Focus and Scope

Glottodidactica. An International Journal of Applied Linguistics focuses on applied linguistics in a broad sense with special attention paid to teaching and learning languages (glottodidactics). It means that although we publish articles on general linguistics, language pedagogy, translation, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmalinguistics/sociopragmatics and other sub-fields, prospective authors should make sure that their texts indicate how the findings discussed by them can be applied to foreign/second language learning and teaching.

In a broad sense, our mission is to facilitate scientific international and interdsciplinary dialogue in the sub-field of glottodidactics and to promote exchange of good practices towards the development of this research area.

We admit submissions in English, German and French, as well as reviews of scientific books and conference reports in these languages.

The journal does not charge authors or readers any fees for submission, peer review, publication or for accessing and downloading articles (Diamond Open Access model). Therefore, we do not have a special waiver policy for low and middle-income countries. We do not profit from subscription or pay per view fees either. 

The information provided below has been updated on 20.09.2026.

Publication process, including details of publishing ethics and review process: Information for authors and reviewers

Two issues per year are published (on the 30th of June and 31st of December) via platform PRESSto. Paper proposals can be submitted throughout the year.

Publication ethics

Open access policy

The publisher provides open access (CC BY-ND 4.0 Międzynarodowe) to all journal content in accordance with the principle that freely available research enhances and accelerates global scientific development and knowledge exchange. Under this license, users may copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, provided appropriate credit is given, a link to the license is included, and no modifications or derivatives of the work are made.

The editors encourage authors to deposit the publisher’s final version of articles published in the journal in open access repositories and databases, provided that they include a link to the journal’s website and the article’s DOI number. Authors retain the copyright to their work without restrictions, granting the publisher  (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) the right of the first print publication. The authors of the texts published in Glottodidactica grant Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use the work and authorize the use of Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) Creative Commons sub-license.

Publication and reviewing process

Articles can be submitted continuously, only through the PRESSto platform. Standardly, it takes about a year to publish a paper with us. Selected papers are published as early birds on the journal's webpage.

The editorial staff of Glottodidactica ensures:

1. proper selection of reviewers who are experts in the thematic area of the article;
2. smooth conduct of the review process;
3. ensuring the anonymous course of the review process on both sides (authorial and reviewer). The journal's editors make every effort to prevent conflicts of interest between authors and reviewers. 

The publishing process is displayed in the figure below.

1. Authors are obliged to disclose any conflicts of interest arising in connection with the potential publication of the text in the journal "Glottodidactica."
2. Personal data and information required by the Editorial Board should be accurate.
3. Authors are required to sign a statement and a licensing agreement prepared by Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and provided to them by the Editorial Board regarding the publication of the article online.
4. Since "Glottodidactica" publishes only original texts, submitting a text already published in whole or in large part will be considered a violation of scientific ethics. In case its fragments have already been published, they should be clearly marked (with appropriate footnote), and the decision to publish the text will be at the discretion of the Editorial Board.
5. Authors are obliged to properly annotate with footnotes the fragments quoted or cited in the text of another author's research or thesis. The same rule applies to the use of AI tools.
6. In case authors find errors in their submitted texts at the review stage or at other stages of the editorial process, they are obliged to inform the Editorial Board as soon as possible.

Peer Review Process: Information for Authors and Reviewers

1. Each text is reviewed by two independent reviewers who are not employed at the Institute of Applied Linguistics of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. When submitting a proposal for an article, the author of the publication has the opportunity to suggest a potential reviewer, but only from abroad.
2. Editorial reviews are prepared in accordance with the principles of "double-blind review", i.e., authors and reviewers do not know each other's names. Reviewers do not receive payment for their work.
3. Reviewers should return their reviews within 12 weeks. In case of other obligations, they may submit the review at a later date.
4. Reviewers who do not feel adequately matched to a particular article or know that writing an appropriate review is not possible for them should report this fact to the Editorial Board and refrain from writing a review.
5. We make every effort to ensure that at least one of the reviewers is employed at a university outside of Poland. Reviewers work independently of each other. Only members of the Editorial Team contact reviewers and authors. In special cases where there is a lack of experts in a given field or language, the Editorial Board may decide to send a given article to one, usually foreign, reviewer.
6. Reviews are prepared in written form (on the review form, see below) and clearly indicate the acceptance or rejection of the text for publication in the journal. Signed reviews by reviewers are the property of the journal and are archived in accordance with applicable regulations, especially GDPR and Ethical guidelines for peer reviewers | COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics, https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.9.
7. In the case of one positive and one negative review, the author is obliged to revise the work so that it is accepted by the reviewer who originally rejected the text for publication. An article approved for publication must have two positive reviews.
8. Authors of rejected articles may revise their texts according to reviewers' comments and resubmit them for publication. Revised versions undergo the review process again.
9. Reviews are provided to the authors of individual texts but are not published along with the articles. Original versions of reviews with signatures are the property of the journal and are archived in accordance with the binding regulations at Adam Mickiewicz University.
10. Review forms are at:
    Formularz recenzji: DOCX / PDF
    Stellungnahme: DOCX / PDF
    Review Form: DOCX / PDF

Reviewers and the review process: More detailed information for reviewers

Reviewer's Code of Ethics

By agreeing to review, the reviewer declares that the review will be conducted independently, objectively, and in accordance with the best knowledge. First, the reviewer receives an anonymized version of the article with an indication of the deadline by which the review should be returned. The review is conducted using the review form. The reviewer has the following options: acceptance of the text, acceptance of the text with suggested corrections, or rejection of the text. By returning the review form with suggested corrections, the reviewer may request to reread the text and accept its final form. Reviewers' names are printed once a year in the Glottodidactica journal and on the website. Reviewers do not receive remuneration for their reviews. The Editorial Board issues certificates of inclusion on the List of Reviewers if requested.

Unpublished materials attached to the submitted text may not be used in the reviewer's research without acknowledging the legitimate authorship. Information and concepts that the reviewer becomes acquainted with during the review process must be kept confidential and may not be used for personal purposes.

To prevent undesirable phenomena of ghostwriting (not disclosing the true contribution to the publication, not disclosing one's own contribution to the publication or acknowledgments) and guest authorship (listing one's name as a co-author with little or no contribution to the work) and to promote honesty and transparency in the review process, as well as adherence to the highest editorial standards, the Glottodidactica editorial team asks reviewers to:

• report any potential conflict of interest regarding the presumed authors of the text they have been assigned to review.
• report any form of violation of intellectual property (e.g., double publication of the same article, etc.) known to the reviewer. 
• to prepare a review that should be logically coherent and maintain an objective tone, with clear and unambiguous conclusions;
• to perform the review within the agreed timeframe;
• to maintain discretion regarding the reviewed text.

The decisive voice in disputed matters between the Reviewer and the Author lies with the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.

This code was prepared on the basis recommendations contained in the document Good practices in reviewing process in science (in Polish), published by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education and in Ethical guidelines for peer reviewers COPE.