Guest Editors:
Marta González-Lloret (University of Hawaii)
Laia Canals (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Jorge Pineda (Universidad de Antioquia)

In this special issue, we seek to explore the different ways in which language teachers have overcome this challenge, what strategies they have implemented, what learning activities they are finding effective, what technological tools are being used and with what results. This special issue seeks to contribute to our understanding of how language teachers are successfully adapting their teaching practices to the online environment so that the community of language teaching practitioners come out of the crisis generated by the Coronavirus pandemic stronger and more informed. Authors are invited to submit research (empirical and case studies), theoretical, and methodological papers written in English or Spanish for this special issue.

Guest Editors

Andrés Ramírez (Florida Atlantic University)
Estela Inés Moyano (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Universidad Nacional Guillermo Brown, Universidad de Flores)
Jim Martin (University of Sydney)

Publication: January, 2021

This special issue of Ikala will feature educational applications that advance Halliday’s views in general and SFL genre-based pedagogy in particular. Contributions from multiple settings (k-12 schools, universities, and non-formal education), and programs (first, foreign and second language education; language teacher preparation) are welcomed. Manuscripts should be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese and draw implications for research and practice, linking SFL with related fields and language teaching approaches and methodologies. 

This May-August 2020 issue of Íkala found us all going through a very difficult time as a humanity. We hope that you, our readers, co-editors, guest-editors, editorial and scientific committee members, reviewers and potential authors, are all safe and sound, and can get through this global turmoil not only unhurt but also renewed.

The issue brings a very interesting set of research, and review articles. Additionally, we are featuring a sample of the work by the internationally acclaimed Colombian artist Manuel Guerrero Mora, to whom we want to extend the most sincere thanks for letting us use his work so generously. Thank you, maestro! We believe that his oeuvres are a perfect accompaniment for the articles in this issue, as in many ways these reflect the variety and rigor of our authors' work. read more

Íkala, the Journal of Language and Culture, would like to welcome Doctors Ana Isabel García-Tesoro, Gabriel Quiroz, and Wilson Orozco to our team. Starting this month, they will be acting as Adjunct Editors in our journal, contributing with their expertise in the areas of General Linguistics and Indigenous Languages (Dr. García), linguistic engineering, lexicography, translation, terminology, and CAT (Dr. Quiroz), and Literature, Cultural and Film Studies (Dr. Orozco).