UST - AJELS

Language use is a fundamental human capacity; it serves as our essential tool for speaking, thinking, and feeling. Language embodies almost everything we do—telling a joke, sharing a story, naming a baby, writing a news report, utilizing voice-recognition software, and the like. Thus, to understand language is to understand the human experience—taking on a world, a culture. Linguists devote their time and effort to address diverse issues even from some little yet important things we do not seem to notice every day. For instance, in the purview of discourse analysis, the natural use of everyday language can be examined, which involves gender differences, language and politics, language and the media, among several others. Contact linguistics, on the other hand, explores what happens when cultures are exposed to different languages. In multilingualism and sociolinguistics, language-studies enthusiasts define what it means to be a multilingual, and describe how the language we use in a social context reflects who we are and what we know about this language and its significance in society, respectively. Therefore, language and linguistics take on an essential role in every human undertaking. It is within this perspective that AJELS has remained faithful in exploring the dynamic and shifting nature of the English language and in encouraging ongoing deliberations on World Englishes, linguistic landscapes, critical discourse studies, forensic linguistics, language documentation, and several other current issues on languages. AJELS, in its own little way, aims to improve the quality of language research, which can help meet our needs and goals for a better society.

It is my pleasure to announce the addition of highly qualified experts to the AJELS team: Dr. Francisco Perlas Dumanig of University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hawaii, USA; Dr. Paul Kei Matsuda of Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA; Dr. R. Dian Dia-an Muniroh of Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia; Dr. Eva Ng Nga Shan of The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong; Dr. Isabel Picornell of Aston University/QED Limited, United Kingdom; Dr. Willy A. Renandya of National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore; Dr. Supong Tangkiengsirisin of Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand; Dr. Xinghua Liu of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China; and Dr. Shaomin Zhang of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China.