Announcements

• A conversation with the producers of the program "Research at the School and the Teacher Researcher in Colombia"

  2022-06-23

  Concerning the dossier "Research at School and the Teacher Researcher in Colombia," published in the second issue, volume 27 of 2022, of Íkala, we would like to share a dialogue held by Ikala's Director Doris Correa with Professors Isabel Tejada Sánchez and Andrés Bautista, both with Universidad de los Andes, about the accompaniment provided to teacher researchers to write and publish their articles.

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• Producers of the dossier "Research at school and the teacher researcher in Colombia" Speak on "Alma Mater a Fondo" about the project

  2022-06-13

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• Submission receipt suspended until new notice

  2022-02-22

  

   

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• Call for Papers for the Special Issue on "Decoloniality and ELT: The South Writes Back"

  2021-11-04

  Abstracts submission by December 1, 2021 to revistaikala@udea.edu.co

  

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• Meet Jacqueline García Botero, the author of FL Pre-Service Teachers' Psychosocial Aspects and Educational Conditions During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  2021-10-15

  This research aimed to identify the psychosocial aspects and educational conditions that influenced the degree of learning satisfaction of 423 students enrolled in a BA in Modern Languages (English and French) at a university in Colombia through technology-mediated ‘face-to-face’ learn­ing (PAT, as per its Spanish acronym). Findings show that students’ learning satisfaction is highly influenced by teacher’s support and structural conditions. These two categories have an impact on other psychosocial conditions that become a challenge for the pat technology. See the author telling us about her article here:

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• A Conversation with the Guest Editors to Ikala's Special Issue on the Role of Technology in Language Teaching and Learning Amid the Crisis Generated by the COVID-19 Pandemic

  2021-10-12

  The guest editors to Íkala's new special issue (vol. 26 no. 3), Professors Marta González Lloret, Laia Canals and Jorge Pineda, talk with the journal's editor-in-chief, Professor Doris Correa, about the Role of Technology in Language Learning and Teaching amid the Crisis Generated by the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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• Call for Papers for the Special Issue on "Decoloniality and ELT: The South Writes Back"

  2021-10-01

  
  

  Guest Editors:

  Carmen Helena Guerrero Nieto
  Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Colombia.
  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4011-788X

  Clarissa Menezes Jordão
  Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brasil.
  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3558-5603

  Gabriela Veronelli
  Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Duke University, North Carolina, USA.
  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7869-1057

  The decolonial turn has been around for about 30 years now in the field of social sciences and the humanities but it is until relatively recently that it entered into the conversations in English Language Teaching (ELT). The upsurge of research embracing a decolonial stance in ELT seems like an obvious consequence of the implementation of so-called “bilingual policies” across the continent, where “bilingual” means basically English. Another recent trend in Latin America has been the push towards internationalization of education, especially higher education, a movement that also seems to place English as “the natural choice” as a medium of instruction.

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• Ikala's Director and Guest Editor Jorge Pineda Talk About the Role of Technology in Language Education During the Pandemic

  2021-09-27

  After the publication of Íkala's Special Issue on The Role of Technology in Language Teaching and Learning in the Crisis Generated by the COVID-19 Pandemic, Professors Jorge Pineda and Doris Correa were interviewed by journalist Luis Javier Londoño from the university radio station. This interview was broadcast last Thursday, September 23 at 8:30 pm on the program called ALMA MATER A FONDO.

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• Extended deadline for submission of proposals for the special issue on Role Reversal: Audiovisual Translation into English

  2021-07-21

  Guest editors
  Jorge Díaz-Cintas (University College London)
  Lydia Hayes (University College London & University of Bristol)

  The new dates are:

  31 August 2021	Deadline for submission of abstracts
  15 September 2021	Contributors notified of acceptance of abstracts
  30 March 2022	Submission of paper
  March – June 2022	Peer-review of paper
  July – October 2022	Authors' corrections and second peer review, if applicable
  November 2022 – April 2023	Copyediting and layout
  May 2023	Publication

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• Call for Proposals —Role Reversal: Audiovisual Translation into English

  2021-05-19

  Guest editors
  Jorge Díaz-Cintas (University College London)
  Lydia Hayes (University College London & University of Bristol)

  In the privileged position of de facto lingua franca worldwide, English has been either the source or pivot language of innumerable translations over the past century, especially insofar as audiovisual texts are concerned. With the arrival of the talkies, the film industry began to be dominated by Hollywood, giving rise to postproduction industries around the globe dedicated to the localisation of imported English-language content. Whereas in countries where English is not a native language these English-language originals were and continue to be mainstreamed on TV channels and in cinema theatres, in the Anglosphere, non-English-language, or ‘foreign’, content was traditionally reserved for art-house cinemas until recent times. The surge of subscription video-on-demand (SVoDs) platforms—such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and HBO—has witnessed a balancing act whereby ‘foreign’ content is now mainstreamed alongside English-language originals. This shift in the distribution paradigm has generated more need for the localisation into English of audiovisual content, which has brought about a growth in the English-subtitling industry as well as the emergence of a burgeoning English-dubbing industry in the US, UK, mainland Europe, and India (Hayes, 2021).

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• How we have celebrated Íkala's 25th anniversary

  2021-04-23

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