The COVID pandemic has brought new challenges in teaching and research to education. It also has created opportunities to re-examine language education and research.

This special issue invites empirically and pedagogically-based studies of responses in language teaching and research at and post the COVID epidemic. Only papers that are presented at the 38^th International conference on Language Teaching and Learning will be considered for the Special Issue. Manuscripts may focus on but are not limited to:

• Language education and Intercultural Communication

• Globalization and language teaching

• Professional & Business communication in international business context

• Bilingual education, CLIL pedagogy and foreign language/ English education

• Information Communication Technology in teaching and learning

• Mobile device-assisted teaching and learning

• Corpus linguistics and English teaching

• Language policy and curriculum development

• Social-cultural issues and language teaching

• Language acquisition

• Language testing and assessment

• Literature and English teaching

• Translation studies and English teaching

Submissions should:

• be no more than 8,000 words, including references, notes, and appendices.

• include a title page including names of all authors and corresponding author’s contact information

• indicate that the manuscript is original and is not under consideration or published elsewhere

• include a list 5 key words describing the area and focus

• include a 50-word biographical statement for each author

Important dates

1. Submissions (full manuscripts) by: July 1, 2021

2. Acceptances or revisions, if required by: August 31, 2021

3. Revisions by: October 15, 2021

4. Accepted revisions or further revision by: November 15, 2021

5. Accepted manuscripts: November 30, 2021

6. Scheduled publication of the issue: December 31, 2021

When submitting full paper, please also include the following in a separate page:

The title of the paper

1. 1. A list of (about 5) key words describing the area and focus

   2. The name(s) of the author(s) and affiliation(s)

   3. The corresponding author’s e-mail address and contact details

   4. A short biographical statement (50 words or less) for each author

Please send inquiries and full paper to the guest editor:

Dr. Bertha Du-Babcock at enbertha@gmail.com