Key Issues in English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education

English  for  Specific  Purposes  (ESP)  is  an  approach  to  language  teaching  that  targets  the current and/or future academic or occupational needs of learners, focuses on the language, skills, discourses, and genres required to address these needs, and assists learners in meet-ing  these  needs  through  general  and/or  discipline-specific  teaching  and  learning  method-ologies

Key Issues in English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education

Yasemin Kırkgöz

Springer International Publishing

2018

Abstract

English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is an approach to language teaching that targets the current and/or future academic or occupational needs of learners, focuses on the language, skills, discourses, and genres required to address these needs, and assists learners in meet-ing these needs through general and/or discipline-specific teaching and learning method-ologies. (Anthony 2015:2)The field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) emerged following the Second World War, when massive changes took place in scientific, technical, and economic activity. This was a new age of technology and commerce, which created a need for an international language. This role fell upon English, the world’s lingua franca ofscience, technology and business. With emerging developments in technology and economics a new form of learner who had their own specific reasons and motives for learning English came to the fore. Subsequently, an oil crisis arose in the early 1970s, which caused Western funds and expertise to flow into oil-rich countries. English suddenly found itself a big business and a valuable commercial commodity.

Contents:

Materials Design and development in ESP;

ESP tacher development; curricular Issues in ESP;

ESP, CLIL and EMI

Citation

Yasemin Kırkgöz. Key Issues in English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education. Springer International Publishing, 2018.

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