The first volume of IJELS contains selected articles of English Education Majoring. This issue is previously published in IJELS's OJS 2.

This issue presents six articles by authors from Indonesia, Burundi, and Iraq, covering translation studies, contrastive linguistics, literary criticism, technology-assisted language learning, ELT materials evaluation, and discourse analysis. Topics include cultural translation in Adventist hymnody, a contrastive analysis of Indonesian and English grammar, a trauma-theory reading of contemporary American fiction, YouTube-based self-regulated learning, a Bloom's Taxonomy analysis of an English textbook, and a discourse analysis of sponsorship language in online video content.