AISELT 2025: Call for Papers
The Ninth Annual International Seminar on English Language Teaching (AISELT) 2025

We are pleased to invite researchers, academics, professionals, and students to submit papers for presentation at the Ninth Annual International Seminar on English Language Teaching (AISELT) 2025. This year’s theme, Edutechnolinguistics: Rethinking English Language Teacher Education in a Digital World, seeks to foster critical dialogue around the integration of educational technology in English language teacher education across diverse contexts and educational levels worldwide.

In recent years, the role of digital technology in English language education has grown significantly. However, teacher education has not always kept pace with this rapid development. While many pre-service teachers are increasingly familiar with digital tools and platforms, their classroom use often remains superficial or disconnected from deeper pedagogical goals.

This seminar introduces Edutechnolinguistics—a timely and emerging concept that integrates educational technology, applied linguistics, and critical pedagogy into a coherent and reflective framework. Rather than simply training future teachers to use digital tools, Edutechnolinguistics encourages them to think critically about how and why they use technology—to support language development, foster multilingualism, promote accessibility, and meaningfully engage learners in a digitally mediated world.

We aim to open a conversation on how teacher education programs can more effectively prepare future educators to navigate the linguistic, ethical, and pedagogical complexities of teaching in digital environments. We welcome both research-based and practice-oriented contributions related to, but not limited to, the following topics:
– Technology-mediated project-based learning in teacher training
– Critical and creative uses of social media, mobile apps, and AI tools
– Designing inclusive, multilingual, and accessible learning materials
– Supporting digital literacy development in language classrooms
– Reimagining assessment through digital formats and multimodal content
– Documenting heritage languages and dialects using simple digital tools
– Lessons learned from integrating CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning) or TPACK in real-world classroom settings

This seminar will explore how thoughtful, human-centered uses of technology can not only enhance language teaching, but also foster deeper, more meaningful connections between teachers, students, and the communities they serve.

The fifth AISELT was different from the four previous events, the fifth AISELT was hold online due to COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, the general theme of the seminar was also related to this happening issue:  Adapting and Transforming ELT During and Post Covid-19 Pandemic Era. The Keynote Speaker was Prof. Didi Sukyadi, MA. from Indonesia University  of Education, Indonesia. The First Plenary speaker is Dr. Aisling O’ Boyle from Queen’s University Belfast, UK. The second Plenary Speaker is Dr. Gumawang Djati, M.A., senior lecturer at Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia. The third Plenary Speaker is R. Alpha Amirrachman, M.Phil.Ed., Ph.D., Director of SEAMOLEC, Indonesia.

The fourth AISELT was held on 21 September 2019 at Horison Ultima Ratu Hotel, Serang-Banten, Indonesia. The Keynote Speaker was Prof. Dr. Joko Nurkamto, M.Pd. from Sebelas Maret University. The Plenary Speakers were Dr. Allan F Lauder, senior lecturer at Lingusitics Department of University of Indonesia, Bambang Sumintono, Ph.D., senior lecturer at Institute of Educational Leadership, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and R. Alpha Amirrachman, M.Phil.Ed., Ph.D., Director of SEAMOLEC, Indonesia.

The theme of AISELT 2019 was ELT in Response to Industrial Revolution 4.0: Innovation, Challenges and Opportunities. More than 200 participants from various background of ELT and different regions of Indonesia joined this seminar. In the parallel session they presented wide and various topics in the scope of English Language Teaching and Learning.