The 7th International ESP Conference welcomes ESP professionals and scholars from across the world to meet in Ankara on November 6-7, 2026, 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 Advancing ESP Research and Practice across a Changing Academic and Professional Landscape, and 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
