Abstract Submission

You are invited to submit your abstract to the UiTM Academy of Language Studies (APB) Northern Region International Conference (ALNIC) 2026, which will be held in Penang, Malaysia, from 17th to 18th September 2026, at Mercure Penang Beach, Malaysia.

Author guidelines

Abstracts:

As part of the submission process, authors must confirm that their abstract meets all requirements listed below. Submissions that do not comply with these requirements may be returned to the authors.

• The topic must fall within the scope of the ALNIC Conference 2026. Details on the conference scope are available on the ALNIC 2026 website under “About ALNIC 2026”. Any study that does not align with the conference scope will not be considered for review or acceptance.

• The submission has not been published previously and is not currently under consideration by another journal, unless a clarification has been provided in the Comments to the Editor section.

• All submissions are written in academic English.

• The submission file is prepared in Microsoft Word.

• The submission must be formatted according to the conference template and must not exceed 250 words. 

• The manuscript template can be downloaded by clicking the Template of Article link.

• The abstract should clearly introduce the research topic and explain its relevance to the social sciences. It must explicitly state the aim of the study or purpose so readers immediately understand the research focus.

• Authors must briefly describe the data, corpus, or materials analysed. Where relevant, the abstract should indicate the research design, analytical approach, method, or theoretical framework employed in the study.

• The abstract must summarise the main findings, arguments, or insights of the study. It should not merely outline what the paper intends to discuss. Statements that describe results or key arguments are required, not descriptive previews of the paper structure.

• Finally, the abstract should highlight the contribution or significance of the study to the field, whether theoretical, methodological, empirical, or practical. The abstract must comply with the journal’s prescribed word limit. Abstracts that exceed the word limit or omit essential components may result in the manuscript being returned to the author.