37.1300, Calls: Lingue e Linguaggi - "Special Issue: Redefining English Teaching and Learning in Digital Contexts at Tertiary Level" (Jrnl)

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Date: 31-Mar-2026
From: Roxanne H. Padley [roxanneholly.padley at unipegaso.it]
Subject: Lingue e Linguaggi - "Special Issue: Redefining English Teaching and Learning in Digital Contexts at Tertiary Level" (Jrnl)

Journal: Lingue e Linguaggi
Issue: Redefining English Teaching and Learning in Digital Contexts at
Tertiary Level
Call Deadline: 15-May-2026

Call for papers for a special issue of Lingue e Linguaggi on
“Redefining English teaching and learning in digital contexts at
tertiary level”
Guest-editors: Federico Gaspari (Università Telematica San Raffaele di
Roma, Italy) and Roxanne Holly Padley (Università Telematica Pegaso,
Italy)
Abstract proposals are sought for a special issue in the peer-reviewed
international journal Lingue e Linguaggi focusing on how English
teaching and learning at university are being redefined in digital
contexts. New technologies, generative AI, and digital approaches to
English teaching and learning are constantly evolving, with variable
degrees of success and satisfaction for lecturers and students (e.g.,
Padley, 2020; Luppi, 2022; Iori, 2023). English is increasingly taught
and learnt at university through online platforms, virtual
environments and apps, and this applies both to specialist students
(e.g., of languages, linguistics, translation, interpreting, and
linguistic and cultural mediation) as well as to those in other areas
and disciplines. In addition, the digital dimension is becoming more
and more an integral part in both traditional academic settings (e.g.,
Kostka and Toncelli, 2023; Suárez and El-Henawy, 2023; Hassan, 2025)
and in informal learning (e.g., Pavesi and Bianchi, 2024; De Riso,
2025; Lai and Wang, 2025).
This special issue intends to encourage an open and inclusive debate
on the issues, opportunities and challenges involved in teaching and
learning English online at university, focusing on how traditional
approaches and practices are being modified and updated, and on the
new and emerging methodologies and technologies that exploit the full
potential of digital language education. We invite theoretical,
methodological, pedagogical and applied contributions, case studies
and position papers in English with a strong research component that
examine fully digital, hybrid, blended, synchronous and/or
asynchronous university courses and classes at undergraduate and
postgraduate level, including Masters’ and doctoral programmes, as
well as those delivered in English within English as a second language
contexts.
Topics of particular interest for the special issue include, but are
not limited to, the following:
 - Innovative curriculum and syllabus design
 - Revisiting methodologies such as peer education, cooperative
learning, group work, task-oriented learning, project- and
portfolio-based activities, etc.
 - Technologies, tools, apps, platforms and virtual environments
 - Immersive, augmented and extended reality
 - Gamification approaches
 - (Generative) AI, Large (and Small) Language Models and Chatbots
 - Methods, protocols and applications of ELFentextualization
 - The role of (audiovisual and multimedia) translation from and/or
into English in combination with other source and target languages
 - Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) and other forms
of internationalisation related to teaching via English
 - Accessibility and inclusion strategies for students with
disabilities and special educational and learning needs
 - Developing learners’ autonomy, self-assessment skills and
reflexivity
 - Informal learning outside the (digital) classroom
 - Formative and summative evaluation, assessment, testing and
feedback
 - Monitoring the quality and effectiveness of teaching and learning
Abstract proposals in English (maximum 300 words, excluding
references) should be sent by 15 May 2026 to both guest-editors:
federico.gaspari at uniroma5.it and roxanneholly.padley at unipegaso.it
Notification of acceptance: 1 June 2026
Deadline for submission of full manuscripts: 18 September 2026
Deadline for submission of revised papers: 1 February 2027
Publication: 2027
References:
De Riso, C. (2025) Informal Learning of English at University: A
cross-sectional and longitudinal perspective. Roma: Franco Angeli.
Hassan, A. Q. A. (2025) “The Role of Artificial Intelligence in
Enhancing English Language Teaching (ELT): A Review of Tools, Trends,
and Pedagogical Impacts”. Forum for Linguistic Studies 7(8): 827–844.
Iori, I. (2023) “Online ELT during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study
on Students’ Perspectives”. In Franca Poppi and Josef Schmied (eds) “A
Terrible Beauty Is Born”: Opportunities and New Perspectives for
Online Teaching and Assessment. Special issue of Lingue Culture
Mediazioni 10(1): 231–255.
Kostka, I. and R. Toncelli (2023) “Exploring Applications of ChatGPT
to English Language Teaching: Opportunities, Challenges, and
Recommendations”. The Electronic Journal for English as a Second
Language 27(3): 1–19.
Lai, C. and Q. Wang (2025) “Online informal learning of English and
receptive vocabulary knowledge: Purpose matters”. ReCALL 37(1): 62–78.
Luppi, F. (2022) “Tools and models for distance teaching in an English
Language and Culture university course: the flipped classroom and
cooperative learning in a digital environment”. Altre Modernità 27:
181–195.
Padley, R. H. (2020) “Italian Coronavirus Teaching Emergency: A
comparative analysis of university student motivation and performance
– online vs face-to-face English language learning”. Journal of
Applied Languages and Linguistics 4(1): 58–71.
Pavesi, M. and F. Bianchi (eds) (2024) “‘In the Presence of English’
Informal English Language Learning in Italy”. Special Issue of Lingue
e Linguaggi 66: 1–319.
Suárez, M. and W. M. El-Henawy (eds) (2023) Optimizing Online English
Language Learning and Teaching. Berlin: Springer.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Language Acquisition
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

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