Focus and Scope

Focus and Scope

Focus

Dialektika: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that disseminates research on language, literature, and language and literature education in Indonesia. The journal centers on the Indonesian language and Indonesian literature, and also welcomes studies of the regional languages and literatures of Indonesia, insofar as they relate to the Indonesian linguistic, literary, and educational landscape.

The journal provides a forum for theoretically grounded and empirically rigorous work by lecturers, researchers, teachers, graduate students, and practitioners. It accepts original research articles (qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, classroom action research, and research and development), systematic and literature reviews, and conceptual or theoretical papers.

Scope

1. Language (Bahasa)

  • Indonesian linguistics: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicography, and terminology
  • Pragmatics, discourse analysis, and critical discourse analysis of Indonesian texts and interaction
  • Sociolinguistics, language variation and change, language contact, code-switching, and multilingualism involving Indonesian and regional or foreign languages
  • Psycholinguistics, first and second language acquisition, and language development
  • Applied, corpus, forensic, and computational linguistics related to Indonesian
  • Language policy, planning, standardization, and the development of Indonesian
  • Indonesian in digital, social media, political, religious, and public discourse; linguistic landscapes
  • Regional languages of Indonesia: maintenance, revitalization, and documentation
  • Translation and interpreting studies involving Indonesian

2. Literature (Sastra)

  • Indonesian literature: prose, poetry, and drama, from classical and modern to contemporary works
  • Literary theory and criticism, including structuralism, stylistics, reception, intertextuality, sociology and psychology of literature, feminist, postcolonial, and ecocritical approaches
  • Regional literature, oral traditions (sastra lisan), classical Malay literature, philology, and manuscript studies
  • Children’s and young adult literature
  • Popular, digital, and multimodal literature; film, adaptation (alih wahana), and transmedia narratives
  • Literature, identity, cultural memory, religion, and social change in Indonesia
  • Literary history, authorship, literary institutions, and creative writing studies

3. Language and Literature Education (Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia)

  • Teaching and learning of Indonesian at all levels, from early and primary education to higher education, including the four language skills
  • Teaching of literature and literary appreciation
  • Curriculum development, instructional design, and learning materials, models, methods, strategies, and media
  • Language and literature assessment and evaluation, including Indonesian proficiency testing (UKBI)
  • Literacy, multiliteracies, critical literacy, digital literacy, and school and community literacy movements
  • Indonesian for Speakers of Other Languages (BIPA): pedagogy, curriculum, materials, and assessment
  • Teacher education, pre-service and in-service professional development
  • Technology-enhanced learning, including artificial intelligence in language and literature education
  • Character, values, and local wisdom in language and literature learning
  • Bilingual and multilingual education, and the role of Indonesian as a language of instruction

Cross-Cutting Themes

The journal particularly welcomes research that addresses:

  • digital transformation and artificial intelligence in language and literature studies and education;
  • multilingualism and linguistic diversity in Indonesia;
  • local wisdom, cultural sustainability, and regional literary traditions;
  • literacy and multiliteracies in changing media environments;
  • character and values education through language and literature; and
  • Indonesian language and literature in international contexts (e.g., BIPA and diaspora communities).

Contribution and Relevance

Studies set in a specific region, institution, or classroom are welcome. Manuscripts should show a clear theoretical, methodological, empirical, or pedagogical contribution, and engage with relevant national and international scholarship. Purely descriptive studies with limited scholarly contribution are generally outside the journal’s priorities.

Out of Scope

The journal generally does not consider manuscripts that:

  • address general education without a substantive link to language or literature;
  • examine educational technology without meaningful implications for language or literature education;
  • describe local cultures, traditions, or folklore without substantive linguistic or literary analysis;
  • report teaching-material or media development mainly through product validation, without broader scholarly insight;
  • replicate earlier studies in a new setting without a new contribution; or
  • concern foreign languages or literatures without a meaningful connection to Indonesian language, Indonesian literature, or the Indonesian linguistic and educational context.