According to the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology proclamation dated 1397/12/06 and numbered /3/18/311330, the Journal of language horizons was granted full Academic-Research status by the ministry’s publication committee in their meeting of Jan.30, 2019. This status has been applied from Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2017.

Aims and scope: Journal of Language Horizons (JLH) is a scholarly peer-reviewed journal published by Alzahra University. It published original research and review articles on topics related to teaching and learning of English as a second or foreign language and teaching and learning of other foreign languages. It publishes quality papers that contribute to different aspects of the profession including curriculum and teaching materials, teacher training, teaching methods, language skills, and language assessment as well as from the fields of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, pragmatics and other related areas.

Submission of manuscripts should be sent electronically via journal website: http://lghor.alzahra.ac.ir. More information about guidelines for submission and the policy of the journal is provided in other parts of the website. Only articles received online through the site will be sent for referees.

This journal has signed a Memorandum of Collaboration with the Linguistics Society of Iran (LSI)

The Journal follows COPE guidelines.

Owner of the license: Alzahra University

Frequency: Quarterly

Language:  English and Persian

Plagiarism: Several light software is used to prevent plagiarism ;(Samim Noor)

Peer Review Policy: Double-blind 

Average time to review the papers: 8 weeks

The cost of submitting an article: 2500000 Rials, which is received after approval of the article for submission to arbitration.

The cost of printing a paper: 5500000 Rials, which will be issued after the acceptance of the article.

The ratio of the accepted papers to those submitted: 19%

Office Address: Journal of Language Horizons: Ground Floor, Faculty of Literature and Languages, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran 

E-mail: lghorizons@alzahra.ac.ir

Contact us: To contact the Magazine's office on Mondays and Wednesdays every week, at 12-8 am, call 02185692430. At the same time, lghorizons@alzahra.ac.ir is available to answer your questions.

Copyright and License:  

• Copyright on any open access article published by the journal is retained by the author(s).
• Authors grant the journal a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.
• Authors also grant any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details, and publisher are identified.
• The Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 formalizes these and other terms and conditions of publishing articles.
• Journal allows the author(s) to hold the copyright without restrictions.
•  All authors will be presented with the option to make articles available under the terms of This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Non-commercial - No derivative uses of the work are permitted, provided the original work is properly cited.

CC BY-NC-ND

This is the most restrictive license of the six core licenses. 

Open Access Policy:

 This is an open-access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking the publisher's or the author's prior permission. This is under the BOAI definition of open access.

Access to articles from this site is free.

Access to articles from this site is free

 Journal allows the author(s) to hold the copyright without restrictions.

This journal follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws