English for Specific Purposes in the 21st Century Innovative Perspectives and Practices

Elvan Eda Işık is an associate professor at the Department of Foreign Language Education at Middle East Technical University (METU), Türkiye. She received her PhD from METU and she was a visiting scholar at the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham, UK. Her research interests are discourse analysis, corpus linguistics and applied linguistics for TESOL. Her research articles were published in international journals such as English for Specific Purposes, Journal of English for Academic Purposes and Lingua and she has co-edited the book (with Kenny, N. & Jiang, H.) English for Specific Purposes Instruction and Research: Current Practices, Challenges and Innovations , (2020, Palgrave Macmillan).

Darryl Hocking is an associate professor in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. His primary research areas are discourse, genre, and corpus analysis, with a particular focus on the interactional genres and communicative practices in visual art settings and their impact on creative activity. His recent books include Communicating Creativity: The Discursive Facilitation of Creative Activity in Arts (2018), The Impact of Everyday Language Change on the Practices of Visual Artists (2022), and the edited volume The Language of Art and Artists (2025).