Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development

About the Journal

ISSN 1657-0790 (print) 2256-5760 (online)

This journal is led by the PROFILE research group at Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras—Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota campus. It is a publication mainly concerned with sharing the results of classroom research projects, reflections and innovations undertaken by teachers of English as a second or foreign language as well as by teacher educators and novice teacher-researchers. Starting from the assumption that our professional knowledge is enriched by different members of our academic community, the journal welcomes papers from different parts of the world, diverse educational levels and wide-ranging contexts. In sum, the Profile journal belongs to the areas of language education and applied linguistics; it deals with topics regarding the learning and teaching of English as a second or foreign language and teacher education in the same field. It is addressed to an international readership of pre- and in-service teachers.

Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development is registered in the following:

Databases: CLASE, Dialnet, EBSCO (Education Source), the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), Educational Research Abstracts online (ERA), Gale OneFile: Informe Académico, Iresie, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts database (LLBA), MLA International Bibliography, ProQuest Research Library, Redalyc, SciELO Colombia, and Scopus.

Directories and indices: The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics), the European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS), LatAm Plus, Latindex, Matriz de Información para el Análisis de Revistas (MIAR), SciELO Citation Index (Web of Science), Sherpa RoMEO, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, and Publindex - Minciencias (classified in category A1).

Profile was first launched in 2000 as a yearly publication. Starting in 2008, the journal became semiannual and, currently, a new issue is published each January and July. Thus, the first issue of each year covers the period January-June and the second issue the period July-December.

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