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 da...

Our Journal's tendency towards the real world in applied linguistics and literary studies should have significant epistemological and methodological consequences in researching the fields. The interest in the real world makes the problems we may have in our everyday lives our 'points of departure' in research. According to my experience of research in our universities throughout their history, ...