English for Specific Purposes: Traditions, Trends, Directions

Autor/in	Salmani-Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali
Titel	English for Specific Purposes: Traditions, Trends, Directions
Quelle	7 (2020) 1, S.247-268 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2355-2794
Schlagwörter	English for Special Purposes; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Trend Analysis; English for Academic Purposes; Applied Linguistics; Educational History; Educational Trends; Comparative Analysis; Epistemology; Teaching Methods; Needs Assessment; Language Styles; Course Content; Language of Instruction; Task Analysis; Student Needs; Futures (of Society) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Trendanalyse; Linguistics; Linguistik; Angewandte Linguistik; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungsentwicklung; Erkenntnistheorie; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Bedarfsermittlung; Sprachstil; Kursprogramm; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Aufgabenanalyse; Future; Society; Zukunft
Abstract	English for specific purposes (ESP) began around fifty years ago as a result of pressing worldwide demands for fast-paced language training in occupational and professional settings, rapid revolutions in theoretical linguistics, and burgeoning pressures on schools and educators to focus on, and to be responsive to, learners' needs. It started within the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) but has gradually established itself as an autonomous subfield of Applied Linguistics (AL). This paper will review the origins, evolution, and status quo of ESP, and then predict the future directions of this important field. The theoretical, analytical, and methodological evolutions of ESP are reviewed, the positions of genre analysis, target language use situation analysis, and context in ESP are described, the 'just-in-case' EAP and 'just-in-time' EOP approaches are compared, and the text-first and context-first approaches to discourse structure analysis are compared. The paper predicts that ESP will adopt a wide-angled epistemological stance to survey the (a) discursive, (b) generic, (c) social, and (d) organizational structures of specialized texts and discourses, as well as those of texts and discourses simplified for the popularization of science, in a systematic and contextualized manner. ESP practitioners are also warned about the potential threats of teaching genres of power within ESP. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01