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)

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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”.

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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

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This issue challenges us to open our sight with "What the eye does not see," a painting series by artist Guillermo Londoño, as criticism to the Anthropocene. Learn more about the artist and his work here.

Published: 2025-02-13

Editorial

  • Presentation

    Luanda Sito
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.359850

Empirical Studies

  • Personality and Emotional Charge in the Translation of Breast Cancer Testimonials

    Paula Cifuentes-Férez, Carmen María Pina Cárceles
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.356230

  • Constructing Specialized Definitions: An Assessment of Intracategorial Terminological Knowledge within Disciplinary Integration in an Industrial Engineering Program

    Paula Morgado Fernández
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.355423

  • THEME and INFORMATION Systems in Spanish: A Systemic Analysis of Their Use in Scientific Paper Theoretical Frameworks

    Diana Judith Chamorro, Norma Barletta, Gillian Moss, Jorge Mizuno
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.355569

  • Interlinear Translations Reduce Cognitive Load on EFL Vocabulary Acquisition

    Camilo Andrés Bonilla Carvajal
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.356253

  • Educators in Transition: Unpacking Argentinean Teachers' Attitudes Towards AI in Higher Education

    Laura Inés Bottiglieri, María Fernanda Irrazabal, Carina Ramallo
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.355874

  • Factors Challenging the Maintenance of Spanish as a Heritage Language in Italy: A Maternal View

    Lisbeth Giménez, Ocarina Masid Blanco
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.358277

  • Degree of Openness and Variable Acquisition in L2: (-s) Variation in San Andrés Island

    John Rueda, Alex Ortega Ortega
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  • War in Ukraine in Political Language in the Spanish Media: A Discourse Analysis of Written Press

    Nina Mockova, Mária Spišiaková
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.358151

Case Studies

  • The Role of Emotions in the Construction of Pre-Service English Teachers’ Identity

    Julia Posada-Ortiz, Eliana Garzón Duarte
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.356893

  • Disrupting Rural Local Realities through Inquiry-Based Learning in the EFL Classroom

    Yimmy Alexander Hoyos Pipicano, José Antonio España Delgado
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.355857

Literature Reviews

  • Artificial Intelligence Applications in College Academic Writing and Composition: A Systematic Review

    Adriana Pérez, Steven K. McClain, Alana Farrah Roa, Nayibe Rosado-Mendinueta, Lina Trigos-Carrillo, Heydy Robles, Oscar Campo
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.355878

Book Reviews

  • Book Review: Traducción automática en contextos especializados

    Irene Fuentes Pérez
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.357615

  • Book Review: Translation and Objects: Rewriting Migrancy and Displacement through the Materiality of Art

    Margarita Savchenkova
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.358415
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