Plenary Speaker

Yasemin BAYYURT is professor of Applied Linguistics at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Türkiye, and one of the pioneering researchers in pedagogy of ELF and ELF-awareness within English Language Teaching (ELT). Her current research projects focus on English as medium of instruction (EMI) in higher education supported by Turkish Scientific and Technological Association (TUBITAK), and bi-/multi-disciplinary literacies supported by COST Action project “CLIL Network for Languages in Education: Towards bi- and multilingual disciplinary literacies”. She has extensively researched WE-/ELF-awareness in ELT; ELF-aware teacher education, multilingualism and linguistic landscape. Her publications include articles in various indexed journals (e.g., Language Culture and Curriculum, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, …); edited books and book chapters published by national/international publishers. She currently edited “Bloomsbury World Englishes Volume 3: Pedagogies” (2021), published by Bloomsbury, and co-edited “English as a Lingua Franca in the Language Classroom: Applying Theory to ELT Practice” published by Routledge, 2024.