37.2423, Confs: 7th International English for Specific Purposes Conference (Turkey)

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Subject: 37.2423, Confs: 7th International English for Specific Purposes Conference (Turkey)

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Date: 20-Jul-2026
From: Elvan Eda Işık [edaisik at metu.edu.tr]
Subject: 7th International English for Specific Purposes Conference


7th International English for Specific Purposes Conference
Theme: Advancing ESP Research and Practice across a Changing Academic
and Professional Landscape

Date: 06-Nov-2026 - 07-Nov-2026
Location: Ankara, Turkey
Contact: Berkca
Contact Email: esp at metu.edu.tr
Meeting URL: https://esp-fle.metu.edu.tr/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General
Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng, stan1293)

Submission Deadline: 01-Sep-2026

We are pleased to announce that the 7th ESP Conference will take place
at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. The conference
will include paper presentations and invited plenary talks.
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



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