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.

Ideas and Options in English for Specific Purposes

Helen Basturkmen

Routledge

2006

Abstract

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. The work addresses questions such as: What types of ESP teaching are practiced? What are the alternatives in ESP course design and what ideas about language and learn-ing are they based on? What different roles can ESP teaching play? What kinds of research are carried out into the communicative practices of pro-fessional, academic, and workplace groups? How are theories from second language acquisition (SLA) refl ected in ESP? What links are there between the emergence of a sociopolitical awareness in education and ESP?

Contents:

Part 1: Preliminaries

Part 2: Ideas and Options

Part 3: General

Citation

Helen Basturkmen. Ideas and Options in English for Specific Purposes. Routledge, 2006.

Collection

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