Basturkmen Helen. Ideas and Options in English for Specific Purposes

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2008. — xi, 186 pages. — ISBN: 1-4106-1704-1.This is a book about different approaches to English for Specific 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. 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 identify 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 learning are they based on?
What different roles can ESP teaching play?
What kinds of research are carried out into the communicative practices of professional, academic, and workplace groups?
How are theories from second language acquisition (SLA) reflected in ESP?
What links are there between the emergence of a sociopolitical awareness in education and ESP?