Introducing English for Specific Purposes
"Introducing English for Specific Purposes presents the key concepts and practices of ESP in a modern, balanced, and comprehensive way. This book defines ESP and shows how the approach plays a crucial role in the world of English language teaching. Explaining how needs analysis, language and learning objectives, materials and methods, and evaluation combine to form the four main pillars of ESP, the book includes:practical examples that illustrate how the core theories and practices of ESP can b…
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- Full title :Introducing English for Specific Purposes / Laurence Anthony.
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"Introducing English for Specific Purposes presents the key concepts and practices of ESP in a modern, balanced, and comprehensive way. This book defines ESP and shows how the approach plays a crucial role in the world of English language teaching. Explaining how needs analysis, language and learning objectives, materials and methods, and evaluation combine to form the four main pillars of ESP, the book includes:practical examples that illustrate how the core theories and practices of ESP can be applied in real-world academic and occupational settings; discussion of some of the most hotly-debated issues in ESP;insights on how ESP courses can be organized and integrated to form a complete program;reflection boxes, practical tasks, extension research questions, and resources for further reading in each chapter. Introducing English for Specific Purposes serves as an ideal textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate students studying courses on English for Specific Purposes or English for Academic Purposes, as part of degrees in English for Specific Purposes, Education, ELT, Applied Linguistics, TESOL or TEFL. This comprehensive publication is also an invaluable reference resource for pre-service and in-service teachers of ESP, and for English program managers and administrators."--Provided by publisher.
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- Publication Date:2018.
- Edition:First edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2018.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource : : text file, PDF
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781351031189, 135103118X
- oclc:on1029503086
- LC Classification:PE1128.A2
- Dewey Decimal:SCLA0110
Table of Contents
Contextualizing ESP -- Situating ESP in English language teaching and learning -- Situating ESP in the world at large -- Introducing the four pillars of ESP -- Understanding the four pillars of ESP -- Identifying needs in ESP -- Deciding learning objectives in ESP -- Adopting, adapting, and creating materials and methods in ESP -- Evaluating learners, instructors, courses, and programs in ESP -- Applying ESP in real-world settings -- Implementing ESP in ideal, opportunistic, and just-in-time settings -- Dealing with challenges in ESP -- Moving forward in ESP.
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