The ESPSIG (English for Specific Purposes Special Interest Group) and RESIG (Research Special Interest Group) of IATEFL are collaborating to host an online conference on Researching ESP: Approaches and Methods on Saturday 14th November, 2026. The conference aims are to: Share good practice Collate ways of researching ESP pedagogy Create a space for thinking about ESP and […]
Listen to Alla Fridrikh, a specialist in language acquisition in emergency contexts. She talks to Dolon Gupta about what ESP means in war-torn Ukraine: how learning material has to be continuously revised for exhausted and traumatized learners; how mindfulness techniques have to be re-imagined, in language classes, to help bring peace and calm to students […]
Rudi Camerer, an intercultural competence expert, is one of those people whose career has moved seamlessly from language education to assessment to policy to real world international communication. His breadth of experience comes through as he talks about how English functions as a global working language today, why intercultural competence is no longer optional in […]
The ESPSIG is offering a scholarship for the IATEFL Annual Conference in Birmingham in 2027. Our IATEFL ESPSIG Mark Krzanowski Scholarship celebrates Mark Krzanowski (1963-2021), who was the ESPSIG coordinator from 2004 to 2013 and Editor-in-Chief of the SIG journal – Professional and Academic English – from 2013 until 2020. He held academic and managerial roles […]
