The Handbook of English for Specific Purposes

Brian Paltridge, Sue Starfield (Herausgeber)

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592 Seiten

2012
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Hersteller)
978-1-118-33985-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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

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), co-editor of New Directions in English for Specific Purposes Research (with D. Belcher and A. Johns 2011), Companion to Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (with A. Phakiti 2010), and Companion to Discourse Analysis (with K. Hyland 2011), and author of Discourse Analysis: An Introduction (Second edition, 2012). 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).

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction to the Handbook 1 1 The History of English for Specific Purposes Research 5 Ann M. Johns Part I ESP and Language Skills 31 2 ESP and Speaking 35 Christine B. Feak 3 ESP and Listening 55 Christine C. M. Goh 4 ESP and Reading 77 Alan Hirvela 5 ESP and Writing 95 Ken Hyland 6 Vocabulary and ESP 115 Averil Coxhead Part II Areas of ESP Research 133 7 English for Academic Purposes 137 Maggie Charles 8 English for Science and Technology 155 Jean Parkinson 9 English in the Workplace 175 Meredith Marra 10 Business English 193 Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini and Zuocheng Zhang 11 Legal English 213 Jill Northcott 12 Aviation English 227 Carol Lynn Moder 13 English for Medical Purposes 243 Gibson Ferguson 14 English for Nursing 263 Susan Bosher 15 Thesis and Dissertation Writing 283 Paul Thompson 16 English for Research Publication Purposes 301 John Flowerdew Part III ESP and Pedagogy 323 17 Needs Analysis and Curriculum Development in ESP 325 Lynne Flowerdew 18 Genre and English for Specifi c Purposes 347 Brian Paltridge 19 ESP and Assessment 367 Dan Douglas 20 Technology and ESP 385 Joel Bloch Part IV Research Perspectives and Methodologies in ESP Research 403 21 ESP and Corpus Studies 407 Hilary Nesi 22 ESP and Intercultural Rhetoric 427 Ulla Connor And William Rozycki 23 English for Specific Purposes and English as a Lingua Franca 445 Catherine Nickerson 24 Critical Perspectives on ESP 461 Sue Starfield 25 Gender and Race in ESP Research 481 Ryuko Kubota And Liz T. Chiang 26 Ethnographic Approaches to ESP Research 501 Dacia Dressen-Hammouda 27 Multimodality and ESP Research 519 Paul Prior Conclusion to the Handbook 28 The Future of ESP Research: Resources for Access and Choice 535 Diane Belcher Index 553

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.9.2012
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 222 x 278 mm
• Gewicht: 2497 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-118-33985-1 / 1118339851
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-33985-5 / 9781118339855
• Zustand: Neuware