36.3398, Confs: Seminar at the 2026 ESSE Conference: Global English/es in a Globalised World – Challenges, Opportunities and the Applicability of New Paradigms for ELT (Spain)

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Date: 06-Nov-2025
From: Emanuela Tenca [emanuela.tenca at unicamillus.org]
Subject: Seminar at the 2026 ESSE Conference: Global English/es in a Globalised World – Challenges, Opportunities and the Applicability of New Paradigms for ELT

Seminar at the 2026 ESSE Conference: Global English/es in a Globalised
World – Challenges, Opportunities and the Applicability of New
Paradigms for ELT
Short Title: ESSE 2026 - Seminar 1

Date: 31-Aug-2026 - 04-Sep-2026
Location: Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Contact: Emanuela Tenca
Contact Email: emanuela.tenca at unicamillus.org
Meeting URL: https://www.esse2026.com/en/index.php

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Phonology; Pragmatics;
Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Submission Deadline: 31-Jan-2026

Convernors:
 - Eva  Skopečková  (University  of West  Bohemia,  Czech Republic)
skopecko at kan.zcu.cz
 - Emanuela Tenca (UniCamillus, Italy) emanuela.tenca at unicamillus.org
“The rise of English as a global language has led scholars to call for
a paradigm shift in the field of English language teaching (ELT) to
match the new sociolinguistic landscape of the twenty-first century.”
(Rose et al., 2021, p. 157). Over the last two decades, this issue has
been addressed in a considerable body of research encompassing the
interrelated fields of English as a Lingua Franca (Jenkins, 2007;
Jenkins et al., 2017; Murata, 2023; Seidlhofer, 2011), English as an
International Language (Alsagoff et al., 2012; Matsuda, 2012; McKay &
Brown, 2016), World Englishes (Kachru et al., 2006; Kirkpatrick, 2007;
2020; Melchers et al., 2019; Nelson et al., 2020), and Global
Englishes (Baker et al., 2024; Galloway, 2017; Galloway & Rose, 2015).
Nevertheless, the issue still promotes further debates and triggers
new research which challenges “ELT’s monolithic and normative
preference for Standard English (SE)” (Kohn, 2022, p. 119) and tests
the applicability of new paradigms aiming to transform English
pedagogy (Saraceni & Bayyurt, 2021). Such transformation may take
place at the level of educational policies, curriculum development,
coursebooks and materials, testing and assessment, to name a few
areas.
The seminar addresses the need to explore new theoretical perspectives
and the latest developments currently evolving around the topic of
Global English/es and its conception in language teaching and
learning. The seminar thus welcomes papers examining innovations in
the field, reviews and empirical studies. We appreciate
classroom-based research, in particular, embracing English as a lingua
franca (ELF), English as an International Language (EIL), World
Englishes (WE), or Global Englishes (GE) perspectives and reflecting
the plurilingual and pluricultural dimensions of the 21st-century
language education. Possible topics might also dwell on
translanguaging, mediation, multilingualism/plurilingualism, and other
paradigms reflecting the multivocality of ELT, also in CLIL and EMI
contexts, in the still-evolving 21st-century classroom.
References:
Alsagoff, L., McKay, S. L., Hu, G., & Renandya, W. A. (Eds.). (2012).
Principles and practices for teaching English as an international
language. Routledge.
Baker,  W.,  Ishikawa,  T.,  Jenkins,  J.  (2024).  Global  Englishes.
Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003291541
Galloway, N. (2017). Global Englishes and change in English language
teaching: Attitudes and Impact. Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315158983
Galloway, N. & Rose, H. (2015). Introducing Global Englishes.
Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315734347
Jenkins, J. (2007). English as a lingua franca: Attitude and identity.
Oxford University Press.
Jenkins, J., Baker, W., & Dewey, M. (Eds.). (2017). The Routledge
Handbook of English as a lingua franca. Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315717173 Kachru, B. B., Kachru, Y., &
Nelson, C. L. (Eds.). (2006). The Handbook of World Englishes.
Wiley-Blackwell. http://doi.org/10.1002/9780470757598
Kirkpatrick, A. (2007). World Englishes: Implications   for
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Kohn, K. (2022). Global Englishes and the pedagogical challenge of
developing one’s own voice. Asian Englishes, 24(2), 119–131.
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Matsuda, A. (Ed.). (2012). Principles and practices of teaching
English as an international language. Multilingual Matters.
McKay, S. L. & Brown, J. D. (2015). Teaching and assessing EIL in
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Melchers, G., Shaw, P. & Sundqvist, P. (2019). World Englishes (3rd
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Murata, K. (Ed.). (2023). ELF and applied linguistics: Reconsidering
applied linguistics        research        from ELF perspectives.
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Nelson, C. L., Proshina, Z. G., & Davis, D. R. (2020). The Handbook of
World Englishes (2nd ed.). Wiley-Blackwell.
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Rose, H., McKinley, J., & Galloway, N. (2021). Global Englishes and
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Saraceni, M. & Bayyurt, Y. (Eds.). (2021). Bloomsbury World Englishes
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