The embryo of the birth of Lingua Franca: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra has been discussed since mid-2021 by the manager of the INSURI Language Center. Together with a consortium of language and literature lecturers, the manager of the language center expresses the idea of publishing a journal that focuses on linguistic and literary studies. The two teams did not forget to communicate intensively with the management of Omah Jurnal Sunan Giri (OJSG) as the manager of the scientific publication platform in the form of an electronic journal within the INSURI Ponorogo environment.

Currently, the INSURI Language Center is an academic institution that aims to develop students' English and Arabic skills through various extracurricular and extracurricular activities. The INSURI Language Center is also used as a venue for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and Test of Arabic as a Foreign Language (TOAFL) by final semester students of Bachelor and Master programs.

The implementation of the TOEFL and TOAFL at the INSURI Language Center did not satisfy the academic community. The INSURI academic community provides input so that the INSURI Language Center becomes an institute that initiates research in the field of language and literature. Because OJSG already has Aphorisme journals whose publications focus on Arabic Learning and Arabic Linguistics, the INSURI Language Center is considered to be able to determine the focus of research studies in the field of language and literature universally.

Through this channel, the manager of the INSURI Language Center together with a consortium of language and literature lecturers began to open Lingua Franca: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra, with the publication of Vol. 1, No. 1 (2022). This means that the first edition will be published in January-June 2022. The name "Lingua Franca" is taken with the meaning of the Indonesian version of "Bahasa Pengantar". The birth of this journal is nothing but the aim of accommodating the latest research results in the field of language and literature. It is hoped that the issues of language and literature published by the journal Lingua Franca can become a reference for student learning.