Al-Lisan: Jurnal Bahasa (e-Journal) recognizes that plagiarism is not acceptable and therefore establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) upon identification of plagiarism/similarities in articles submitted for publication in Al-Lisan: Jurnal Bahasa (e-Journal). Al-Lisan: Jurnal Bahasa (e-Journal) will use Turnitin's originality checking software as the tool in detecting similarities of texts in article manuscripts and the final version articles ready for publication. A maximum of 25% of similarities is allowed for the submitted papers. If we find more than 25% of the similarity index, the article will be returned to the author for correction and resubmission.