About the Journal
The journal Foreign Languages in Higher Education of Yerevan State University is one of the leading scientific periodicals in Armenia based on fundamental traditions of interdisciplinary academic research and conceptualization. It is the successor of “Foreign Languages. Foreign Literature” published in 1981-1991. Since 1995 by the decision of YSU Scientific Council it has been published under the title “Foreign Languages in Higher Education”.
Aims and scope of the journal
Foreign Languages in Higher Education is a peer-reviewed, open access journal published by the Faculty of European Languages and Communication at Yerevan State University. The journal welcomes contributions on all aspects of linguistics (both theoretical and applied), literary and cultural studies, and multimodal communication. We also welcome research papers focused on foreign language teaching methodology. The aim of the journal is to provide a forum for interdisciplinary research, inquiry and debate within the area of foreign language studies through the exchange, crisscrossing and intersecting of opinions and diverse views. It is expected that any paper submitted to the Journal is original and has not been previously published.
The journal does not charge any publication fees to authors or their institutions.
The Editorial Board of the Journal always looks into widening the range of the authors, inviting the researchers from universities all around the world, and accepts papers written in English, French, German, Russian and Armenian.
The journal is involved in the list of peer-reviewed journals approved by the State commission on higher education. All papers published are placed on the website of Yerevan State University (publications.ysu.am), openly and freely accessible to the academic community. Submission and publication of the manuscripts are free of charge.
The editorial board includes leading specialists from Armenia, as well as representatives of other universities and scientific communities from abroad.
Peer Review Policy
Papers sent to FLHE journal should not be submitted elsewhere for evaluation or publication.
All papers undergo rigorous peer review to ensure quality and originality, based on initial editor screening (if the article does not comply with the subject-matter, topics and the interests of the journal and does not follow the Author Guidelines, it is excluded from revision, and the author is being notified about it).
Papers are blind peer reviewed by at least two anonymous referees, experts in the field. The process of reviewing and approving papers takes from 1 to 2 months. If the blind peer-review is successful, the paper will be deposited in the repository, if it is unsuccessful it will be returned to the author with editorial comments.
Final decision to include the paper in the journal is made by the editorial board members.
Submissions are evaluated along the following criteria:
Relevance and importance to FLHE readers
Adequacy of conceptual framework
Appropriateness and competence of the method(s) of the analysis
Reasonableness of interpretations and conclusions
Links between theory and practice
Originality of contribution
Clarity of organization and vigour of style (The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines).
Plagiarism Policy
The authors should guarantee that the works they have submitted are original. If the authors have used any part of published papers, appropriate references are required. The similarity rate of each submission is checked: all incoming papers are subjected to screening for plagiarism using similarity check tools.
