Giving voice to Applied Linguistics from the Global South

This Special Issue (SI) of System: An International Journal Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics is dedicated to research from the Global South. short introduction starts with some contextual explanation where we detail our idea bringing together voices geographical areas that are under-represented in journals general, also – so far System. We discuss social justice agenda relevant days highlight contribution made by researchers whose first language often not English. then describe writing workshops, which were starting point for this SI, highlighting mentoring work has taken place before production SI. In ‘Overview contributions’, summarize unique contributions included SI indicate impact these make way understand global issues. After framing articles form collection their individual merits, acknowledge professional development, craft emotional labour fed into a step as hope beyond academic orthodoxy hegemony one towards truly understanding multiple contesting voices. The ends sincere thanks all institutions colleagues involved