#CFP JSLW 2025/26 Special Issue call for proposals "Emotions in Teaching Second Language Writing"

[Andy Jiahao Liu]

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to share with you the call for proposals for the 2025/26 Special Issue of the Journal of Second Language Writing. Our special issue is themed Emotions in Teaching Second Language Writing. Please consider submitting a proposal or sharing it with anyone you know who might be interested in submitting it! We invite writing researchers, practitioners, and graduate students, from various educational settings and informed by different methodological inquiries, to contribute to a collection of studies that focuses on writing instructors' lived experiences in teaching L2 writing from an emotionality perspective. In particular, we emphasize and celebrate the humanist aspects of becoming and being writing teachers via understanding, analyzing, and exploring the emotional process, experiences, and journey related to teaching L2 writing.

We are now seeking proposals addressing the following five lines of inquiry in particular, though other topics related to emotionality and teaching L2 writing are welcomed and appreciated (broadly defined):

• Methodological innovations in L2 writing teacher emotion research

• Emotionality in teaching L2 writing in underrepresented contexts and groups
• Technology and emotionality in teaching L2 writing
• Emotion-focused approaches to L2 writing teacher education
• Emotions in teacher-student interactions in L2 writing classrooms

Of particular note, we use the term "L2 writing" here and in our Special Issue to refer to the inclusive term "multilingual writing." We do so to honor our flagship journal JSLW, the diamond conference SSLW, and the long-standing representation of second language writing at TESOL International Association (i.e., the Second Language Writing Interest Section). 

500-word proposals for full research articles and 300-word proposals for short communications are due Jan. 15, 2025. The full call for proposals can be read here or through this direct link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/317082/emotions-in-teaching-second-language-writing.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out to our editorial team at jslws...@gmail.com. We look forward to receiving your submissions to this important contribution to our field.

With very best wishes,

Andy

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Andy Jiahao Liu (He/him/his)

Global Professor of English
International Foundations Writing Program

The University of Arizona

Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University Microcampus

Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Email: liu.j...@connect.um.edu.mo/ aj...@arizona.edu

Abeunt studia in mores!