37.43, Calls: CALR Linguistics Journal - "Special Issue: Applied Linguistics and Theoretical Milestones: Key Theorists and Applied Perspectives on Text, Teaching, and Culture" (Jrnl)

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Date: 31-Dec-2025
From: Professor Hayat Al-Khatib [hkhatib at aou.edu.lb]
Subject: CALR Linguistics Journal - "Special Issue: Applied Linguistics and Theoretical Milestones: Key Theorists and Applied Perspectives on Text, Teaching, and Culture" (Jrnl)

Journal: CALR Linguistics Journal
Issue: Applied Linguistics and Theoretical Milestones: Key Theorists
and Applied Perspectives on Text, Teaching, and Culture

This volume revisits foundational theories in Applied Linguistics with
the aim of reassessing their continued relevance, scope, and
applicability in contemporary language-related practices. Conceived as
an integrative and emergent discipline, Applied Linguistics has
historically drawn on major linguistic theories to address practical
concerns in language teaching and learning, translation, literary
analysis, and cultural studies. Revisiting these theoretical
foundations allows for a clearer understanding of how established
paradigms have been adapted, extended, and sometimes contested within
applied contexts.
By foregrounding key theorists associated with major theoretical
milestones, this issue positions Applied Linguistics as a reflective
field that continually re-engages with its theoretical inheritance.
Rather than abandoning earlier frameworks, the field has repeatedly
returned to them reinterpreting structural, generative, functional,
constructivist, and SLA-oriented insights in response to changing
pedagogical, textual, and cultural demands. Such revisitation
underscores the discipline’s role as a mediator between enduring
theory and evolving practice.
Contributors are invited to critically revisit how Structuralist,
Transformational, Functional, Constructivist, and Second Language
Acquisition (SLA) frameworks, as articulated by influential theorists,
have informed applied research and professional practice across time.
Particular attention is encouraged on how these theories have shaped:
 - Approaches to textual and literary analysis,
 - Understandings of culture, ideology, and meaning-making,
 - Pedagogical models and classroom practices in language education,
and
 - Translation as an applied linguistic activity and form of cultural
mediation.
Through this renewed engagement with established theories, the volume
seeks to demonstrate that Applied Linguistics advances not by
discarding its theoretical past, but by revisiting, refining, and
re-contextualizing existing paradigms to address contemporary
linguistic, educational, and cultural challenges.
The Centre for Applied Linguistics Research (CALR) at the Arab Open
University, invites scholars, translators, linguists, and literary
experts to invites researchers to explore and critically revisit
foundational theories in Applied Linguistics in order to reassess
their relevance and applicability to contemporary language-related
practices.
Researchers are particularly encouraged to explore how Structuralist,
Transformational, Functional, Constructivist, and Second Language
Acquisition (SLA) frameworks, as articulated by influential theorists,
have been re-read and re-applied across time. Contributions may
examine how these theories have shaped:
 - Approaches to textual and literary analysis,
 - Interpretations of culture, ideology, and meaning-making,
 - Pedagogical models and classroom practices in language education
and TEFL, and
Translation as an applied linguistic practice and form of cultural
mediation
Through such explorations, this special issue aims to foster renewed
theoretical dialogue and demonstrate how revisiting existing theories
strengthens Applied Linguistics as a coherent, practice-oriented
discipline capable of integrating teaching, translation, textual
analysis, and cultural inquiry. Contributors can present or reflect on
their experience in relation to any of the below subthemes:
1. Practitioner identity across TEFL, Translation Studies, Literature,
Cultural Studies, and Psycholinguistics
 - Practitioner identity across TEFL, Translation Studies, Literature,
and Cultural Studies
 - Psycholinguistics as a bridge between theory and practice,
emphasizing how cognitive, neurological, and psychological approaches
to language inform both TEFL pedagogy and translation competence.
 - The integrative character of Applied Linguistics linking language
acquisition, comprehension, and production to textual and cultural
analysis.
2. Theoretical Milestones and Key Theorists: Applied Implications
Structuralism
(Key theorists: Ferdinand de Saussure, Leonard Bloomfield, Roman
Jakobson)
 - Language as a system of signs and its impact on textual structure
 - Structural approaches to literary form, grammar teaching, and
translation equivalence
Transformationalism
(Key theorists: Noam Chomsky, Morris Halle)
 - Deep and surface structures in text interpretation
 - Generative syntax in TEFL pedagogy and translation analysis
Functionalism
(Key theorists: M.A.K. Halliday, Dell Hymes, Michael Long)
 - Language function, context, and meaning in discourse and culture
 - Functional grammar in language teaching, genre analysis, and
translation
Constructivism
(Key theorists: Lev Vygotsky, Jean Piaget, Jerome Bruner)
 - Meaning-making, learner agency, and social interaction
 - Constructivist approaches to pedagogy, interpretation, and cultural
learning
SLA Theorizing
(Key theorists: Stephen Krashen, Merrill Swain, Rod Ellis, Larry
Selinker)
 - Acquisition processes and pedagogical implications for TEFL
 - SLA perspectives on bilingualism, translation competence, and
textual comprehension
 - Psycholinguistics in SLA research, particularly in areas of input
processing, interlanguage, working memory, and language acquisition
mechanisms, which are critical for TEFL and translation pedagogy.
3. Methodology and Practice
 - Qualitative and interpretive research methods
 - Curriculum design integrating theory, text, and culture
Notes for Authors:
The structure of the manuscript should be organized as follows: title,
author(s), affiliation(s) (institutions), city, country, e-mails of
authors (preferably institutional emails), Abstract, Keywords,
Introduction, Research Aim, Literature Review, Research Methods,
Results, Discussion, Conclusions and Suggestions for Practical Use,
Acknowledgments (can be added if necessary), References.
The title should be brief and informative, specific and amenable to
indexing. The title should contain less than 15 words, each starting
with a capital letter, small caps, and be centered, typeset the title
in bold, Times New Roman (TNR) 16 pt, single line spacing.
Names and affiliations (institutions) of the authors, city, country,
E-mail address(es) of the author(s) should be listed. This information
should be centered, typeset in TNR 10 pt, and single-spaced, names
being in bold.
The abstract should be limited to 1 paragraph (300-400 words) and
convey the main points of the paper, outline the results and
conclusions, and explain the significance of the results. Any
inessential abbreviations (those personally invented, in particular),
any formulas, references to bibliography, figures and/or tables are
inadmissible in the abstract. Typeset your Abstract in TNR 11 pt,
alignment: justify; line spacing: single. Full paper length not less
than 5000 and not more than 7000 words.
Manuscripts must present original and unpublished research.
Submissions should be made to CALR at aou.edu.lb . Papers may be
theoretical, empirical, or critical in orientation.
Important Deadlines:
Abstract submission should be received by Thursday April 2, 2026.
Full paper submission should be received by Thursday June 25, 2026.
Submissions will be double blind reviewed.
Selected submissions will be included in CALR Linguistic Journal,
vol.17, due on December 2026.
CALR Linguistics Journal is an ISSN referenced and indexed journal in
Scopus & the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH Plus).
ISSN number 2073-1175.
Editor-in-Chief
Hayat Al-Khatib (PhD University of London)
Professor of Applied Linguistics
Orcid ID: 0000-0003-4962-5370
Scopus ID: 57003212200
Associate Dean – Faculty of Language Studies
CALR Linguistics Journal Editor-in-Chief
https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21101202110

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): European Unclassified

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