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
 

Authors talk about their articles

Intertextualidad para la competencia literaria: cuentos tradicionales en la educación básica primaria
The impact of a vision intervention on Translation and Interpretation students’ L2 motivation
TikTok/Flipgrid for Foreign Language Learning in Higher Education: A Case Study
Escritura de géneros textuales administrativos en el contexto académico y profesional
The editors of the special issue about audiovisual translation into English, Lydia Hayes and Jorge Díaz-Cintas, talk about changes in this industry
Walter Alarcón-Pereira y Sandra Rojas Molina sobre La comunidad embera chamí en la ciudad de Bogotá: una revisión de literatura desde la sociolingüística

Jhon Eduardo Mosquera Pérez sobre Los académicos alzan la voz: discursos de hegemonía y resistencia en la enseñanza del inglés en Colombia
Las editoras invitadas de la edición sobre Decolonialidad en la enseñanza del inglés en América Latina

Juan Pablo Pino-Posada y Valentina Jaramillo-Appleby sobre la Recepción creativa de obras literarias: un modelo de investigación-creación a partir de la cuentística de Alice Munro
Los gestores del programa "La investigación en la escuela y el docente investigador en Colombia" hablan sobre este dossier

Jacqueline García Botero sobre Aspectos psicosociales y condiciones educativas de docentes de lengua en formación durante el confinamiento por la pandemia de COVID-19
Editores invitados sobre el rol de la tecnología en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de lenguas en medio de la crisis generada por la pandemia de COVID-19

Announcements

Current Issue

Vol. 29 No. 3 (2024): Policies and Practices for Global Multilingualism
©Harrison Tobón, Paisajes hechos a mano (Acrílico sobre lienzo, 130 x 170 cm, 2016)

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.

Published: 2024-10-17

Full Issue

Editorial

  • "Paisajes latinoamericanos", artwork by Harrison Tobón.

    Policies and Practices for Global Multilingualism

    Gilvan Müller de Oliveira, Umarani Pappuswamy, Martha Lucía Pulido Correa
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.358582

Empirical Studies

  • Multilingual Policies and Practices in Higher Education: A Nation-Wide Exploration in Colombia

    Norbella Miranda, Sandra Ximena Bonilla-Medina, Jaime A. Usma Wilches, Carmelina Encarnación, Ederson Silva-Londoño, Ligia Martínez Bula
    e2357019
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.357019

  • Localisation Loss in the French Versions of Websites from the Andalusian Agri-Food Sector

    Cristina de las Montañas Ramírez-Delgado
    e3356316
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.356316

Case Studies

  • Painting by Harrison Tobón, "Lo humano en la montaña"

    Linguistic and Textual Characteristics of Film Audio Description in Uruguay

    Soledad Álvarez Lamas, Mayte Victoria Gorrostorrazo Babuglia
    e4356115
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.356115

  • Language Policies Towards Spanish in Trinidad & Tobago and the Philippines: An Exploratory Study

    Antony Hoyte-West
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.356250

  • Romanian Medicine Schools as Multilingual Spaces: Challenges in New Diploma Migrations

    Anamaria Ioniță, Monica Vlad
    e6356120
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.356120

  • From Exclusion to Active Intergenerational Participation: A Dubbing Project in a Minoritised Indigenous Language

    Maria Montroy, Inés María García-Azkoaga
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.356014

  • Visions of the Earth: Colombian Indigenous Women Learning English from a Gender-Based and Multilingual Perspective

    Angela Patricia Velásquez-Hoyos, Zoila Liliana Giraldo-Martinez
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.356070

  • Stakeholder Perspectives on the Integration of African Languages in Higher Education Learning: A South African Case Study

    Wanga Gambushe
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.356130

  • Study Abroad Programming in Writing Centers in Colombia and the USA: Lessons in Translanguaging, Decolonial Theory, and Programming

    Rodrigo A. Rodríguez-Fuentes, Harry Denny
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.356088

  • Perspectives and Trends in Foreign Language Policies in China: The Case of Portuguese

    Júlio Reis Jatobá
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.356580

Literature Reviews

Theoretical Articles

  • Painting by Harrison Tobón, "Cerros Orientales desde la Universidad Nacional de Colombia"

    Epistemological Challenges of Plurilingualism for Diversifying French Language Teaching

    Carolina Villada Castro
    e12355483
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.355483

  • On the Emergence of the Concept of “Linguistic Rights” in Brazilian Legal Doctrine

    Marcos Paulo Santa Rosa Matos, Maria Leônia Garcia Costa Carvalho
    e13355855
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.355855

  • Bridging Linguistic Divides? A Critical Exploration of Machine Translation’s Role in Fostering Cross-Cultural Accessibility in Literature

    Gys-Walt van Egdom
    e14356102
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.356102

Book Reviews

  • Edifico Garcia Barranquilla Acuarela sobre papel 70 x 50 cm Año 2018

    Book Review: The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism

    María Luisa Valencia
    e16358601
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.358601
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