Developments in English for Specific PurposesEnglish for Specific Purposes (ESP) is an important and distinctive part of English Language Teaching. Since the late 1980's ESP has changed in two very significant respects. Firstly, English for Business Purposes has become an increasingly important, even dominant, area of ESP. Secondly, the work of discourse and genre analysis on the one hand and the results of computer-based analysis on the other provide a fuller understanding of how specific texts, both written and spoken, work. This book provides an update on these major developments in ESP and a summary of where the discipline is now. It is practical and accessible while covering a wide range of both theoretical and methodological topics. It also charts how ESP has been influenced by new ideas in the areas of management training, human resource development, sociology and intercultural training. |
Contents
Introduction I | 1 |
A historical perspective on ESP | 19 |
English for Academic Purposes | 34 |
English for Business Purposes | 53 |
Language issues in ESP | 74 |
The skills in EAP and EOP | 95 |
Needs analysis and evaluation | 121 |
Course design | 145 |
The role of materials | 170 |
Classroom practice and beyond | 187 |
Continuous assessment and testing | 210 |
Epilogue | 230 |
Guidance for tasks | 263 |
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Developments in English for Specific Purposes Tony Dudley-Evans,Maggie Jo St John No preview available - 1998 |
Common terms and phrases
Academic Purposes activities approach areas Arthur Treacher's assessment British Council Business English car park carrier content chapter classroom common-core course design culture descriptors disciplines discourse analysis discourse community discussion Dudley-Evans Dunchurch EAP situations English for Specific English Language ESP course ESP practitioners ESP teacher ESP teaching evaluation example Extract feedback focus genre analysis grammar Hutchinson and Waters Hylo ideas IELTS input interac involves language and skills language learning Language Teaching learners lexical linguistic listening micro-skills monologue needs analysis non-native speakers one-to-one oral presentations organisation practice profes professional questions reading real content relevant rhetorical role Situation Analysis Specific Purposes spoken interaction St John structure subject course subject lecturer Swales target events target situation Task taught teaching materials textbooks tion topic types understanding University of Birmingham vocabulary words writing written