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.