PAPERS IN THIS SPECIAL ISSUE ON ESP: Editorial (1-12), Parallel ESAP courses: What are they? Why do we need them? (13-30), Translation, ESP and corpus studies: Bridging the gap in a French context (31-52), Multimodal L2 Composition: EAP in the digital era (53-72), Mapping specialized domains through a wide-angled interdisciplinary approach: The case of British higher education and research (73-94), An interdisciplinary approach to ESP: The milieu, discourse and culture of American technological risk companies (95-132), A multi-dimensional analysis of legal American English: Real-life and cinematic representations compared (133-150), E-portfolios as professional identities for university learners in an English for Communication and Media program (151-166)