Journal Lingua is focused on publishing the original research articles, review articles from contributors, and the current issues related to language and linguistics. The main objective of Lingua is to provide a platform for the international scholars, academicians, and researchers to share the contemporary thoughts in the fields of language, language teaching, and linguistics.It also aims to promote interdisciplinary studies in language, language teaching and linguistics and thus become the leading international journal in language, language teaching and linguistics in the world.

The journal publishes research papers in the all the fields of language, language teaching, and linguistics such as, Phonetics and Phonology, Morphology, Lexicology, Syntax and Language Typology, Semantic, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Grammar Analysis, Historical Linguistics, Dialectology and Language Evolution, Applied Linguistics, Biolinguistics, Clinical Linguistics, Neurolinguistics, Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Forensic Linguistics, Language Teaching, Language Development, Translation, and other related studies of language.

Since 2017, all papers submitted to the journal should be written in good English. Authors for whom English is not their native language are encouraged to have their paper checked before submission for grammar and clarity. English language and copyediting services can be provided by English Faculty . The work should not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. The official language of the manuscript to be published in journal Lingua is English and Indonesia.

Lingua Journal is published two times a year by English Education Study Program Faculty of Teaching and Educational Sciences As-Syafi’iyah Islamic University of Jakarta. The journal welcomes articles on English language teaching and research. Articles should be in English or Indonesian, typed double-spaced on quarto-size paper. The length of the article should be between 15-20 pages including references.Total words should be 3500 – 5000 words, Times New Romans 12, in MS-Word, or compatible applications.