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The Handbook of English for Specific Purposes (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

Featuring a collection of newly commissioned essays, edited by two leading scholars, this Handbook surveys the key research findings in the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). * Provides a state-of-the-art overview of the origins and evolution, current research, and future directions in ESP * Features newly-commissioned contributions from a global team of leading scholars * Explores the history of ESP and current areas of research, including speaking, reading, writing, technology, and business, legal, and medical English * Considers perspectives on ESP research such as genre, intercultural rhetoric, multimodality, English as a lingua franca and ethnography

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Autor

Brian Paltridge is Professor of TESOL at the University of Sydney. He is co-author of Thesis and Dissertation Writing in a Second Language (with S. Starfield, 2007), Teaching Academic Writing (with L. Woodrow, D. Hirsh, A. Phakiti, H. Shen, L. Harbon, and M. Stevenson, 2009), and co-editor of New Directions in English for Specific Purposes Research (with D. Belcher and A. Johns, 2011). Sue Starfield is Associate Professor in the School of Education and Director of The Learning Centre at the University of New South Wales. She is co-editor of the international peer-reviewed journal English for Specific Purposes, and co-author of Thesis and Dissertation Writing in a Second Language: A Handbook for Supervisors (with B. Paltridge, 2007). 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118339923
• Artikelnr.: 37337998

Rezensionen

"Though this volume is intended for graduate students andteachers of TESOL and applied linguistics, the accessible style ofthe handbook appeals to a wider audience. Overall, this bookis an invaluable resource for teaching and research." (Discourse Studies, 18 November 2014)

"The Handbook of English for Specific Purposes would makean excellent addition to school or university collections. Itcould also be an excellent textbook for a dedicated course on ESPin a teacher education program . . . The Handbook provides a broadoverview of the field, with sections specifically oriented toteachers, administrators and/or teacher educators ('ESP andlanguage skills', 'ESP and pedagogy'), as well asto researchers ('Areas of ESP research',

Researchperspectives and methodologies in ESPresearch')." (English Australia Journal, 1March 2013)

"English for Specific Purposes has undergone a process ofdiversification in the latest years. This volume provides acomplete overview of today's ESP research, which makes itcompulsory reading for any scholar in the field." -Inmaculada Fortanet Gómez, Universitat Jaume I

"This handbook is an excellent state-of-the-art survey ofresearch in the field of English for Specific Purposes. As it isboth authoritative and user-friendly, it is a precious referencework for both scholars and students." - MaurizioGotti, Università di Bergamo

"This excellent volume covers the latest scholarship,research methods, and teaching practices in various areas of ESP.The chapters provide in-depth and accessibly-written perspectiveson how ESP intersects with genre analysis, discourse communities,corpus linguistics, multimodal texts, and criticalpedagogy." - Sunny Hyon, California State University, SanBernardino