Journal of Foreign Language Research

the faculty of foreign languages and literature at the university of tehran launched the journal of faculty of foreign languages research in 1994 with a view to publishing research papers on literature and foreign language teaching. the large number of submissions, as well as the extensiveness of the foregoing disciplines, foregrounded the necessity of specialisation and compartmentalisation. to that end, the journal has been divided into two separate research journals entitled journal of foreign language research and research in contemporary world literature, both of which are currently published at the ut faculty of foreign languages and literature. journal of foreign language research commenced its activity as an independent journal in 2011 with the aim of publishing research studies in applied linguistics, language teaching and testing, and translation. the academic research rank of jflr has been issued by the bureau of the inspection of national scientific publications c