About the Journal

MACCA: Journal of Education, Language, and Culture welcomes original research articles, theoretical studies, conceptual papers, and scholarly works addressing contemporary issues in education, language, and culture. The journal encourages interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies that contribute to the development of knowledge, educational practice, linguistic understanding, and cultural transformation.

The journal covers the following areas:

1. Education

This area focuses on educational processes, practices, institutions, policies, and systems, including:

  • Educational theory and practice
  • English Language Education
  • Curriculum development and instructional design
  • Teaching and learning strategies and methodologies
  • Teacher education and professional development
  • Student learning, engagement, and development
  • Educational assessment and evaluation
  • Educational leadership and management
  • Human resource development
  • Educational technology and digital learning
  • Inclusive and competency-based education
  • Transformative and innovative education
  • Higher education and educational policy
  • Educational psychology and learning sciences
  • Lifelong and continuing education

Studies in English Language Education are included under Education when their primary focus is on teaching and learning processes, pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, teachers, learners, educational technology, or educational institutions.

2. Language

This area focuses on language as a linguistic, communicative, cognitive, and social phenomenon, including:

  • Linguistics and phonetics
  • Morphology, syntax, and semantics
  • Pragmatics and discourse analysis
  • Sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics
  • Applied linguistics
  • Second and foreign language acquisition
  • Language use, variation, and change
  • Language assessment and language proficiency
  • Translation and interpretation
  • Communication and rhetoric
  • Language policy and planning
  • Language, identity, and society
  • Corpus linguistics and computational linguistics
  • Multilingualism and language contact

Studies involving English or other languages are included under Language when their primary focus is on linguistic structures, language use, acquisition, variation, discourse, communication, or other linguistic phenomena rather than educational processes or pedagogical interventions.

3. Culture

This area focuses on culture as a system of values, meanings, identities, practices, knowledge, and social expressions, including:

  • Cultural anthropology and sociology
  • Cultural history and philosophy
  • Cultural studies
  • Cultural arts and literature
  • Cultural education and character development
  • Cultural identity and representation
  • Intercultural communication
  • Local, indigenous, and community cultures
  • Culture, society, and education
  • Culture, language, and identity
  • Cultural heritage and preservation
  • Cultural transformation and globalization
  • Cultural dynamics and social change
  • Religion, values, and cultural practices
  • Popular culture and contemporary cultural studies

Studies are included under Culture when their primary focus is on cultural values, beliefs, identities, social practices, heritage, representation, intercultural relations, or processes of cultural transformation.

Interdisciplinary Studies

MACCA welcomes interdisciplinary research that connects two or more of its core areas. For interdisciplinary manuscripts, the primary area of the study is determined by its main research question, theoretical framework, methodology, and principal contribution.

As a general guideline:

  • Education: research primarily concerned with how education is designed, implemented, experienced, or evaluated.
  • Language: research primarily concerned with how language functions, is used, acquired, or analyzed.
  • Culture: research primarily concerned with values, identity, cultural practices, meanings, or cultural transformation.

Through this scope, MACCA: Journal of Education, Language, and Culture provides a scholarly platform for research that advances understanding of education, language, and culture and their interconnected roles in contemporary society.