CALL FOR PAPERS
The VESAL Conference is expected to attract leading academics, education professionals, and policymakers from around the world who work across the broad domains of education.
Tishk International University intends to co-organize this year’s conference with Salahaddin University–Erbil. The conference offers a distinctive forum for engagement with peers from Iraq, the Middle East, and the international community, facilitating the exchange of up-to-date scholarship in educational studies, applied linguistics, and literature. The program will feature paper presentations, panel discussions, and workshops, alongside interactions with industry exhibitors and structured opportunities for professional networking.
The organizing committee is pleased to announce that literature-related submissions are welcome. Accepted papers will be published in the VESAL Proceedings with an ISBN, and each article will be assigned a DOI.
The conference welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics:
- Language acquisition and learning, Language education
- Intercultural Education, Applied linguistics
- Language teacher education
- TESOL / TESL / TEFL
- Language curriculum development
- Language teaching methodology
- Language testing and assessment
- Language program evaluation
- English for specific purposes
- Independent / Autonomous Learning
- Innovation in language teaching and learning
- Motivation and Language Teaching
- Language Teaching Research
- Foreign Language Teaching
- Vocational Education
- Other New Trends in Education Related Topics.
- Material Development in Language Teaching and education.
- Project-Based Education
- Leadership in Education
- The importance of body language in Education
- Basic ethical values in education (Environment, cleaning, and etc…)
- Arts Education
- College and Higher Education
- Curriculum and Instruction
- Democracy Education
- Developmental Psychology
- Distance Education
- Educational Planning
- Educational Technology
- Environmental Education
- Foundations of Education
- Geography Education
- Guidance and Counseling
- Health Education
- History Education
- Human Resources in Education
- Human Rights Education
- Innovation and Changing in Education
- Instructional Design
- Learner Needs in 21st Century
- Learning Psychology
- Lifelong Learning
- Mathematics Education
- Measurement and Evaluation in Education
- Mobile Learning, Multi-cultural Education
- Music Education, New Learning Environments
- Nursery Education, Pre-school Education
- Primary School Education
- Professional Development
- Science Education
- Secondary School Education
- Social Sciences Teaching
- Special Education
- Sports and Physical Education
- Teacher Training
- Technology-Based Learning
- The Role of Education in the Globalized World
- Other subjects related to education
- Contemporary Approaches to Literature
- Cultural studies
- Literary Criticism
- Literary Pragmatics
- Literary Semantics
- Literary studies
- Literature and Culture in Language Learning and Teaching
- Literature and English teaching
- Literature and Film
- Literature and Gender
- Literature and Globalization
- Literature and History
- Children Literature
- Poetry and Prose
- American literature and culture
- American short story
- American theatre and drama
- Contemporary literature
- Comparative literature
- Poetry and prose
- Literature and environment
- Literature and Gender studies
- Children’s literature
- Periods of American literature
- Periods of English literature
- American women writers
- Transnational studies related topics
- Other subjects related to literature
- Culturally sustaining pedagogy
- Multilingualism & identity
- Indigenous knowledge
- Literature & cultural expression
- Educational justice
- UDL & disability inclusion
- Fair assessment practices
- AI literacy & ethics
- AI-enhanced teaching
- Teacher AI readiness
- AI feedback & assessment
- Postcolonial perspectives
- Technology & narrative
- Global literary voices
- Literature & empathy
- Intercultural learning