Full Description
This edited book focuses on current practices, challenges and innovations in the emerging field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). By combining diverse, empirically-proven and innovative ESP practices from all over the world with inspiring theoretical input and reflections from experienced practitioners, the authors in this volume examine both best-practice examples and ESP programmes which by various metrics are deemed to have failed. This book will be of interest to practitioners, teacher educators and researchers working in the field of ESP, as well as readers interested in language education and curriculum development more broadly.
Contents
Chapter 1: Current Practices, Challenges and Innovations in ESP (Elvan Eda Işık-Taş and Nalan Kenny).- Chapter 2: The Classroom Brain: Building Upon Collective Knowledge (Monica Rocha-Antonin).- Chapter 3: Undergraduate Students' Expectations of Persuasion and Argumentation: A Pilot Study at a Middle Eastern University (Rachel Hall Buck).- Chapter 4: ESP for Art-Major Undergraduates- From the Perspective of English Learning Motivation (Chunyan Shao, Chen Chen and Guan Shuya).- Chapter 5: Challenges in Developing ESP Classes Under the Critical Literacy Perspective (Renata de Souza Gomes).- Chapter 6: Examining the Pitfalls Behind a Failed Japanese University ESP Programme (Brian G. Rubrecht).- Chapter 7: Language Activities Aimed at Social Competencies for Nursing Students in Practice (Monika Pociask and Anna Stefanowicz-Kocoł).- Chapter 8: Features of Electronic Feedback on Graduate Level Writing (Nur Yigitoglu and Yasemin Bayyurt).- Chapter 9: Language and Communication Training for Business Education: the Missing Competencies (Elena Belyaeva and Svetlana Rubtsova).- Chapter 10: The Statement of Purpose in Graduate Program Application: the Impact of Academics' Feedback on L2 Writer Identity (Elvan Eda Işık-Taş).- Chapter 11: Implications of Current Research in ESP for ESL/ESP Teacher Training (Amina Gaye).- Chapter 12: The Algerian Newly Recruited Teachers' Attitudes Towards Professional Development (Sidali Selama).- Chapter 13: Use of Action Research as a Viable Paradigm for the Professional Development of ESP Instructors (Suzan Kayanoz).- Chapter 14: Developing CLIL in Tertiary Education: Working with Tourism Texts (Mª Ángeles Escobar Álvarez).- Chapter 15: CLIL: A Public Technical University Experience (Tatiana V. Sidorenko, Yanah V. Rozanova and Olga B. Shamina).- Chapter 16: The Effects of Chat Language on Students' Academic Writing: A Case Study of Private Lebanese University Students (Wassim Al-Bekai).
