ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The Department of English Language Teaching (DELT), Faculty of Arts, University of Jaffna, proudly presents its second International Conference on Decolonizing English, scheduled to take place from August 12th to 14th, 2026. This ground-breaking event is designed to foster critical conversations about the role of English in postcolonial societies and to reimagine English Language Teaching (ELT) in ways that embrace local identities, knowledge systems, and cultural contexts.

About the Mentoring on Academic Publishing and Research

As an additional part of the conference, the Department of English Language Teaching, University of Jaffna, will hold a mentoring workshop on publishing in topics related to English, linguistics, and language teaching for scholars who might benefit from feedback on their works in progress. International experts on research and publishing will conduct sessions where participants’ manuscripts will be discussed and suggestions offered for submission to promising academic journals.

The mentoring workshop will be held form August 15^th and 16^th , 2026.

CMT Acknowledgment

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.

Submit your Abstracts at CMT link here