Call for Abstracts for the 2024 *International Journal of English for Academic Purposes *Special Issue

*Corpora and English for Academic Purposes *

Guest Editor: Eniko Csomay

The goal of the special issue is to offer an overview of the latest developments and innovations in the study of language in the academia with special emphasis on using corpora. The special issue welcomes studies from

· all academic levels (primary/elementary, secondary, and tertiary including undergraduate and graduate)

· all spoken and written registers as they relate to the academic context (e.g., TED talk language in training teaching associates, classroom discourse, student writing, academic prose, etc.)

· all educational contexts where English is the medium of instruction (EMI), and

· all research paradigms including corpus-driven, corpus-based, corpus-informed qualitative/quantitative methods including analyses of written texts, transcribed oral texts, and/or multimodal corpora.

The journal makes all articles open access (free of charge) and all submissions go through a double blind review by experts in the field. Articles for this special issue are solicited by submission as well as by invitation.

Suggested topics include but are not limited to

· university classroom discourse

· language use within and across disciplines

· student writing at the university (whether in the classroom or under testing conditions)

· the language of content-based instruction in

Ø dual language schools and/or immersion programs (e.g., high school)

Ø tertiary education (university, vocational school)

· the language of EMI contexts

· multimodal corpora

· language training for teaching associates

· the use of corpora with young learners

· international perspectives on academic language use

Abstracts should describe empirical studies and include implications. Full-length articles will be 7,000 words including references and appendices.

Please send a max. 600-word abstract without author(s) names. On a separate sheet, include each author’s name, title of the article, affiliation, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, and a 50-word biographical statement.

The deadline for abstracts is October 25, 2022. Please send abstracts and inquiries to the guest editor, Eniko Csomay at ecsomay@sdsu.edu.

*Timeline:*

September 25, 2022 Call for Papers

October 25, 2022 Submission of abstracts

November 5, 2022 Invitation to submit to special issue (based on abstracts and invitations)

May 1, 2023 Manuscript submission

June 10, 2023 Completion of first round of review

August 1, 2023 Revised manuscript submission (based on first round of reviews)

September 10, 2023 Completion of second round of reviews

November 1, 2023 Final submission

November 15, 2023 Manuscripts to be sent to the publisher to work with authors on proofs

March 2024 Publication