The 6th ESP Conference Program is Now Online!!

We are pleased to announce that the 6th ESP Conference will take place at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. The conference will include paper presentations and invited plenary talks.

The 6th International ESP Conference welcomes ESP professionals and scholars from across the world to meet in Ankara on November 1-2, 2024, for a premier conference experience. Scholars and educators will engage in professional development and explore a wide range of topics relevant to teaching and learning English in specific discourse communities: academic, professional, or otherwise specialized.

This year's theme is Digital Communication and ESP: Exploring New Domains, Perspectives, and Practices, but we will be accepting papers on a wide range of topics, such as the following from the perspective of English for Specific Purposes:

  • The effectiveness of various approaches to language learning and teaching
  • Curriculum development and evaluation
  • Emerging digital technologies in language learning and teaching
  • Teaching and testing techniques
  • Assessment challenges
  • Teacher education and development
  • Materials preparation
  • Second language acquisition in specialized contexts
  • Needs assessment
  • Discourse analysis
  • Descriptions of specialized varieties of English
  • Educational policies and language learning and teaching
  • Migration and language learning and teaching
  • Future dimensions in English language learning and teaching
  • Reading and academic writing