Focus and Scope

Kalimatuna: Journal of Arabic Research is focused on of Arabic education. This journal published by the Arabic Education Department, Faculty of Education, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University of Jakarta.

This journal warmly welcomes contributions from students, scholars, and practitioners of Arabic education in Indonesia and around the world. All articles will be reviewed by editors before accepted for publication. All authors will take public responsibility for the content of the manuscript submitted to Kalimatuna.

The focus is to provide readers with a better understanding of Arabic instructional through the publication of articles. Specifically, this journal encompasses original research articles about:

1. Alquran and Arabic language
2. Arabic linguistics studies in micro and macro terms (such us phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics; sociolinguistics, anthropolinguistics, philology, and script studies)
3. Balagah or Arabic stylistic (pragmatics in Arabic and ‘ilm ma‘aniy, rhetoric of Arabic and ‘ilm bayan, figurative style of Arabic and ‘ilm bada«â€˜)
4. Language acquisitions of Arabic language
5. Pedagogical Arabic instructional as a foreign language and for non-native speaker (such us strategy, approach, methods, techniques, teaching model, media and ICT for Arabic teaching)
6. Policies on Arabic teaching (such us language curriculum development, language evaluation and assessment, language testing, teaching material for Arabic lessons)

Section Policies

Articles

• Open Submissions
• Indexed
• Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Kalimatuna: Journal of Arabic Research is a peer-reviewed journal published twice a year since 2022. Manuscripts submitted to this journal should be written in Arabic, Indonesian, or English and should address its main focus and scope, the teaching and learning of Arabic as a foreign language and its related issues. The journal primarily accepts original-research-based manuscripts for its publication and only accepts a small proportion of non-research papers. All submitted manuscripts are subject to stages of editorial process including a double-blind review process. Once a manuscript is submitted to the journal through an online submission process, an assigned section editor will do an initial screening to examine eligibility of the manuscript for a full review process (for example, whether it is in compliance with the focus and scope of the journal). If it passes the initial screening, the manuscript will be blindly reviewed by two reviewers, and a third reviewer maybe added in case the two reviewers have differing opinions on the review results. Considering review reports by the peer reviewers, the journal’s editorial board will finally deliberate on the final decision, whether to accept or reject the manuscript.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...