From teslcanadajournal at tesl.ca Mon Jun 1 00:30:04 2026 From: teslcanadajournal at tesl.ca (teslcanadajournal tesl.ca) Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:30:04 -0000 Subject: [ACLA-CAAL] TESL Canada Journal Special Issue 2028: Call for Proposals Message-ID: TESL Canada Journal Call for Proposals: 2028 Special Topic Issue Dear Colleague, The TESL Canada Journal (http://www.teslcanadajournal.ca) is soliciting proposals from prospective guest editors for the 2028 Special Issue. The TESL Canada Journal is an open access, refereed journal for practicing teachers, teacher educators, graduate students, and researchers. As the federally funded flagship journal of the TESL Canada Foundation since 1984, its mandate is to publish articles that contribute to the advancement of the teaching and learning of English and French as second languages in Canada; second language teacher education; and the maintenance and development of minority, heritage, or Aboriginal languages. All published articles receive DOIs and are archived by the PKP Preservation Network. The TESL Canada Journal (TCJ) publishes one (or two) Special Issues (in the late autumn) and two regular issues per year. Special Issue topics are selected by the Journal Advisory Committee. Guest editors are responsible for the review process and the selection of content. Special Issues are published online only, on the TESL Canada Journal?s open access website. Previous Special Issue topics include the following: 2027: Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory: Transforming L2 Teaching, Learning, Assessment, and Research 2026: Task-Based Language Teaching: Innovations and Challenges in Second Language Education 2025: Teaching Grammar in the 21st Century: Revisiting the Old and Envisioning the New 2024: Preparing Teachers to Support Multilingual Learners and Counter Raciolinguistic Ideologies in Teacher Education 2023: Second Language Writing in Canada: Research, Theory, and Instruction 2022: Plurilingualism and Translanguaging: Pedagogical Approaches for Empowerment and Validation 2020: Corrective Feedback in Language Teaching and Learning: Connecting Research and Practice 2019 (1): Language and Higher Education 2019 (2): Building Capacity for 21st Century Digital ELT Practices 2018: The Shifting Landscape of Professional Self-Development for ELT Practitioners in Canada 2017: Formulaic Language in English Language Acquisition and Teaching 2016: Refugees in Canada: ESL for Resilience and Empowerment 2015: Language Assessment in Canada: Critical Issues and Research Agenda 2014: Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning 2013: Teaching and Learning Pragmatics in TESL 2012: Generation 1.5 in Canada: Multiple Perspectives on a Shifting Demographic Landscape 2011: Ethics in Cross-Cultural, Cross-Linguistic Research Please include the following details in your proposal: A. Proposed title B. Guest Editor(s), Affiliation, Contact information C. Rationale for a Special Issue on this topic (including its current relevance to TESL in Canada) (maximum 4 pages; please place references at the end of the proposal) D. Overview of proposed contents: a brief description of the theme, with topics to be included E. List of possible contributors and proposed means of soliciting submissions (including conferences) F. Qualifications of the Guest Editor(s) (including previous related experience and familiarity with the TESL Canada Journal; reviewer experience with other journals; publishing experience outside of authorship) G. Proposed timeline for Fall 2028 publication H. References Please submit your proposals to: teslcanadajournal at tesl.ca by August 15, 2026. In the subject line, please insert ?TESL Canada Journal 2028 Special Issue Proposal?. Please direct questions regarding proposals to Farahnaz Faez at ffaez at uwo.ca or Antonella Valeo antvaleo at yorku.ca Sincerely, Farahnaz Faez and Antonella Valeo Editors, TESL Canada Journal TESL Canada Journal EDITORS Dr. Farahnaz Faez Western University Dr. Antonella Valeo York University BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Dr. Michael Karas Brock University EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Stephanie Kinzie York University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We would be truly grateful if you could kindly share this information within your network. *CALL FOR PAPERS* First International Online Forum on Language, Mathematics, and Artificial Intelligence (LAMA-AI) *November 21-22, 2026* *Abstract submission deadline: August 15, 2026* *Web:* https://gaussaiglobal.com/lama-ai-forum Following the international online workshop series *Linguistics Meets ChatGPT: From Prompt to Theory, *organized by MANOVA AI / Gauss: AI Global, we are delighted to announce the *First International Online Forum on Language, Mathematics, and Artificial Intelligence (LAMA-AI)*. Aim of the Forum The aim of this conference is fourfold: 1. To shed light on LLMs? internal organization ? tokenization, embeddings, vectors, transformer architecture, and high-dimensional vector spaces ? and their implications for our respective fields of inquiry. 2. To bring together linguists, mathematicians, cognitive scientists, and other researchers interested in AI in a stimulating atmosphere for the exchange of ideas on applying LLMs to scientific work. 3. To identify limitations of LLMs and propose qualified, field-specific solutions that can be implemented computationally to advance current AI models. 4. To foster a genuine, unfragmented dialogue by running LAMA-AI as a single, sequential session with no parallel tracks. Topics We welcome presentations on the following and related topics: 1. LLMs? internal organization versus classical assumptions in linguistics and mathematics 2. Data collection and resource creation: Do scientists need to curate data, including creation of corpora, if LLMs are fed massive datasets? Can an LLM serve as a reliable repository for scientific data? 3. Methodological advantages and challenges in using LLMs for scientific research 4. Output-based evaluation: How reliable are benchmarks? 5. Language processing in humans and machines 6. Tokenized data as a source for scientific investigation 7. Alternative unit groupings in linguistics, mathematics, and LLM tokenization: bracketing paradoxes (e.g. un+happier vs. unhappy+er), and place-value regrouping (e.g. 1800 as ?1 thousand + 8 hundreds? vs. ?18 hundreds?); and LLM tokenization examples discussed in the CFP 8. Big LLMs versus baby LLMs: Do we need large amounts of data? 9. Improvement scenarios for LLM efficiency 10. AI and the definition/meaning of basic units within specific scientific fields 11. AI-driven solutions to field-specific scientific tasks 12. AGI and the cross-modal processing of language, image, and audio (given that text corresponds to written language, images to meaning, and audio to spoken language, to some extent) The *Call for Papers *is available on our website . In case of any questions, please feel free to contact us at contact at manova-ai.com. [image: LAMA-AI.jpg] Thank you. With kindest regards, On behalf of the Organizing Committee, *Yolanda Xavier* FCT PhD Grant holder | Researcher Faculdade de Ci?ncias Sociais e Humanas ? NOVA FCSH Av. de Berna, 26 C, 1069-061 Lisboa | Portugal E-mail: yolandaxavier at fcsh.unl.pt Web: www.fcsh.unl.pt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: LAMA-AI.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 106458 bytes Desc: not available URL: