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Policies and Practices for Global Multilingualism
Vol. 29 No. 3 (2024)This thematic issue is organized jointly by Íkala, Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, and the UNESCO Chair on Language Policies for Multilingualism (UCLPM). We had the honor to count on Gilvan Müller de Oliveira (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil), Umarani Pappuswamy (Central Institute of Indian Languages, Manasagangotri, Mysuru, Karnataka, India), and Martha Lucía Pulido Correa (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia) as Guest Editors. Accompanying our Babelian issue, is a sample of young Colombian painter Harrison Tobón, whose paintings beautifully illustrate our sections. To learn more about his work, click here.
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May-August Issue
Vol. 29 No. 2 (2024)This issue features artist Diego Sierro Enciso, whose paintings — as well as all of his multidisciplinary work— seek to open a dialogue with Latin American history and society and, at the same time, with everyday life in this region. Find out more here.
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Vol. 29 No. 1 (2024)
This issue has the privilege of featuring Gertrude Martin Laprade—an artist by practice, architect by training, French by birth and Colombian by resistance. Her paintings and drawings reflect the exploration of space, especially peripheral neighborhoods where precariousness drives creativity. You can see a sample of her work, which is also a testimony of her path as an artist, here.
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Vol. 28 No. 3 (2023)
This issue features Master Marcela Ramírez-Aza's abstract paintings. This young Colombian painter has consecrated herself, with her work being exhibited and featured in important international venues. See more here.
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Special Issue: Role Reversal —Audiovisual Translation into English
Vol. 28 No. 2 (2023)Bearing in mind previous traditions and the developments in the English-language localization industry, this special issue strives to invert the Anglocentric lens through which English is the source language and to offer insights into AVT theory and practices with English as target language.
In this issue we publish a compilation of Master María Morán's paintings that showcases her rich evocation of nature and landscape, including an unknown painting made to honor the memory of her brother, Doctor Carlos Emilio Morán. You can view the compilation here.
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Vol. 28 No. 1 (2023)
This issue of 2023 brings with it a sample of Master Victoria Ortiz’ engraving work. Her personal motifs, mastery of diverse techniques, and her particular vision of our tropic can be appreciated in the sample we have prepared for you here.
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Special Issue: Decoloniality in ELT: The South Writes Back
Vol. 27 No. 3 (2022)This special issue deals with a thorny issue that questions the core of deeply rooted assumptions in ELT and proposes a myriad of approaches to English teaching otherwise. The cover and dividers that adorn it display different details of the work "Interacción", by talented Colombian artist Laura Carolina Osorio
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Vol. 27 Issue 2, including the dossier "Research at School and the Teacher Researcher in Colombia"
Yina Lopera is the Colombian artist that bestows a special light on this issue. In her paintings, she captures what Japanese call komorebi, the sunlight passing through flowers, tree trunks, grass, water, shady trails; and the city lights morphing the pavement, a deserted bench, the twinkling city valley amid the shadowy mountains. To learn more about this artist, click here.
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Vol. 27 No. 1 (2022)
This first issue of 2022 is beautifully illustrated by Kindi Llatju's paintings. In all of his work, Master Llatju gives us a glimpse of the Amazonian forest, his place of birth, not only showing its visual richness, but also what is unseen, what can barely be intuited. See a broader sample of his oeuvre here.
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Special Issue: The Role of Technology in Language Teaching and Learning Amid the Crisis Generated by the COVID-19 Pandemic
Vol. 26 No. 3 (2021)This special issue is an attempt to understand how teachers and students reacted to the unexpected teaching and learning situations they faced. We hope it will be of interest to teachers, students, administrators, and language practitioners who want to know how other colleagues worldwide reacted to the COVID-19 measures.
Our cover and dividers display works of the series "El vuelo del color" by artist Óscar López Ospina. We invite you to gaze the beautiful Flight of Color of our Featured artist here.
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Vol. 26 No. 2 (2021)
This second issue of 2021 marks Ikala's 25th anniversary, and we celebrate it bringing to you a wide selection of topics in the fields of language teaching, reading/writing, discourse analysis, and translation. Additionally, this issue is beatifully illustrated by Master Pascual Ruiz's paintings. We encourage you to learn more about Master Ruiz' background and work, by clicking here.
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Special Issue: Appliable Linguistics in Language Education: Systemic Functional Linguistics in Practice
Vol. 26 No. 1 (2021)This special issue of Ikala features educational applications that advance Halliday’s views in general and SFL genre-based pedagogy in particular. It contains contributions from multiple settings (k-12 schools, universities, and non-formal education), and programs (first, foreign and second language education; language teacher preparation). Articles are written in English and Spanish, and draw implications for research and practice, linking SFL with related fields and language teaching approaches and methodologies. The issue is nicely illustrated with oeuvres from the colombian artist Miguel Arosemena. See the artist's biographical sketch here.
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Vol. 25 No. 3 (2020)
This issue features a sample of Colombian painter Tomás Gallego's artworks. Suggestive, bold, and alive, Gallego's works convey a sense of movement that is an ongoing experimentation, where the stroke pushes shape.
See more on his work here.
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Vol. 25 No. 2
Our artistic display in this issue is a sample of the work by maestro Manuel Guerrero Mora. Through his 50 years of artistic career, the Painter from the South, as maestro Guerrero is known, has devoted his life to observing and bringing to life Nariño landscapes. An extensive array of art exhibitions attests to his vast production, now displayed in Pasto and other cities in Colombia (Medellín, Cali, Bogotá, Barranquilla) and abroad (Paris, Ivry, Holanda, Chicago, Miami). His work has undergone successive transformations, which go from the figurative to the abstract. His thematic series South, Tropic, Labyrinths, Exodus, flawlessly executed, are recognized for their technical, gestural, and expressive treatment, and for their manifestation of sensitivity and honesty, which is the result of many years of research, tireless commitment, and intense work (Emma Rodríguez, 2020).
To read the complete review, please click here
