teacher in enacting an interpretive perspective in classroom interaction

Yvette Yitong Wang  – This paper investigates the author’s classroom practice of implementing an interpretive perspective on intercultural language teaching…
Collaborative story-based kanji learning using an augmented tabletop system

Collaborative story-based kanji learning using an augmented tabletop system

Norman Lin, Shoji Kajita, Kenji Mase – We present a novel augmented tabletop computer system to support collaborative story-based learning…