3rd International Symposium on Social Justice in English Language Education

The 3rd International Symposium on Social Justice in English Language Education will be held on 30-31 May at Bahçeşehir University's South (Beşiktaş) Campus.

The concept of social justice, whose importance continues to grow, has in recent years permeated the fields of Applied Linguistics and English Language Education, as it has many other social science disciplines worldwide, and as a result many articles, books, book chapters, master's theses and doctoral dissertations addressing social justice and language teaching have been published. Similarly, a significant number of academics from Türkiye have turned to social justice as a research topic.

This year, the Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Educational Sciences is hosting the 3rd Symposium on Social Justice in English Language Education, which aims to bring together academics, teachers, teacher educators, activists, writers and everyone interested in the subject who work on social justice both in the international arena and in academia in Türkiye. The symposium will be held on 30-31 May by an organizing team of international academics that includes BAU faculty member Dr. Ufuk Keleş.

The keynote speakers of the symposium, themed "Language Education in Turbulent Times," will be Dr. Peter de Costa from Michigan State University, Dr. Ryuko Kubota from the University of British Columbia and Lecturer Dr. Yasemin Tezgiden-Cakcak from Middle East Technical University.

De Costa is co-editor of TESOL Quarterly, one of the leading journals in Applied Linguistics, and the current President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Kubota is the next elected President of AAAL. The invited panel speakers at the symposium also include Bedrettin Yazan, co-editor of TESOL Journal, one of the leading journals in the field, and Deniz Ortaçtepe-Hart, author of the book Social Justice and the Language Classroom, which attracted wide interest upon publication.

In addition to these speakers, the symposium will feature workshops, panel sessions, parallel paper presentations and student posters. For detailed information, visit www.socialjusticeinelt.com