Applying ESP Research to Practice In this symposium, we explore how research can be effectively translated into ESP teaching practice across diverse academic and professional contexts. Featuring invited speakers from different areas of ESP, including EAP, Medical English, Business English, and professional/workplace communication, the sessions will highlight evidence-based approaches to course design, materials development, assessment, […]
Listen to award-winning ELT business strategist and mentor Rachael Roberts, who has helped language professionals around the world develop their own businesses through her programme ‘Designed to Flourish’ and other work (https://earnlearnthriveinelt.com/). Rachael gave the closing plenary ‘Teaching at a turning point’ at the 2026 IATEFL conference in Brighton, which you can watch online at https://www.iateflconference.org/about-the-conference/plenary-recordings . In this […]
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 […]
