ITL is a refereed journal that welcomes manuscripts in the broad area of applied linguistics, with a strong preference for contributions relating to language acquisition (second language acquisition and foreign/second language teaching, including computer-assisted learning) and educational linguistics.

The editor welcomes manuscripts that creatively demonstrate the connections between ethnographic specificity and theoretical originality, as well as the ongoing relevance of the ethnographic imagination to the contemporary world.

The journal also welcomes manuscripts dealing with methodological issues in neuroepidemiological studies.

Each year between January 1 and April 15, the press welcomes manuscripts in competition for future publication submitted by writers of poetry and short fiction who have some significant connection with the Buffalo-Niagara Falls.

LEAD: The Op-Ed page welcomes unsolicited manuscripts.