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.

Students’ evaluation of a classroom bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy

Students’ evaluation of a classroom bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy

Simon Thomas – A bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy advocates student’s unrestricted classroom access to their own technology devices to assist in…
Creating translingual teaching resources based on translanguaging grammar rules and pedagogical practices

Creating translingual teaching resources based on translanguaging grammar rules and pedagogical practices

Corinne A. Seals , Vincent Olsen-Reeder , Russell Pine , Madeline Ash , Cereace Wallace – This article describes the…
Implementing optimal spaced learning for English vocabulary learning: Towards improvement of the Low-First Method derived from the reactivation theory

Implementing optimal spaced learning for English vocabulary learning: Towards improvement of the Low-First Method derived from the reactivation theory

Tatsuya Nakata – The spacing effect is known to be one of the most robust phenomena in experimental psychology, and…
EFL instructors’ perceptions of usefulness and ease of use of the LMS Manaba

EFL instructors’ perceptions of usefulness and ease of use of the LMS Manaba

Sean Toland, Jeremy White, Daniel Mills, Doris U. Bolliger – Learning Management Systems (LMSs) have become important tools in higher…
Implementing mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) in an EFL context: Iranian EFL teachers’ perspectives on challenges and affordances

Implementing mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) in an EFL context: Iranian EFL teachers’ perspectives on challenges and affordances

Reza Dashtestani – The implementation of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) has provided tremendous opportunities for language teachers to promote their…
The effects of corpus use on learning L2 collocations

The effects of corpus use on learning L2 collocations

Yoshiho Satake – This study examines the effects of corpus use on learning L2 collocations.
Translanguaging for and as learning with youth from refugee backgrounds

Translanguaging for and as learning with youth from refugee backgrounds

Saskia Van Viegen – Although host countries generally integrate refugees into public education, wide-spread and comprehensive understanding of teaching and…
In-service teachers’ perceptions of technology integration and practices in a Japanese university context

In-service teachers’ perceptions of technology integration and practices in a Japanese university context

Yijen Wang – This current study aims to investigate experienced in-service teachers’ perceptions around technology use for pedagogical purposes in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…

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…
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.
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…
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…
Beginning again

Beginning again

Glenn Stockwell – Beginning again.
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…
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…