Call for Proposals: Journal Special Issue

🌐  Call for Proposals – CALICO Journal Special Issue (Volume 45)

Dear CALL Researchers,

We are pleased to invite proposals for a Special Issue of the CALICO Journal (Volume 45), scheduled for publication in October 2028.

With this call, we seek one or more guest editors to lead an issue centered on a timely and compelling topic that aligns with the journal’s scope and advances the field of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL).

📋  Proposal Guidelines

If you are interested in serving as a guest editor, please include the following in your proposal:

1. Name(s) and Affiliation(s) of the proposed guest editor(s)

2. Title and Focus of the Proposed Special Issue

3. Brief Rationale (max. 500 words) including:

Relevance of the topic

 Anticipated contribution to the field

4. Short CV for each proposed guest editor, highlighting:

Relevant experience with the topic

  Prior editorial work

5. Draft Call for Papers for the proposed special issue

6. Proposed Production Timeline that meets the following deadlines:

Milestone Deadline 

 Full manuscripts due to guest editors October 1, 2027 

 All revisions completed May 1, 2028

 Final editorial decisions to authors June 1, 2028 

Penultimate version of full issue (incl. editorial intro) August 1, 2028
submitted for copyediting 

Issue published October 15, 2028

📧 Submission Deadline 

 Please send your proposal to: 

 Ana Oskoz and Bryan Smith 

📩 calicoeditor@utorontopress.com 

🗓 Deadline: July 1, 2026 

 The CALICO Journal Editors and Editorial Board will review all proposals. 

📚 About CALICO Journal Special Issues 

 Special issues spotlight original research on emerging topics and evolving subfields within CALL. Recent and forthcoming special issues include: 

  • CJ 44.3 (2027): Empowering Language Teachers as Co-designers Through AI and     
                              Educational Authoring Tools
  • CJ 43.3 (2026):  Artificial Intelligence in CALL 
  • CJ 42.3 (2025):  Technology-mediated Task-based Language Teaching 
  • CJ 42.1 (2025):  Web-based Machine Translation 
  • CJ 41.1 (2024):  Social Media Pathways 
  • CJ 40.1 (2023):  XR: Crossing Reality to Enhance Language Learning 
  • CJ 39.1 (2022):  Emergency Remote Language Teaching  & Learning 
  • CJ 38.3 (2021):  Teacher Education 
  • CJ 37.2 (2020):  Harnessing the Maker Movement in CALL 
  • CJ 37.1 (2020):  Interlanguage Pragmatics and Digital Spaces 
  • CJ 36.1 (2019):  Promoting Social Justice with CALL 
  • CJ 34.1 (2017):  Extracurricular/Extramural CALL Contexts 
  • CJ 33.1 (2016):  Automated Writing Evaluation in Language Teaching 

 We look forward to receiving your proposals and to another exciting contribution to the
CALICO Journal’s mission of supporting innovative and impactful research in CALL. 

 Warm wishes, 

 Ana Oskoz and Bryan Smith 

 Editors, CALICO Journal