Hailing from Papua New Guinea, the world‟s most linguistically and socially diverse locale, the JCDS: Journal of Communication and Development Studies (formerly titled the JLCS: Journal of Language and Communication Studies (ISSN... more
Hailing from Papua New Guinea, the world‟s most linguistically and socially diverse locale, the JCDS: Journal of Communication and Development Studies (formerly titled the JLCS: Journal of Language and Communication Studies (ISSN 1992-1322) is published twice a year (June and January) by the Department of Communication and Development Studies at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology. It is interested in research papers falling under two broad disciplinary “umbrellas,” i.e., English for Academic Purposes (EAP)/English for Special Purposes (ESP) and Communication for Development.
Papers covering EAP or ESP can consider any aspect of the areas, including: classroom research, EAP/ESP methodology, course design, material design, genre analysis, rights analysis, critical EAP/ESP, reading and writing, testing and evaluation, computer-mediated language learning, EAP/ESP research, quality assurance of academic programs, and socio-linguistic influences on the teaching and learning of EAP/ESP.
For contributions covering Communication for Development (C4D) topics, the journal welcomes papers on any aspect of the field, including: communication in education, communication and gender, communication in resource management, conflict resolution, negotiation skills, partnership building, communicating development in such sectoral contexts as industries, healthcare, agriculture, and so forth, mass media, democracy and human rights, and media and HIV/AIDS.
Empirical (quantitative) or qualitative approaches to relevant topics are equally welcome. Papers which bridge the two larger fields of interest in an innovative trans-disciplinary fashion are particularly encouraged.
Authors grant the JCDS: Journal of Communication and Development Studies the copyright to their article upon publication, so to foster wide distribution. What this practically means is that if the author wishes subsequently to re-publish the article(s) in another form, full acknowledgement and full publication data of the JCDS must be included therein.
Indexing: The JLCS: Journal of Language and Communication Studies (former title) is presently indexed in OCLC (www.worldcat.org). Under the current title, JCDS: Journal of Communication and Development Studies, it is listed in Google Scholar, ResearchGate, and Academia.
Papers covering EAP or ESP can consider any aspect of the areas, including: classroom research, EAP/ESP methodology, course design, material design, genre analysis, rights analysis, critical EAP/ESP, reading and writing, testing and evaluation, computer-mediated language learning, EAP/ESP research, quality assurance of academic programs, and socio-linguistic influences on the teaching and learning of EAP/ESP.
For contributions covering Communication for Development (C4D) topics, the journal welcomes papers on any aspect of the field, including: communication in education, communication and gender, communication in resource management, conflict resolution, negotiation skills, partnership building, communicating development in such sectoral contexts as industries, healthcare, agriculture, and so forth, mass media, democracy and human rights, and media and HIV/AIDS.
Empirical (quantitative) or qualitative approaches to relevant topics are equally welcome. Papers which bridge the two larger fields of interest in an innovative trans-disciplinary fashion are particularly encouraged.
Authors grant the JCDS: Journal of Communication and Development Studies the copyright to their article upon publication, so to foster wide distribution. What this practically means is that if the author wishes subsequently to re-publish the article(s) in another form, full acknowledgement and full publication data of the JCDS must be included therein.
Indexing: The JLCS: Journal of Language and Communication Studies (former title) is presently indexed in OCLC (www.worldcat.org). Under the current title, JCDS: Journal of Communication and Development Studies, it is listed in Google Scholar, ResearchGate, and Academia.
