Developments in English for Specific Purposes
A Multi-Disciplinary Approach

Developments in English for Specific Purposes provides a practical and accessible update of major developments in the field.

Tony Dudley-Evans (Author), Maggie Jo St John (Author)

9780521596756, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 10 September 1998

320 pages
22.9 x 15.3 x 2.2 cm, 0.509 kg

English 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.

Subject Areas: ELT: English for specific purposes [ES], ELT: teaching theory & methods [EBA]