Journal of English Language and Literature Teaching (JELLT) aims at developing as a pioneer journal for the language, linguistics, literature, and, culture as well as education in the context of Teaching English as a Foreign Language. This summarizes the scope to be relevant to published materials. JELLT accepts manuscripts related to Culture, English Language Teaching and learning, and linguistics and literature, with contents that reflect research reports, systematic review, analysis, studies, application or elaboration of theories, and teaching material development. 

JELLT gained its P-ISSN (2548-7728) in 2016.  Its first issue was published as a printed form as Vol. 1, No. 1, November 2016 under the auspice of the English Education Department, Faculty of Language & Arts, Universitas Negeri Manado with the schedule to publish biannually every June and December (previously proposed March and September). Along with the obligation to have E-ISSN, the journal received its E-ISSN (2599-0373) on 23 November 2017 starting with Vol 2 no 2 which was published online in the Open journal system (OJS) for open access at http://ejournal.unima.ac.id/index.php/jellt/index. Once it happened to be coordinated by LPPM, Universitas Negeri Manado, yet, later following the university policy to activate faculty journals, and JELLT was viewed to specifically relate to language teaching, the journal was assigned to be under the Faculty of Language and Arts again in 2020 and maintained the biannual publication schedule at http://ejournal.unima.ac.id/index.php/jellt/index.  

Since the beginning, JELLT tries to provide highly qualified scholarly articles by toil and ceaselessly improving its contents, format, style, and blind peer review procedure. In its development, JELLT undergoes the regeneration of the editorial team and reviewers due to personnel retirement and availability. Within this context and quality consideration, the journal attempts to restructure and recruit its editorial and review team by involving more experts from various reputable universities and scientific associations in the field of English language and literature teaching including information technology experts as displayed in the current journal website. 

Concerning with the increasing demands to disseminate more qualified research outputs and innovative breakthroughs in teaching English as a foreign language, JELLT is scheduling its three times a-year publications (March, August, and November) after the November edition of 2021 and becoming eleven articles in each edition by strictly keeping the quality of its article selection, the blind peer review process, and global coverage.

Starting from June 22, 2022, JELLT (Journal of English Language and Literature Teaching) is nationally accredited or so-called Sinta Accredited marked by gaining Surat Keterangan Number 05/E/KPT/2022 on 7 Apr 2022 which stipulated that JELLT is accredited and categorized into SINTA 6 commencing with April Edition in 2019.

Due to the University policy, accessibility, and digital compatibility consideration, JELLT  has upgraded its website application from OJS 2 at http://ejournal.unima.ac.id/index.php/jellt/index to  OJS 3.2.1.1. at https://ejurnal.unima.ac.id/index.php/jellt . This means that the edition prior to the current edition remains found on the OJS 2 website, and the edition after the Sinta accreditation is published in the most current OJS 3 at   https://ejurnal.unima.ac.id/index.php/jellt including all of the submission and publication process.