Reflections and future directions in publishing research in English as an Additional Language

 As a research writer it can be very difficult to deal with the pressure of releasing your work in high-impact journals considering that the increasingly prominent evaluation and review systems. In the UK these systems can affect an individual's promotion, departmental funding or the ranking of the university in the country. However, as much pressure as native English speakers are under the researchers that live in countries where English is an additional language are affected far more so. That is because not only do they have to put out articles with great content that is relevant but they also have to meet language requirements that are not very clear and the only way they can improve is by reading sometimes cryptic and indirect comments left by reviewers. Trying to battle this problem PRISEAL [Publishing and presenting research internationally: Issues for speakers of English as an additional language] and MET [Mediterranean Editors and Translators] held a conference in 2015 in a place called Coimbra in Portugal. It provided researchers and publishers with an opportunity to reflect on these issues. During the conference we could see the growing pressure and challenges faced by researchers using English as an additional language, however these problems can be solved by greater understanding of them. Some of these problems are planning of writing, academic plagiarism etc. There’s also one great problem which is language variation. In a piece of research conducted by ESP [English for specific purposes] it shows how language varies considerably depending on the discipline which is being discussed in a certain work. 

In conclusion academic writers that use English as an additional language deal with a big amount of pressure however it is being discussed and steps are made in order to relive some of it. 

Anthony, Laurence. “Reflections and Future Directions in Publishing Research in English as an Additional Language: An Afterword.” Publishing Research in English as an Additional Language: Practices, Pathways and Potentials, edited by Margaret Cargill and Sally Burgess, University of Adelaide Press, South Australia, 2017, pp. 255–258. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.20851/j.ctt1t305cq.19. Accessed 18 May 2021.