Introducing English for Specific Purposes

Introducing English for Specific Purposes presents the key concepts and practices of ESP in a modern, balanced, and comprehensive way. This book defines ESP and shows how the approach plays a crucial role in the world of English language teaching. Explaining how needs analysis, language and learning objectives, materials and methods, and evaluation combine to form the four main pillars of ESP, the book includes: practical examples that illustrate how the core theories and practices of ESP can be applied in real-world academic and occupational settings; discussion of some of the most hotly debated issues in ESP; insights on how ESP courses can be organized and integrated to form a complete program; reflection boxes, practical tasks, extension research questions, and resources for further reading in each chapter. Introducing English for Specific Purposes serves as an ideal textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate students studying courses on English for Specific Purposes or English for Academic Purposes, as part of degrees in English for Specific Purposes, Education, ELT, Applied Linguistics, TESOL or TEFL. This comprehensive publication is also an invaluable reference resource for pre-service and in-service teachers of ESP, and for English program managers and administrators.

List of figures List of tables Acknowledgments Introduction: how to use this book SECTION 1: Contextualizing ESP Situating ESP in English language teaching and learning Situating ESP in the world at large Introducing the four pillars of ESP SECTION 2: Understanding the four pillars of ESP Identifying the needs in the design of ESP courses and programs Deciding learning objectivesfor ESP courses and programs Deciding materials and methods in ESP Evaluating learners, instructors, courses, and programs in ESP SECTION 3: Applying ESP in real-world settings Implementing ESP in ideal, opportunistic, and just-in-time settings Dealing with challenges in ESP Moving forward in ESP References Index

Laurence Anthony is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan. He has served as Director of the Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering (CELESE), and has created large-scale ESP programs in academia and industry for over 25 years.