CALL FOR PAPERS: STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEȘ-BOLYAI PHILOLOGIA SPECIAL ISSUE (GUEST EDITOR PROF. KEN HYLAND ET AL.)

Call for papers: Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia (Special Issue 4/2024)
Topic: Languages for Specific and Academic Purposes

Guest editors:
Professor Ken Hyland, University of East Anglia, UK
Dr. Octavia Raluca Zglobiu-Sandu, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania
Dr. Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania

This special issue focuses on Languages for Specific Purposes and welcomes papers taking a research, pedagogical or theoretical perspective on the topic. Language for specific purposes (LSP) is an approach to language education based on identifying the specific language features, discourse practices, and communicative skills of target academic groups, and which recognizes the subject-matter needs and expertise of learners. It sees itself as sensitive to contexts of discourse and action and seeks to develop research-based pedagogies to assist study, research or publication in English. It requires teachers to identify the diversity of disciplinary languages used in the workplace or academy and encourage students to engage analytically with target discourses and develop a critical understanding of the contexts in which they are used. This is probably the most widely adopted approach to language instruction in higher education today, involving thousands of teachers and students across the world.

This special issue of Studia addresses research on LSP or the application of understandings from it in the classroom. We are not only interested in empirical research but also classroom practices, and theoretical discussions. A point of central importance is that each chapter is directly about specific language instruction, either using English or another language. We are aware that LSP instruction occurs in a wide range of settings, is aimed at learners with various backgrounds (immigrant, foreign language, 3rd language, etc.), operates in various contexts (e.g., genre-based pedagogy, teaching for general or specific academic/occupational purposes), focuses on different modalities (print-based, digital, multimodal, oral), and encompasses a host of teacher activities (e.g., syllabus design, materials development, instructional delivery, provision of feedback, assessment). We are interested in papers covering any topical aspects in these diverse academic contexts.

For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, please contact: K.Hyland@uea.ac.uk, octavia.zglobiu@ubbcluj.ro, andrada.pintilescu@ubbcluj.ro

Please refer to the Instructions for Authors to prepare your manuscript.

For more information, please see this document.