Language Teaching Research Quarterly
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Suresh Canagarajah (2026)
Call for Papers for a Special Issue (2026)
In Honour of Suresh Canagarajah’s Contributions to Applied Linguistics
Language Teaching Research Quarterly
(Scopus, Q1, SJR- ISSN: 2667-6753)
Suresh Canagarajah is the Evan Pugh University Professor at Pennsylvania State University. This is the highest faculty position in the university, awarded to a selective number of members. He teaches courses in the Departments of English and Applied Linguistics. He was formerly the editor of the TESOL Quarterly and President of the American Association of Applied Linguistics. His Routledge Handbook on Language and Migration (Routledge 2017) won the 2020 best book award from the American Association of Applied Linguistics. His research articles and books have won eleven awards from leading international professional organizations. He has received fellowships from the Universities of Bristol, Stellenbosch, London, Monash, Wisconsin, and Louisville. He is the founding director of the Institute on Trans Linguistic Research and Publishing, which mentors multilingual and minoritized scholars into research publishing. He was the recipient of the Distinguished Scholarship and Service Award by the American Association of Applied Linguistics in 2018, and named one of 50 scholars who has shaped the field of TESOL in 2016. He started his teaching career as an instructor in the English Language Teaching Unit of the University of Jaffna in 1982.
https://english.la.psu.edu/directory/asc16/
https://psu-us.academia.edu/SureshCanagarajah
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wfRV3v0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Through this Special Issue, the editors wish to honour the influential work of Professor Suresh Canagarajah and his contributions to applied linguistics. We encourage scholars around the world to submit articles on the following themes:
§ Local pedagogies in ELT
§ multilingual academic writing
§ new genres and voices in academic writing
§ translingual practices
§ spatial repertoires in language analysis
§ embodiment in language and communication
§ resisting linguistic imperialism
§ critical pedagogy in ELT
§ disability studies and language (decolonial crip linguistics; crip translingualism)
§ translingualism in professional communication
§ cosmopolitanism and global communication
§ interactional sociolinguistics
§ STEM interactions and communication
§ ethnography in multilingual classrooms and society
§ autoethnography
§ African American students and scholars in academic writing
§ local knowledge
§ language planning and policy
Guest Editors:
Zhisheng (Edward) Wen
College of Professional and Continuing Education-Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9041-6920
Hassan Mohebbi
European Knowledge Development Institute, Turkey
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3661-1690
Michelle Mingyue Gu
The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6547-2178
Important Dates:
Extended Full Paper Submission Deadline: September 20, 2026
Publication: December, 2026
Submission Guidelines:
Potential contributors are invited to study the submission guidelines of the journal and then submit the full paper through journal’s online submission system:
https://eurokd.com/content/menu/73
*Publication in this special issue is free of charge for the accepted papers.
