CfP deadline for Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration

*Special Issue CfP*: Mobilities, Immobilities and Inequalities:
Interrogating ‘Travelling’ Ideas in English Language Education and English
Medium Instruction in the Asia Pacific and Broader Middle East Regions

Guest Editors: Phan Le Ha (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, and
Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei), Dat Bao (Monash University,
Australia), and Osman Barnawi (Royal Commission Colleges and Institutes at
Yanbu, Saudi Arabia).

*Aims & scope *

This special issue interrogates the mobility and mobilization of major
ideas that have been driving policy, pedagogy and practice of English
language education (ELE) and English medium instruction (EMI) in varied
contexts in the Asia Pacific and broader Middle East regions since the
1980s. These travelling ideas include ‘on-going professional development’,
‘English as an international language’, ‘English as a Lingua Franca’,
‘shared ownership of English’, ‘teacher as facilitator’, ‘learnercentred
education’ and ‘communicative approach’, to name a few. Indeed, these
constructs do not always travel freely or at the same speed. They often
bear very different meanings across different contexts and settings. Most
often, they do not possess any ‘intrinsic power’ to enable desirable
changes and/or to bridge perceived gaps between ‘global’ and ‘local’
standards at all levels of policy, pedagogy and practice regarding ELE and
EMI. They, nevertheless, carry many aspirations for change. Such
aspirations, in many ways, could also bring about and generate
inequalities, immobilities and unequal access to social mobilities and
educational opportunities. In the same vein, not all forms of mobilities
and immobilities are equal, either. All of these observations have
implications for ELE and EMI. We invite submissions that critically examine
the above-mentioned observations and their implications for ELE and EMI in
the Asia Pacific and broader Middle East regions. All of the full papers
will go through a rigorous peer-reviewing process, following the Journal’s
practice and instructions that can be found on the Transitions: Journal of
Transient Migration website.

We invite contributors to submit articles in all categories, including
featured essays, empirical papers, reflective essays and book reviews. It
is expected that your submission will be related to at least one of the
themes below:

   - Discourse on the interplay between ELE/EMI and social mobilities (as
   influenced by both policy and practice) in the specified regions
   - EMI as a travelling idea; dominant discourses associated with EMI;
   pressing issues underlying the mobility of certain EMI discourses
   - Emerging EMI communities and discourses and the underlying issues
   concerning mobilities, immobilities and inequalities
   - EMI and implications for the teaching and learning of other foreign
   languages
   - English communication skills among university graduates and their
   contextual utility
   - How the increasing mobilities of students and academics in these
   regions may reshape ELE and EMI policy, pedagogy and practice
   - Rethinking English ownership and questions of professional identity in
   regards to varied forms of mobility/immobility
   - Issues underlying the development and implementation of EIL/ELF
   pedagogies and curricula in peripheral contexts
   - Theoretical contribution by local scholars and educators in English
   pedagogy and curriculum discourse
   - Issues involving access to social mobilities and educational
   opportunities in the context of EMI simultaneously promoted alongside
   certain travelling ideas
   - Various perspectives on power as generated and/or constrained by the
   global spread of the above-mentioned travelling ideas and concepts

*Important dates:*

15 August 2018: Submission of abstracts of no more than 300 words excluding
references sent to: [email protected] [email protected]@
hotmail.com
31 August 2018: Notification of abstract acceptance will be sent out.
30 November 2018: Full paper submission is due
1 December 2018 – 30 June 2019: Papers sent out for peer-review and authors
revise papers accordingly
20 July 2019: Final papers ready for publication

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