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Author Guidelines

Submission formats

  1. Abstract (200-500 words): an abstract should outline the key contents of the presentation
  2. Full paper (1800-2500 words): the full paper should be unpublished original work with 200-word abstract and full reference list
  3. Panel discussion proposal (max. 750 words):  the proposal should contain the title of the discussion and the name of the convenor. It should include information for the organiser to assess the appropriateness and relevance to the conference and the list of panel members. 
  4. Workshop proposal: the proposal should contain the title of the workshop and the name of the convenor, who acts as the chair and is responsible for organising the papers. A minimum of 3 papers is required for each workshop.

Please select the appropriate template for your submission

Submission deadline: 30 April, 2026

Acceptance notification: Acceptance will be made on a rolling basis till 31 May, 2026

Please read all the information below before your submission

Strands

All submissions should indicate the strands (Education, Second and Foreign Languages, Translation & Interpreting, Culture, Globalisation) up to 3. The organising committee reserves the right to allocate your paper or abstract to the strand as they see fit.

Topics listed below serve as hints to provide inspiration but not restrictions. Any topic of academic, practical, or vocational interests and within the remit of the conference is welcome.

Education

  • Curriculum design and development
  • Applied pedagogy
  • Educational psychology
  • Educational systems or policies that are of global and/or comparative design focusing on functions, efficiencies, or challenges
  • Interdisciplinary approaches to educational research that can be applied to practices related to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI)
  • Mixed methodological design and analysis that might be related to using both simple and more sophisticated approaches to building evidence or datasets
  • New and emerging challenges of using technology in educational contexts for example digital technologies in learning and teaching, generative AI, and online learning
  • Educational practices related to black and minority ethnic (BME) groups and from underserved communities or countries
  • Early childhood education
  • Special needs education
  • Bilingual education
  • Innovative Teaching Methods, such as Gamification in education
  • Assessment and Evaluation (formative and summative assessment strategies, standardized testing and its alternatives, data-driven decision making in education)
  • Lifelong Learning (continuing education for adults, professional development programs, online learning communities)

Second and foreign languages

  • Language teaching and learning
  • Language acquisition and development
  • Bilingualism and multilingualism
  • Critical language pedagogies
  • Heritage language
  • Language endangerment and revitalization
  • Language policy
  • Language and identity
  • Language and culture
  • Intercultural communication
  • Applied linguistics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Computational and corpus linguistics
  • Digital and technology-mediated language learning
  • Language Learning Technologies (mobile learning applications, language learning through social media, AI-driven language learning tools)
  • Language and Social Justice (language education for marginalized communities, language rights and policies, language and social mobility)
  • Language Teacher Education (pre-service and in-service teacher training, professional development for language teachers, teacher collaboration and networking)

Translation and interpreting

  • Translation theory and practice
  • Reflection on professional practice
  • Corpus and applications
  • Technologies and tools for translation and interpreting and subtitling
  • AI and machine translation and interpreting
  • Human–machine collaboration (post-editing practices)
  • Cultural adaptation and equivalence in translation
  • Ideology, power, and politics in translation
  • Gender and translation
  • Translator visibility and ethics

Culture

  • Heritage and preservation
  • Religion: Beliefs and Practices
  • Identity
  • Norms comparison
  • Culture and society
  • EDI
  • Language and culture

Globalisation

  • Globalisation in general from politics and economics perspectives
  • Globalisation and internationalisation of education
  • Human mobility in a globalised world
  • Competition in a global economy and market
  • Research and development globalisation
  • Globalisation and culture
  • Globalisation and communication

Research & Publication Ethics

Authors must obtain the required ethics approval from their affiliated institutions where applicable. Approval to undertake the research must be granted before any work requiring approval begins.

We adhere to the Guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Authors are expected to be aware of, and comply with, best practice in publication ethics in relation to guest authorship, dual submission, plagiarism, and competing interests. 

Review criteria & process

Abstracts, full papers, panel discussions and workshop proposals are reviewed and considered by the working groups formed by conference committee members. The conference has a zero tolerance policy for plagiarism.

Review criteria:

  • Clarity of the focus and presentation
  • Originality
  • Rigour
  • Significance and impact

Publishing of Conference Proceedings

The conference proceeding will be published including abstracts, full papers, panel discussion and workshop proposals. The proceeding will have an ISBN, be allocated a DOI, and be indexed with Google Scholar and Crossref.

Your accepted submissions will only be included in the proceeding if one of the authors registers for the conference before 31 May 2026. Failure to register for the conference will result in the submissions being removed from the programme and proceedings without further notice. If you are unable to attend the conference, please notify the Organising Committee info@glecc.org by 31 May 2026, to withdraw your presentation from the conference programme.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with the conference proceedings agree to the following terms:

  1.  Authors retain copyright and grant the conference organiser AT Publishing right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this conference proceedings.
  2.  Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this conference proceedings.
  3.  Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.