The EFLIJ Special Issue Call for Papers (September 2024)
English as a Foreign Language International Journal (EFLIJ): Special Issue
Call for Papers (September 2024)
Multilingualism, Multiculturalism and English Language Education: New Challenges, Needs and Opportunities
Introduction
English as a Foreign Language International Journal (EFLIJ) is a fully peer-reviewed international journal. It provides Open Access to quarterly issues serving the EFL/ESL academic community with no author fees. EFLIJ publishes quality papers which contain a diversity of content, original insights, and up-to-date practical and theoretical knowledge. For its September 2024 issue, a special edition is planned on multilingualism, multiculturalism, and English language education with a focus on new challenges, needs, and opportunities.
Multilingualism, linguistic and cultural diversity are closely related to globalization, increasing transnational mobility and refugee populations. It is important to highlight multilingualism and multiculturalism in English language educational settings, to increase awareness and recognition of linguistic and cultural diversity at individual and societal levels, and to take historical, ideological, social, economic, and political factors into consideration, as well as language policy and the diverse language practices of teachers and students. Multilingual and multicultural education presupposes not only classroom participants’ proficiency in several languages, but also their knowledge and understanding of language acquisition processes, theoretical and pedagogical models, approaches to the development of multilingual competence, teaching and learning strategies, language and content integration, and language policies and ideologies related to language teaching and language use.
Aims and Scopes
The aim of this special issue is to address important research questions in the area of multilingual and multicultural English language teaching. Submissions are invited into the following themes of linguistically and culturally diverse EFL/ESL pedagogy, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Language Teaching
- A mixed-method approach to investigating EFL Teachers’ Views on Multilingualism
- Teaching Culture and Interculturality in ESL
- Teachers’ Challenges and Needs
- Intercultural Communicative Competences in English classes
- Translanguaging and Development of Plurilingual Competence
- Translanguaging as a Resource in Teaching
- Mother Tongue Instruction
- (Family) Language Policy and Translingualism
- Globalization, Language, and Culture:
- Multilingual Families, Mother Tongue Education and Translingual Practice
- Language Policy, Multilingualism, and English Mediated Instruction
- Teaching in Cultural and Linguistic Diverse classrooms
- Community-based curriculum
- Multilingualism, Language Contact, and Linguistic Diversity
- Fostering multilingual learning in minority contexts
- Multilingual Awareness in Language Teacher Education
- Internal and External Factors Affecting Language Teaching
- Teachers’ Perceptions of Teaching in Multilingual Classrooms
Important Dates
- 1st January 2023: Start of abstract submission
- 1st March 2023: Deadline for abstract submission
- 1st May 2023: Notification of abstract results
- 1st October 2023: Full paper submission
- 1st December 2023: Notification of full paper results
- 15th June 2024: Final paper submission
Submission Guidelines
Abstract submission in English
- Title of the paper (Times New Roman 16)
- Full name(s) and affiliation of the author(s)
- An abstract of 300 words in English
- Full manuscripts should be limited to 6,000 words in English including references.
- Text: Times New Roman font 12
- Within a paragraph: no spacing
- The corresponding author’s e-mail address
- Keywords (maximum 4 words)
NB:
- Please email your abstract as an attachment in a Word document or any inquiries to Dr. Sviatlana Karpava at karpava.sviatlana@ucy.ac.cy
- All submitted manuscripts will be anonymously peer-reviewed.
- Full paper submission will be invited after review of the submitted abstract.
Guest Editor
Dr. Sviatlana Karpava, University of Cyprus
Category: EFLIJ
