Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 234-451 (June 2026)

Special Issue

Extended Reality in English for Specific Purposes Teaching
and Learning in Tertiary Education



TABLE OF CONTENTS

Pages

EDITORIAL: TECHNOLOGY AND EXTENDED REALITY IN ESP: FROM NOVELTY TO SITUATED PRACTICE

Patrizia Anesa & Cinzia Giglioni
https://doi.org/10.18485/esptoday.2026.14.2.1

234-241

ARTICLES


SPEAKING IN THE METAVERSE: VIRTUAL REALITY FOR ESP SKILL DEVELOPMENT

Beatriz Chaves-Yuste
https://doi.org/10.18485/esptoday.2026.14.2.2

242-265

FROM TRADITIONAL TO INNOVATIVE TEACHING: ESP TEACHER PERCEPTIONS OF IMPLEMENTING VIRTUAL REALITY

Balbina Moncada Comas, Elisabet Arnó-Macià, & Marta Aguilar-Pérez
https://doi.org/10.18485/esptoday.2026.14.2.3

266-289

INTERCULTURAL TRAINING THROUGH XR-INSPIRED SCENARIOS IN ESP FOR TOURISM

Lucía Bellés-Calvera
https://doi.org/10.18485/esptoday.2026.14.2.4

290-318

IDLE PRACTICES OF ESP STUDENTS: ENHANCING PROFESSIONAL AND INFORMAL COMMUNICATION IN XR-SUPPORTED CONTEXTS

Jagoda Topalov & Ljiljana Knežević
https://doi.org/10.18485/esptoday.2026.14.2.5

319-342

PEDAGOGICAL PROOFING AND THE EXTENDED REALITY ADOPTION GAP:
A QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF ESP LECTURERS IN MOROCCAN HIGHER EDUCATION


Nouh Alaoui Mhamdi
https://doi.org/10.18485/esptoday.2026.14.2.6

343-368

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE PEDAGOGICAL USE OF EXTENDED REALITY IN UNIVERSITY-LEVEL ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES TEACHING

Rafael Seiz Ortiz
https://doi.org/10.18485/esptoday.2026.14.2.7

369-394

IMMERSIVE GLOSSARIES IN VIRTUAL REALITY FOR ESP VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION

Valentina Baselli
https://doi.org/10.18485/esptoday.2026.14.2.8

395-414

DESIGNING EXTENDED REALITY FOR ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES:
A CASE STUDY OF THE ESP-XR SYSTEM


Patrizia Anesa, Mariasophia Falcone, Valeria Giofré, Simone Marcutti, & Ellen Patat
https://doi.org/10.18485/esptoday.2026.14.2.9

415-439

BOOK REVIEWS


FROM DIGITAL ACCESS TO AI-MEDIATED LANGUAGE TEACHING: REVIEWING PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION, EQUITY AND IMPLEMENTATION

Javier Muñoz-Basols, Mara Fuertes Gutiérrez, and Luis Cerezo (Eds.)
TECHNOLOGY-MEDIATED LANGUAGE TEACHING:
FROM SOCIAL JUSTICE TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Reviewed by Miguel Fernández Álvarez

440-445

FRONTIERS OF CALL: RETHINKING TECHNOLOGIES, PEDAGOGIES, AND THEORIES

Mark Peterson and Nasser Jabbari (Eds.)
FRONTIERS IN TECHNOLOGY-MEDIATED LANGUAGE LEARNING
Reviewed by Xu Huimin

446-451