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Featured artist: Victoria García Moreno

To learn more about the artist and her work, we invite you to download the supplement.

Cover image: The threads that bind us together (2021)

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Featured artist: Daniel R. Blanco

Their work is a quest for reconciling non-binary queer identity with the natural world.

Cover image: Naufragio (2024)

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
 

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Mitteilungen

Ikala is glad to announce that a new issue is now online

2026-03-04

Vol. 31 No. 1 (2026): January-April 2026 issue

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In this issue, Nadín Ospina invites us to read global issues in a “pluralistic way” through his hybrid work, masterfully combining sculpture with installation, painting, photography, and video. You can enjoy this kaleidoscopic view of our zeitgeist here.

 

Editorial

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Presentation

Luanda Sito

Empirical Studies

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La paz en la forma de una carta: literacidad, interacción e identidad

Diela Bibiana Betancur-Valencia

Intricacia gramatical em textos gerados pelo ChatGPTem língua adicional: uma perspectiva sistêmico-funcional

Antonio Marcio Da Silva, Lucia Rottava

Bilingualism for Teaching and Learning: Exploring Glossaries at an English-Medium University in South Africa

Sisonke Mawonga

Massed Task Repetition, Written Corrective Feedback and Intermediate EFL Learners’ Writing Development

Mohammad Hossein Ghane

Theatre and Prefabricated Orality: A Corpus-Based Study of English–Spanish Discourse Marker Translation

Olaia Andaluz-Pinedo

Case Studies

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Pedagogía Sorda: estrategias para la transmisión de cultura Sorda en el aula

Maribel González Moraga

Colonialidad y neoliberalismo en la política lingüística colombiana: el caso del currículo sugerido de francés

Lizeth Donoso Herrera, Ferney Cruz-Arcila

Literature Reviews

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Cartografía de publicaciones sobre traducción económica en las Américas: un estudio comparativo

Daniel Gallego Hernández

Theoretical Articles

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Insumos sociolingüísticos para repensar la literacidad como práctica social

Virginia Zavala

Adaptación cultural y estandarización terminológica en la traducción médica: desafíos y estrategias en contextos del español latinoamericano

Hong An

Book Reviews

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Book Review: Introducing Audiovisual Translation

Mahmoud Afrouz

 

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Bd. 31 Nr. 1 (2026): January-April 2026 issue
					Ansehen Bd. 31 Nr. 1 (2026): January-April 2026 issue

In this issue, Nadín Ospina invites us to read global issues in a “pluralistic way” through his hybrid work, masterfully combining sculpture with installation, painting, photography, and video. You can enjoy this kaleidoscopic realization of our Zeitgeist here.

Veröffentlicht: 2026-03-03

Editorial

  • Presentación

    Luanda Sito
    |Abstract
    = 36 veces | PDF (ESPAÑOL (ESPAÑA))
    = 13 veces| | EPUB (ESPAÑOL (ESPAÑA))
    = 1 veces|
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.364159

Empirical Studies

  • La paz en la forma de una carta: literacidad, interacción e identidad

    Diela Bibiana Betancur-Valencia
    |Abstract
    = 68 veces | PDF (ESPAÑOL (ESPAÑA))
    = 40 veces| | EPUB (ESPAÑOL (ESPAÑA))
    = 6 veces|
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.359817
  • Intricacia gramatical em textos gerados pelo ChatGPTem língua adicional: uma perspectiva sistêmico-funcional

    Antonio Marcio Da Silva, Lucia Rottava
    |Abstract
    = 84 veces | PDF (PORTUGUÊS (BRASIL))
    = 39 veces| | EPUB (PORTUGUÊS (BRASIL))
    = 1 veces|
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.358152
  • Bilingualism for Teaching and Learning: Exploring Glossaries at an English-Medium University in South Africa

    Sisonke Mawonga
    |Abstract
    = 32 veces | PDF (ENGLISH)
    = 10 veces| | EPUB (ENGLISH)
    = 2 veces|
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.356129
  • Massed Task Repetition, Written Corrective Feedback and Intermediate EFL Learners’ Writing Development

    Mohammad Hossein Ghane
    |Abstract
    = 22 veces | PDF (ENGLISH)
    = 10 veces| | EPUB (ENGLISH)
    = 1 veces|
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.358144
  • Theatre and Prefabricated Orality: A Corpus-Based Study of English–Spanish Discourse Marker Translation

    Olaia Andaluz-Pinedo
    |Abstract
    = 38 veces | PDF (ENGLISH)
    = 12 veces| | EPUB (ENGLISH)
    = 1 veces|
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.362313

Case Studies

Literature Reviews

Theoretical Articles

Book Reviews

  • Book Review: Introducing Audiovisual Translation

    Mahmoud Afrouz
    |Abstract
    = 43 veces | PDF (ENGLISH)
    = 15 veces| | EPUB (ENGLISH)
    = 4 veces|
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.361595
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