New Directions in English for Specific Purposes Research

by Belcher, Diane; Johns, Ann M.; Paltridge, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780472034604
• ISBN10: 047203460X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-07
• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr

Summary

Studying language, discourses, and contexts of use--as well as student needs, in the broadest sense--and thenapplying these findings to the pedagogical practices, is what distinguishes ESP from other branches of applied linguistics and language teaching. The fundamental arguments in this volume are that ESP researchers must use all of the tools available to systematically assess the needs, identities, and issues faced by learners and the language and discourses of their contexts--as well as the "frames" brought to the context by the researchers themselves. In addition, ESP researchers must continue to develop the convergence between research, teaching, and learning as the profession continues to advance. This volume has two parts: Issues in ESP Research, which includes chapters by Ken Hyland, Brian Paltridge and Wei Wang, An Cheng, Diane Belcher and Lauren Lukkarila, and Anna Mauranen, and Methodologies and ESP Research, which includes chapters by John Flowerdew, Christine Tardy, Sue Starfield, Ann Johns and Leketi Makalela, Lynne Flowerdew, and Magdi Kandil and Diane Belcher. Fittingly, John Swales, the father of ESP and author of Episodes of ESP, has contributed some remarks to close this important volume about the future of ESP.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Issues in ESP Research	p. 5
Disciplinary Specificity: Discourse, Context, and ESP	p. 6
Contextualizing ESP Research: Media Discourses in China Australia	p. 25
ESP Classroom Research: Basic Considerations and Future Research Questions	p. 44
Identity in the ESP Context: Putting the Learner Front and Center in Needs Analysis	p. 73
English as the Lingua Franca of the Academic World	p. 94
Methodologies and ESP Research	p. 118
Reconciling Contrasting Approaches to Genre Analysis: The Whole Can Equal More Than the Sum of the Parts	p. 119
ESP and Multi-Method Approaches to Genre Analysis	p. 145
Doing Critical Ethnographic Research into Academic Writing: The Theory of the Methodology	p. 174
Needs Analysis, Critical Ethnography, and Context: Perspectives from the Client-and the Consultant	p. 197
ESP and Corpus Studies	p. 222
ESP and Corpus-Informed Critical Discourse Analysis: Understanding the Power of Genres of Power	p. 252
Envoi	p. 271
Contributors' Bios	p. 275
Index	p. 279
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