Dear readers,
We are thrilled to share with you this special issue. Enjoy!
Lesen Sie mehr über Our special issue on Policies and Practices for Global Multilingualism is now online
Guest Editors
Marleen Haboud Buchamar
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Ecuador, Ecuador
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6966-6375
Ana Isabel García Tesoro
Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6392-0769
Silke Jansen
Universidad de Erlangen-Núremberg, Germany
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7131-5382
The Americas are characterized by a widely language and cultural diversity. Only Latin America has around 42 million people belonging to Indigenous peoples, who speak about 560 aboriginal languages. However, one of each Indigenous groups have lost their mother tongue in the last few decades (Unesco, 2021), up to this day, when 60% of their languages are endangered and risk disappearing. Likewise, the United States and Canada are characterized by a high degree of language assimilation, which can be explained for the most part on English-language cultural dominance.
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Dear community,
We are pleased to share with you this new selection of articles in our new May-August regular issue. 
Dear community,
Ikala’s January-April issue (vol. 29, issue 1) is now online. We hope you enjoy this new selection of articles, some of which were already published as advanced publication and delight yourselves with our featured artist, who has forged her work and life in Colombian urban settings. We look forward to listening to your impressions on our social media.
Lesen Sie mehr über Our January-April 2024 Issue is Now On Line
We are glad to announce that Professor Luanda Sito has taken the reins of Ikala to lead it in a new phase.
Luanda has a Magister and PhD in Applied Linguistics from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (SP), Brazil, and is a newly tenured professor at our School of Languages. Luanda has agreed to take the baton from Professor Doris Correa, but she is not alien to the editorial work since she has extensive experience in publishing and was a guest editor to our 2019 special issue Literacy Studies in Latin America (vol. 24, is. 2). We are deeply grateful to Professor Correa for what seems now in retrospective as a quantum leap in terms of management, organization and academic writing expertise. She is leaving us to undertake another ambitious project at our University. Learn more
Lesen Sie mehr über Ikala greets a new Director-EditorDear all,
Ikala’s September-December issue (vol. 28, issue 3) is now online. We hope you enjoy this selection of articles, which address a variety of texts and contexts and include hot topics such as translanguaging, cosmopolitanism, audio descriptions, subtitling, and many more. See the issue here.
Lesen Sie mehr über Ikala’s September-December issue (vol. 28, issue 3) is online
Continuing the conversation on our last special issue on audiovisual translation into English, Íkala organized a conversation between Professors Jorge Díaz-Cintas (UCL), Lydia Hayes (Bristol University), and our Editor in Chief Doris Correa (Universidad de Antioquia). In it, they discuss various aspects of the mutually enriching relation between the industry and the academia on a hotspot of AVT like Europe today. We hope you enjoy the chat and take a look at the special issue here.
Dear readers,
We are thrilled to present to you our Vol. 28, Issue 2 of May-August 2023. The issue contains insights into AVT theory, practice and research by authors and researchers from a wide range of countries. This issue is a response to the increasing need for localisation of audiovisual content into English driven by video-on-demand platforms.
We hope you enjoy it!
We are happy to announce that Ikala is now in Quartile 1 (Q1) in Scimago Journal Ranking. This is thanks to the continued support of our readers, authors, evaluators, editorial and scientific committees, and the School of Languages and Research Office at Universidad de Antioquia. So, thank you all!
On November 10, the Faculty of Medicine will have a workshop on journal selection.
Then a seminar will be held to guide language teacher students to turn their academic works on publishable articles. The date shall be still determined.
Lesen Sie mehr über Íkala is partnering with University of Antioquia’s Multiliteracy Center to hold workshops on publication in indexed journals for the academic communityThe radio program Alma Mater a Fondo devoted a second broadcast emission to our guest Editors for the special issue on Decoloniality in English Language Teaching. This time, we could listen to Clarissa Jordão speaking about the political implications of following a decolonial approach, and Carmen Helena Guerrero and Gabriela Veronelli speaking about the English teachers' agency. You may listen to their opinions here.
Lesen Sie mehr über Continuation of the Interview on Decoloniality in ELT on Radio Show Alma Mater a FondoThe decolonial approach in ELT provides valuable inputs for revising the teacher's role and national cultures in the field. Last week in the radio program Alma Mater A fondo UdeA, Íkala’s director and guest editors discussed how this can be made possible. Listen to the program here.
Lesen Sie mehr über Ikala's Director and Guest Editors present the Decoloniality in ELT issue on radio program Alma Mater a Fondo
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.
Lesen Sie mehr über Call for Papers for the Special Issue on "Decoloniality and ELT: The South Writes Back"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.
We cordially invite you to listen to the interview here.
Lesen Sie mehr über Ikala's Director and Guest Editor Jorge Pineda Talk About the Role of Technology in Language Education During the PandemicGuest editors
Jorge Díaz-Cintas (University College London)
Lydia Hayes (University College London & University of Bristol)
The new dates are:
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31 August 2021 |
Deadline for submission of abstracts |
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15 September 2021 |
Contributors notified of acceptance of abstracts |
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30 March 2022 |
Submission of paper |
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March – June 2022 |
Peer-review of paper |
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July – October 2022 |
Authors' corrections and second peer review, if applicable |
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November 2022 – April 2023 |
Copyediting and layout |
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May 2023 |
Publication |
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).
Lesen Sie mehr über Call for Proposals —Role Reversal: Audiovisual Translation into EnglishIn its 25-year celebration, Íkala wants to pay homage to the authors of those articles that have been most widely consulted and cited throughout its history, and invite you to a conversation with the authors of the latter on April 30, 2021, 9:30-11am, through the School of languages Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/idiomasudea
Lesen Sie mehr über Celebrating Ikala's 25 yearsSocial Media
