Ideas and Options in English for Specific Purposes
This is a book about different approaches to English for Specifi c Purposes (ESP). Much of the literature in ESP to date has focused on case-by-case descriptions of individual teaching or research projects. It has also focused on practical aspects, such as course and materials design (Dudley-Evans & St. John, 1998). The purpose of this book is to go beyond individual cases and practices to examine the approaches and the ideas on which they are based. The book does not seek to promote any one approach but to iden-tify and illustrate the approaches in evidence today.