As an additional part of the conference, the Department of English Language Teaching, University of Jaffna, will hold a mentoring workshop on 6th and 7th of August 2027 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. It is expected that some of those participating in the conference will benefit from this more advanced professional development opportunity.

Faculty Experts

• Ajit Mohanty, Jawaharlal Nehru University &Utkal University, India
• Christina Davis, Western Illinois University, USA
• Suhanthie Motha, University of Washington, USA
• Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Procedure:
Each participant will be expected to submit a manuscript they are drafting for publication ahead of the workshop. During the workshop, the participants will first briefly describe their research and the challenges they face in writing the paper. This will be followed by 30-45 minutes of discussion where the experts and other participants offer suggestions for improving the manuscript for a successful journal publication. Feedback will focus on: suitable journals for the manuscript; the guidelines of journals for preparing the manuscript; relevant recent scholarship and literature review that should be included; ways of strengthening the data analysis, findings, and discussion; and areas for improving style and grammar.

As this is a hand-on workshop, the number of participants will be kept small to facilitate detailed discussion and close interactions. Interested participants will send 6000 to 9000 word manuscripts, with an abstract and references.

• Deadline for Submission of Drafts: May 01, 2027
• Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2027
• Call for Registration: May 16, 2027
• Deadline for Registration : June 15, 2027

• Only those who are accepted and registered will be permitted for the mentoring workshop.

Registration fee:

Local  Authors – LKR 5,000

International Authors – USD 50 

All the manuscripts of the mentoring workshop should be sent to icde@univ.jfn.ac.lk . The workshop will be held in the Department of English Language Teaching, University of Jaffna, Thirunelvely, from 9am to 5pm on both days.