ESP Teaching Today : Current Practices, Challenges and Perspectives

Keynote Speakers 

The following scholars have kindly agreed to participate in the conference and deliver plenary talks

Conference Chair : Dr. Ouafa OuarniKi – University of Djelfa ,Algeria

is an associate professor in didactics of teaching ESP at the University of Djelfa, Algeria. She is also a regular presenter at conferences and her conference papers deal with teaching English for Specific Purposes, designing ESP courses, professional development of language teachers, the use of technologies in an ESP instructional enviroment. She peer-reviews papers for local national and international journals (U.S.A, Indonesia, Berlin …). Her main research areas include ESAP, syllabus design and ESP training. She is an active member in the laboratory of Dialects and Speech Processing and the national Research Project  P.R.F.U: Toward Critical Thinking Based EFL Class : A Must –to- Have Skill for Impacting Social Change  (ENS Oran) participating in all their events, running workshops and presentations, collaborating with other members.

Dr. Agnieszka Dudzik

is an Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Foreign Languages at the Medical University of Bialystok, Poland. Her fields of interest include English for Specific Purposes, Communicative Language Teaching, and the nature of doctor-patient communication. Her research interests lie in the area of English for Medical Purposes (EMP) training, withparticular emphasis on the teaching of medical communication skills. She has published widely on various topics of ESP training, syllabus design, and intercultural communication competence. Agnieszka is also a joint events coordinator of the IATEFL English for Specific Purposes Special Interest Group

Dr. Turqui Barkat

is an associate professor in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Analysis at Mohamed Kheider University of Biskra, Algeria. He occupied different Pedagogical and Administrative Responsibilities. His fields of interest include : Discourse Analysis- Applied Linguistics- ESP, innovative Methods of Language Teaching- Intercultural Approach to Foreign Language Teaching. He published a good number of articles and  took part in different national and international conferences

Dr . Caroline Hyde- Simone

Caroline is based in Switzerland as lecturer in English at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, a position she has held since 2012, with extensive teaching experience in ESP, particularly in the Life Sciences and in Facility Management. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics (with a focus on Second Language Acquisition) and a master’s degree in Applied Linguistics for Research Purposes. Her main research areas include ESAP course design, and testing ESP

Pr. Dr. Désirée Verdonk

is an academic member of staff at the University of Applied Sciences in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. From 2000 to 2017 she was Head of the English Department, which offers classes at both Master and Bachelor level in business, health sciences, police leadership, training and sports. She holds an MA in interpreting and translating and a PhD in Social and Economic History both from the University of Vienna. After her MA degree she spent a year at Leicester University (UK) teaching German.  She moved on to a research assistant position at the Business History Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. Research in the area of “Bank-Industry Relations in Interwar Europe” resulted in several papers presented at international conferences and in publications. She also served as Chief Executive Officer of the Austrian Fachhochschulrat (accreditation and evaluation council for Austrian Universities of Applied Sciences). In 1997 she joined the University of Applied Sciences in Wiener Neustadt.  Since 2018 she has been General Secretary of EALTHY (European Association of Language Teachers for Healthcare.

Désirée Verdonk has been actively involved in developing and teaching ESP courses in different health sciences degree programmes at her University. Her research interests are Medical/Healthcare English, English for the Workplace (E4WP) and educational standards in Austria in EFL. She has published several papers and has presented papers at various national and international conferences

Prof. Fatiha KAÏD BERRAHAL

is a senior lecturer of literature at Oran’s Higher Teachers’College. Her researches in English are particularly focused in litearture and language . Teaching dealing with critical thinking as both a 21st century skill and pedagogy. She has shaped various doctorate programs since 2009/2010, an active member in many research projects both domestically and abroad.

Dr. Aleksandra Łuczak

 (PhD, MA) – an applied linguist and a legal and business English teacher, the Director of the Centre for Languages and Legal English Section at Kozminski University in Warsaw, Poland. A graduate of the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw from which she also holds a doctor’s degree in applied linguistics. Her PhD thesis deals with Then Construction and Evaluation of English for Specific Purposes Syllabus and was prepared under the supervision of Prof. Hanna Komorowska.   During her teaching career, she has been successfully running various types of English courses ranging from one-to-one traditional and online sessions with prestigious clients to group classes at various levels of proficiency. Since 1997 an ESP teacher at Kozminski University in Warsaw where she has been running a variety of business English and legal English courses preparing students for international certificate examinations: LCCI and TOLES. She also lectures on Academic Skills, Plain English Writing for Lawyers, Understanding the Language of English Contracts, Business Culture, and Law in Film.

Apart from teaching, she is also a regular presenter at conferences and her conference papers deal with teaching English for Specific Purposes, modelling ESP courses, professional development of language teachers, the use of technologies in foreign language teaching. The full list of her publications can be accessed on luczak.edu.pl. She has been granted eight KU Rector’s awards for her publications. She regularly peer reviews other scholars’ papers for publication in scientific journals and post-conference proceedings.

An author of numerous teaching materials for ESP courses; a series of her legal English lessons was published in The Teacher Magazine. She cooperates with language schools and training institutions providing them with teacher training and blended learning solutions for their foreign language courses. An active member of EULETA (European Union Legal English Teachers Association) participating in its all recent events, running workshops and presentations, collaborating with other members. Her interests also include the use of the latest technologies in language teaching and her recent project, which she is particularly proud of, involved co-developing innovative software for language testing

Dr Katalin Egri Ku-Mesu

is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Leicester United Kingdom  and works on the MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL programme. She is also an External Examiner in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics and a Doctor Philosophiae degree in American Literature. Her professional experience and interests include English language teaching, English language teacher training and education, EAP, academic literacies, English as a medium of instruction (EMI), language teaching management, language and culture, intercultural communication and discourse analysis. She serves on the committee of the IATEFL ESPSIG as Editor-in-Chief of the ESPSIG journal Professional and Academic English.

Dr. ZAGHAR  Fatma

is an associate professor  at the University of Oran -2– , Algeria. She earns a PhD in Didactics. Her research and teaching interests lie in the areas of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Teaching, Intercultural Studies, and Educational Psychology

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