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BASIS: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris

Basis: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris (e-ISSN : 2527- 8835, p-ISSN : 2406 – 9809) in our webstite link http://ejournal.upbatam.ac.id/index.php/basis) is a peer-reviewed journal published biannually by the English Literature Department, Putera Batam University, Kepulauan Riau- Indonesia. The journal publishes research papers in the field of linguistics, literature, and language teaching, such as the Feminist approach in the literature, Sociological approach, Postcolonialism, Structuralism, and Post-structuralism, Popular literature, fundamental of ELT, the sound of word of language, structure, meaning, language and gender, sociolinguistic, language philosophy, historical of linguistic, origin/evolution, experimental linguistics, phonology, syntax, endangered minority language, language and nature, communicative strategy of teaching, linguistic anthropology, psychology of language, field methods in linguistic, interactive of language teaching.  This journal is an open-access journal which means that all content is freely available access without any charge. Everyone is allowed to read, download, copy, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

Current Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023): JURNAL BASIS UPB
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Jurnal BASIS (Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris) or Journal of English Languages and Literature published twice a year, the first publication will be in April and the second publication in October, each issue will publish a minimum 7 articles.

Jurnal BASIS: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris always places Language as a central focus of academic inquiry and invites any comprehensive observation of language with various dimensions in the country and languages all over the world. The journal, serving as a forum for the study of language, supports focused studies of particular themes and interdisciplinary studies in critical discourse analysis. It has become a medium of exchange of ideas and research findings from various traditions of learning that have interacted in a scholarly manner.

The journal follows a peer-review policy. The paper is sent to many reviewers (the experts in the respective field) to review the paper in the light of the journal's guidelines and features of a quality research paper. For papers that require changes, the same reviewers will be used to ensure that the quality of the revised paper is acceptable.

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Since the editorial change in 2019, Journal Basis experienced several changes, one of them was the change in cover design and website appearance