Focus Areas & Topics of Interest

 

• Linguistic Diversity and Linguistic Insecurity
• Language Planning and Language Management
• Critical discourse-ethnographic approaches to language policy
• Discourse in Linguistic Policy
• Language competencies for employability, mobility, and visibility
• Multilingualism, Plurilingualism, and Multiculturalism 
• Multilingualism and Socioeconomic Outcomes
• Pragmatics and interaction within Teaching Languages and Cultures
• Material Evaluation and Design for Language Teaching
• Linguistic theories applied to LSP Teaching
• Digital Educational Media in LSP Teaching
• Benchmarking, intercultural communication, and LSP Teaching
• Corpus Linguistics and LSP
• Linguistic and Intertextual Analysis in Discourse Analysis  
• Language assessment for LSP and principles of classroom practices  
• Genre in Linguistic Research: Languages for Specific Purposes
• Gender and Race in LSP Research
• Intercultural Teaching in the LSP Classroom
• LSP Curriculum Development and Evaluation
• Evaluating FLT/LSP textbooks and materials
• Needs Analysis in LSP Contexts
• Contexts for ESP Writing
• EFL Learning in Specialized Contexts
• LSP Teacher Education: challenges and solutions
• LSP teacher education needs
• New Trends in LSP Teaching
• LSP and Technology-enhanced Language Learning

 

Multilingualism in Migration and Digital Spaces

• Digital Translanguaging practices among migrant youth on social media
• Multilingual identity construction in online diaspora communities
• Mobile-Assisted language learning for displaced populations
• Cross-platform language choices of migrants
• Linguistic inclusion/exclusion in digital public services for refugees

Artificial Intelligence in LSP Course Design

• Adaptive LSP learning systems using AI-based learner analytics
• ChatGPT as a language tutor in medical/legal/engineering LSP contexts
• Automated feedback systems for writing in LSP courses
• AI-driven needs analysis for curriculum personalization
• Ethics and bias in AI-generated LSP content

Policy and Institutional Frameworks

• National policies on ESP in Multilingual Higher Education
• Institutional responses to language equity in LSP program design
• Language policy and digital LSP access in Global South contexts
• Governance of AI-assisted language instruction in higher education
• Accreditation challenges for AI-integrated LSP programs

Neuroscience of Multilingualism

• Cognitive load in multilinguals during domain-specific language tasks
• Brain imaging studies on L1 interference in LSP learning
• Neural correlates of multilingualism in professional settings
• The role of working memory in multilingual LSP acquisition

AI-Driven Language Technologies

• Multilingual LLMs for specialized vocabulary generation
• Fine-tuning AI models for low-resource ESP languages
• Speech recognition accuracy for multilingual professionals
• Cross-lingual transfer in AI tools for ESP translation tasks
• Evaluating cultural bias in multilingual AI chatbots for ESP support

 

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