Announcements

• Call for papers for the thematic dossier "Languages, Critical Collaboration, and Educational Management through Creative Chains in Confronting Necroeducation""

  2026-10-13

  The thematic issue “Languages, Critical Collaboration, and Educational Management through Creative Chains in Confronting Necroeducation” seeks to bring together studies on the role of languages in constituting educator development and educational management processes committed to social justice, the expansion of collective agency, and Good Living. In dialogue with Krenak (2020), Good Living is understood as a plural ethical-political horizon grounded in the interdependence among people, communities, territories, and nature, and in the collective production of dignified and mutually supportive ways of living.

  Guest editors: Fernanda Liberali (PUC-SP); Luciana Kool Modesto-Sarra (PUC-SP)

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• Call for the Thematic Dossier: Maximina Maria Freire, 50 years of trajectory: languages, training, complexity and transdisciplinarity as transformative praxis

  2025-08-08

  Organizers:
  Tatiane Barros (PUC-SP), Vanessa Ribas Fialho (UFSM), and Cátia Veneziano Pitombeira (UFAL).

  Submissions open until: October 20, 2025
  Expected publication: December, 2025

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• The ESPecialist announces new features for 2025

  2025-03-07

  In order to adapt our journal to the developments of the academic community and the guidelines of the Open Science Movement, aiming at scientific practice in a more collaborative, shared and public way, The ESPecialist journal announces some changes that will be made to our volumes from 2025 onwards.

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• Call for Thematic Dossier - Language teaching and everyday practices: dialogic-decolonial perspectives in pedagogical work with text

  2024-08-27

  Believing that language is dialogic and interactional, this dossier aims to bring together works that reflect and refract language teaching practices, based on work with discourse genres, in an inter/transdisciplinary way.

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• Call for Papers The ESPecialist Title: The affective turn in Applied Linguistics: movements and intertwinings of the power of emotions in the field of language studies.

  2024-06-03

  This volume aims, based on the philosophy of affects (Spinoza, 1656/2009) and destabilizing affective categories and their emotional effects, to expand the discussion of the affective turn in Applied Linguistics.

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• EXTENSION CALL FOR THEMATIC DOSSIER: Language Policies for Multilingualism in the Global South

  2023-10-30

  Check the new dates for submission in the Thematic Dossier on Language Policies for Multilingualism in the Global South.

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• Call for Thematic Dossier: Language Policies for Multilingualism in the Global South

  2023-05-15

  This thematic dossier aims to problematize the language policy construct from decolonial perspectives, challenging Euro-American versions of reality.

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• EDITING AND PUBLICATION IN CONTINUOUS FLOW

  2022-09-19

  Dear Readers, Authors and Contributors,

  As already announced, The Specialist magazine underwent reconfiguration of its editorial board. Since August, we have been working to get the magazine back up and running with the same organization and speed put in place by the previous editors.

  Based on the deliberations of the new editorial board, we communicate:

  As of August 2002, in its volume 43 nº 2, The Specialist magazine starts to be edited in CONTINUOUS FLOW, causing the submitted articles to be published soon after being evaluated, approved, revised and designed, with no longer having to the need for readers and authors to wait for an issue to be released and only then have access to journal articles.

  The publishing model in Continuous Flow is characterized by agility in publishing. The article submission and evaluation system remains the same; the difference will be in the way the articles will be made available to the readers, because, once the article has been approved, it is reviewed by the author, layouted and published.

  In the continuous flow model, there is no need to wait for an issue for the article to be available.

  Yours sincerely,

  The Editors.

  André Effgen de Aguiar

  Leonardo Neves Correa

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