چکیده:
Regarding the lack of consistency among ELT journals to evaluate papers, this
research delves into how journal reviewers address the issue of determining the
optimum paper to be published. In other words, this study aims at proposing a
putative scheme to evaluate the papers submitted to ELT journals on a
scientific and consistent basis. As such, 22 instructors and PhD students,
selected through purposive sampling, were interviewed utilizing semistructured
interviews. The findings of the study were presented in the form of
an evaluation scheme consisting of two major themes as two evaluation
criteria: content-related and strategy-related criteria. The former includes
paper originality, research contribution, innovation and novelty, and method
inclusiveness; the latter consists of succinctness, scene-setting adequacy,
critical synthesis and analogy, implicational justification, and efficacy and
consistency. Implicationally, the results of this study demonstrates that
reviewers across diverse ELT journals have substantial common criteria for
paper publishing, that the ties uniting the ELT journals seeking to publish
articles are strong, and that the potential for future ELT research regarding how
authors inform one another on the criteria is correspondingly robust and
consistent.
خلاصه ماشینی:
<H3>A Putative Evaluation Scheme for Critical Appraisal of ELT Papers Seyyed Ayatollah Razmjoo*</H3> Professor of TEFL, Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics,Shiraz University Abstract Regarding the lack of consistency among ELT journals to evaluate papers, this research delves into how journal reviewers address the issue of determining the optimum paper to be published.
Implicationally, the results of this study demonstrates that reviewers across diverse ELT journals have substantial common criteria for paper publishing, that the ties uniting the ELT journals seeking to publish articles are strong, and that the potential for future ELT research regarding how authors inform one another on the criteria is correspondingly robust and consistent.
1) In this respect, this study focuses on extracting the key categories and themes as the fundamental criteria to be taken into account by journal reviewers while evaluating the ELT papers submitted in order to make accurate decisions about their quality if they are prompted to pose appropriate critical questions concerning the quality of different sections in the papers.
DuRant’s (1994) main contribution in this area is that he presents questions related to the method section of research papers under four study designs, namely experimental or quasi-experimental design, survey or cross-sectional design, retrospective medical record reviews, and case control design.
The studies reviewed shows that no comprehensive study, considering the qualitative paradigm features, using grounded theory approach, benefiting from data saturation and running member checks, has been done to develop a model for specifically evaluating the ELT papers submitted to the journals.