The popularity of English has inspired innovations in efforts to improve proficiencies in the language and understanding to the culture of the native speakers. Proficiencies in the language involve the teaching and learning materials and pedagogy, while culture involves the aspect of how language is used and in what situations. In fact, there is an on-going debate of the role of the culture in the learning of the language. The debate mainly scattered around whether or not the teaching of English in a non-English-speaking country should be based on the native speakers or local culture.

Ganesha University of Education (UNDIKSHA) is the leading institution that specifically trains and educates teachers and prospective teachers for all subjects and levels of schools in Bali. The university accommodates over 700 of whom are majoring in English Education in the last five years. The discourse to host an international conference has been conducted since 2011 and this year, 2018 becomes the fourth event.

It is expected that this conference becomes an innovative and exciting opportunity for individuals, researchers, lecturers, teachers, students and those who are interested in English language and pedagogy as well as culture to address the importance of the issues and its strong correlation with political and democratic development, educational system reforms and improvement of quality of human resources accross the globe. This conference will also provide unlimited resources and opportunities to interact with prominent scholars in the field and greatly expand on our existing global network.