Featured Artist: Guillermo Londoño

In his series "What the eye does not see", Londoño paints imagined landscapes that look like our
cultural landscape —his way to denounce the destruction of Nature at the hands of man

Featured artist: Harrison Tobón

His work uses different techniques to explore the representation of urban spaces.

Cover image: Paisajes hechos a mano (2016)

Artist: Diego Sierra Enciso

Sierra Enciso contrasts the present of places and objects and the past hidden within them.

Cover image: Poema azul caos (2012)

Featured artist: Gertrude Martin Laprade

The concepts of "habitability" and "the alive" have a constant presence on her paintings.

Cover image: Entrada al solar, oil on canvas, 90 x 45 cm, 2020.

Artist: Marcela Ramírez Aza

Her abstract paintings use form and color to express both the artist's internal subjectivity
and external reality. Cover image: Gracia 12 (mixed media, 30 x 15 cm, 2013)

Artist: María Morán

Her paintings are influenced by the landscapes of her childhood at the foot of the Galeras
volcano. Cover image: Sábila lejos del cerro (oil on canvas, 1.26 x 1.26 m, 1990)

Artist: Victoria Ortiz

Her engraving work features recurrent themes: women, birds, and the tropics.
Cover image: Exótico (woodcut, 2020)

Artist: Laura Osorio

Her recent work focuses on the interaction between light and darkness on the canvas.
Cover image: Interacción, (oil on canvas, 2015)

Artist: Yina Lopera

Lopera captures in her paintings what the Japanese call komorebi: sunlight filtering through
tree leaves. Cover image: Refugio (oil on canvas, 60 x 90 cm)

Artist: Kindi Llatju

His works offers a glimpse of his natal Manoy, in the Amazon rainforest, by combining painting, drawing, and fiber arts, and using unconventional materials like horsehair and copper threads.

Artist: Óscar López Ospina

Awarded painter and sculptor. Cover image: Abstracción pura 1382 (El vuelo del color)
(oil on cardboard, 50 x 25 cm, 2020)

Artist: Pascual Ruiz

Accomplished master of painting, drawing, engraving, and sculpture.
Cover image: Del mariposeo a la introspección (oil on canvas, 120 x 80 cm, 2009)

Artist: Miguel Arosemena

A leading representative of the contemporary figuration movement through painting
and engraving. Cover image: Espíritu anarquista (oil on canvas, 40 x 35 cm, 2018)

Artist: Tomás Gallego

Through his artworks, he conveys a sense of movement that is an ongoing experimentation.
Cover image: Floración (acrylic on canvas, 45 x 25 cm, 2018)

ISSN (online) : 2145-566X | ISSN (print) 0123-3432
https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala

Íkala, Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal which aims to provide an academic forum for informed and respectful debate on current topics dealing with language, linguistics, literature, translation, and language teaching-learning, among others. From its inception in 1996, Íkala has published articles in several languages, such as English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese, aiming to include a multiplicity of voices and to unravel through them what Íkala, in its original Thule name means —“issues of the utmost importance”.

  • Format: On line
  • Periodicity: Every four months
  • Peer review: Double-blind
  • No APCs
  • Rejection rate: 92%
  • This journal provides open access
 

Authors talk about their articles

Intertextualidad para la competencia literaria: cuentos tradicionales en la educación básica primaria
The impact of a vision intervention on Translation and Interpretation students’ L2 motivation
TikTok/Flipgrid for Foreign Language Learning in Higher Education: A Case Study
Escritura de géneros textuales administrativos en el contexto académico y profesional
The editors of the special issue about audiovisual translation into English, Lydia Hayes and Jorge Díaz-Cintas, talk about changes in this industry
Walter Alarcón-Pereira y Sandra Rojas Molina sobre La comunidad embera chamí en la ciudad de Bogotá: una revisión de literatura desde la sociolingüística

Jhon Eduardo Mosquera Pérez sobre Los académicos alzan la voz: discursos de hegemonía y resistencia en la enseñanza del inglés en Colombia
Las editoras invitadas de la edición sobre Decolonialidad en la enseñanza del inglés en América Latina

Juan Pablo Pino-Posada y Valentina Jaramillo-Appleby sobre la Recepción creativa de obras literarias: un modelo de investigación-creación a partir de la cuentística de Alice Munro
Los gestores del programa "La investigación en la escuela y el docente investigador en Colombia" hablan sobre este dossier

Jacqueline García Botero sobre Aspectos psicosociales y condiciones educativas de docentes de lengua en formación durante el confinamiento por la pandemia de COVID-19
Editores invitados sobre el rol de la tecnología en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de lenguas en medio de la crisis generada por la pandemia de COVID-19

Announcements

Current Issue

Vol. 30 No. 2 (2025): May-August, 2025
View Vol. 30 No. 2 (2025): May-August, 2025

Our featured artist is Daniel Rodríguez Blanco, a promising young artist whose works feed from his studies on decoloniality and literature in an exploration of his identity, by challenging gender roles and connecting with nature. We invite you to let yourself amaze with this sample of his work. 

Published: 2025-05-31

Editorial

  • Presentation

    Luanda Sito
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.361026

Empirical Studies

  • Decoding Validity: Embodied Cognition in Shaping Concepts about Objectivity, Subjectivity, and Institutional Dynamics

    Jonathan Restrepo Rodas, Laura Niño Buitrago, Mercedes Suárez de La Torre
    |Abstract
    = 114 veces | PDF
    = 78 veces| | EPUB
    = 9 veces|
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.355944

  • Academic English Needs and Practices of Faculty and Students at a Public University in Medellín, Colombia

    Doris Correa, Juan Carlos Montoya
    |Abstract
    = 117 veces | PDF
    = 61 veces| | EPUB
    = 4 veces|
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.358410

  • The Influence of EMI on Teacher Identity in a Colombian University

    Kathleen A. Corrales, Lourdes Rey-Paba, Jahir Lombana-Coy
    |Abstract
    = 65 veces | PDF
    = 65 veces| | EPUB
    = 3 veces|
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.356438

  • Assessing the Impact of Language Virtual Exchange Approaches on Intercultural Competence Development Among University Students

    Stefania Arias Cifuentes, Dr. Iris Solano Cahuana
    |Abstract
    = 218 veces | PDF
    = 42 veces| | EPUB
    = 2 veces|
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.355699

  • Virtual Learning Objects in Online English Programs: Addressing Teacher-Centric Orientation and Student Engagement

    Luis Hernando Tamayo-Cano, Jorge Eduardo Pineda-Hoyos, Andrés Felipe Riascos-Gómez
    |Abstract
    = 56 veces | PDF
    = 54 veces| | EPUB
    = 6 veces|
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.358271

  • Didactic Audiovisual Translation in Online and Face-to-face Class Environments. A Comparative Study

    Pilar Gonzalez-Vera, Pilar Couto-Cantero, Noemi Fraga-Castrillón
    |Abstract
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    = 56 veces| | EPUB
    = 3 veces|
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.356066

  • Relevance of Meta Tags and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Strategies in Web Localisation

    Carmen Álvarez-García
    |Abstract
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    = 2 veces|
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.356108

Theoretical Articles

  • Applied Literature: A Proposal for Delimiting the Concept and Classifying its Documented Uses

    Daniel Clavijo, Matilda Lara-Viana, Juan Pablo Pino-Posada
    |Abstract
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    = 28 veces| | PDF (ESPAÑOL (ESPAÑA))
    = 77 veces|
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.359085

Book Reviews

  • Book review : Multimodality Studies in International Contexts, Contemporary Trends and Challenges

    Giovanna Montaner
    |Abstract
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    = 20 veces|
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.358823

Dossier Empirical Studies

Dossier: Theoretical Articles

  • Transtextuality, Transmediality, and Paratranslation

    José Yuste Frías, Óscar Ferreiro Vázquez
    |Abstract
    = 163 veces | PDF (ESPAÑOL (ESPAÑA))
    = 58 veces| | EPUB (ESPAÑOL (ESPAÑA))
    = 7 veces|
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.358654

Dossier: Transtextuality, Multimodality, and Translation in Cultural and Creative Industries

  • Entre lenguas, medios y culturas: el desafío de la traducción en tiempos de convergencia

    Manuela Álvarez Jurado, Gisella Policastro Ponce, Emmanuel Claude Bourgoin Vergondy
    |Abstract
    = 7 veces | PDF (ESPAÑOL (ESPAÑA))
    = 4 veces| | EPUB (ESPAÑOL (ESPAÑA))
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.361249
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