Number 34, publication January 2025

Call for contributions

Language contrast: an instrument for grammar reflection

Number 34, publication January 2025


Guest editors:
Carme Durán Rivas, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
Alícia Martí-Climent, University of Valencia (UV)

INTRODUCTION
The journal Research in Education and Learning Innovation Archives (REALIA) invites teachers and research staff in Language Didactics (L1, L2, FL) to present unpublished articles for the monograph: Language contrast: an instrument for grammar reflection, volume 34 (January 2025).
The multilingual and multicultural society in which we live compels us to address linguistic diversity inside and outside the classroom. The multilingual context of schools and students’ plurilingual nature means that most European school systems advocate bilingual or multilingual education. The integrated linguistic approach is a basic principle in teaching to build a multilingual society.
Current competency-based curricula set out learning situations that allow students to learn through meaningful educational experiences based on their reality, in which they bring together diverse techniques and skills to solve problems and challenges, and in which teamwork, autonomy and reflection form part of the teaching and learning process.
The current challenge in education is to achieve own and foreign language teaching that promotes reflection on use and language transfer to develop students' multilingual competencies, for which grammatical knowledge that students can use consciously and independently and methodological procedures that allow teachers to address this knowledge in the classroom are needed. In other words, it is essential to know languages and know how to think about them. This is the challenge we intend to address in this monograph.

OBJECTIVE
This monograph aims to gather recent research that investigates the teaching and learning of languages through reflection on grammar brought about by contrasting the different languages studied. It aims to engage academics, professionals and researchers from all levels of education to share and exchange their research findings and thus explore the potential of contrasting languages in teaching to bring about reflection on the use and functioning of language systems.
We are especially interested in new research on grammar teaching from reflecting on and contrasting languages, with innovative methods that can be replicated or applied by other researchers and teachers for the transfer of knowledge.

RECOMMENDED TOPICS
In view of this, articles related to the following topics will be submitted for consideration:

• The integrated treatment of languages
• Teaching grammar from an interlinguistic perspective
• Interlinguistic reflection in L1, L2 and FL teaching
• Language transfer
• Reflection on languages in the curriculum
• Use of and reflection on languages in the classroom
• Metalinguistic reflection from various languages
• Plurilingual teaching practices
• Teachers' beliefs on teaching grammar
• Teacher training in multilingual contexts
• Digital tools for interlinguistic reflection

Submission procedure
Articles may be written in English, Spanish or Catalan. They must be sent via the website https://www.uv.es/realia (It is necessary to register on the REALIA editing platform to be able to send a manuscript).
All submissions will follow a peer review process with blind and external peer review. It is recommended that authors follow the guidelines for authors that can be found on the website of the journal.

Important dates
- Date of the presentation of the monograph: 01/02/2023.
- Deadline for sending contributions: 01/05/2024
- Publication of the monographic issue: January 2025