Transcript English for Specific Purposes World Vitaly Ashkinazi

English for Specific Purposes World
Dr.Vitaly Ashkinazi
[email protected]
ESP World
Online journal for ESP professionals
English for Specific Purposes World,
or ESP Word
http://esp-world.info
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History
Profile
Readership geography
Traffic sources
Specialisms
Varieties of English
Journal presence on the WWW
Themes
Feedback
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“Various Purposes, Varied Approaches:
Teaching of ESP in the 21st Century”
Variety of ESP is the thing that is well reflected by
the materials accumulated in the ESP World
>10 years of its existence
From 2002 – present
International Readership and Authors
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Professional areas
Business, Finance, Legislation,
IT, Telecommunications, Engineering,
Medicine, Psychology, Sociology,
Social Sciences, Biotechnology,
Tourism, Hotel and Catering Industry, etc.
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Materials:
Students:
Institutions:
Language skills:
ESP avatars:
Skills:
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textbooks, articles, leaflets, Web sites.
adults and teenagers
universities, colleges, secondary schools.
writing, reading, listening, speaking
tourism letter writing, written business
communication, public speaking skills,
impromptu speaking etc.
thinking, code-switching, the fifth skill – an
ability to function fluently in two languages
alternately, etc.
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ESP teachers
Linguists
Experts in specific subject areas.
Avoidance or risk taking
Face losing fear of ESP teacher
A teacher can’t know everything!
Be prepared!
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History
History in an interesting subject and we have an
article on history of ESP through English for
Specific Purposes
A HISTORY OF ESP THROUGH ENGLISH
FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES. Martin Hewings.
ESP World, Issue 3, Volume 1, December, 2002
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History
The idea of a web-based journal was first voiced
at the turn of the centuries by Simon
Winetroube, then ELT Projects' Officer at the
British Council, Russia. It was later discussed at
the 8th ESP Anti-conference in St. Petersburg,
Russia in October, 2001.
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History
Most participants agreed that it could benefit the
international ESP community, if we had an
easily accessible electronic periodical with
contributions and readership from various
countries.
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History
At the start the publication received support
from English Language Teaching Contacts
Scheme and the British Council, Russia.
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The journal publishes authors from any
institution from all continents, without any
restrictions concerning the area of research, student
specialisms, etc.
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Guidelines for Authors
ESP
World is a free periodical for teachers, teacher trainers and
researchers.
The objective: to produce a site for ESP professionals to share
their research and teaching practices with the international
teaching community.
The target audience: ESP teachers.
The ESP Web-based Journal is a peer reviewed publication.
The journal provides the means for teachers to access webresources.
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Requirements for Papers
Articles
should be preferably in html-files or MS Word.
There are no requirements as for the length of manuscripts yet.
Articles should be sent by e-mail as attachments.
Provide a brief bio statement, please.
Your photo is welcome.
The editor reserves the right to make changes in any manuscript.
The author will only be consulted if substantial changes are deemed
necessary.
You should make sure that your full name, address and contact details are
attached to your contributions.
No previously published papers should be submitted.
Papers should be sent to e-mail address [email protected]
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Democratic and Tolerant
There
are many academic journals that publish articles
of well known scientists but ignore beginners or people
who are just about to start their careers. Such people
need a journal which is democratic and tolerant!
We strive to give space on the site to as many authors
as possible without compromising the quality.
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Recognition
“I was told that the article is not recognized in
China, if it is only available at the site as an online article and not published as an journal
article. If the article is not recognized in China,
it would be useless.”
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Publishing most submissions
Publishing most submissions and then having a
(moderated!) forum for (intelligent!) discussion
or a mechanism through which one could e.g.
get feedback and generate new ideas.
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Editors
India
Russia
Hungary
France
Bulgaria
etc.
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Authors
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Ludmila Kuznetsova (Russia),
Russian ESP project co-ordinator
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ISSN 1682-3257
Once the Journal was started, it was registered and got
a unique ISSN, universally accepted within the print
publishing world as a means of identifying the serials.
Recorded in the ISSN Register, ISSN are the more
simple way for finding and accessing electronic
resources through the URL addresses included in the
ISSN records.
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ESP World is indexed in Genamics JournalSeek
– a categorized database of freely available
journal information available on the internet.
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The list of our authors’ countries includes
Australia, Bahrain, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil,
Bulgaria, China, Cote d'Ivoire, Estonia, France,
Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Italy,
Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia,
Pakistan, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Spain,
Thailand, UK, USA, etc.
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Readership
The list of countries providing Journal’s
readers is much longer than the list of the
countries providing authors.
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Visitors Overview. June 12, 2007 - June 12, 2009
81,814
105,494
81,814
248,298
2.35
00:02:45
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people visited this site
visits
absolute unique visitors
pageviews
average pageviews
time on site
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All Traffic Sources
All traffic sources sent a total of 50,602 visits
Search Engines
38,850.00 (76.63%)
Referring Sites
6,155.00 (12.14%)
Direct Traffic
5,685.00 (11.21%)
Other
11 (0.02%)
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Visitors Percentages
50,602 visits came from 188 countries/territories
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Philippines Phenomenon
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Teaching in English from the first year at school,
hence many teachers.
Huge English schools for international students from
Asia with local teachers.
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Specialisms
Any English teaching that is not general is special or
specific, whatsoever. Just to imagine the scope of ESP
let’s name some of such domains: Business English,
Legal English, Medical English, English for Tourism,
English for Journalism, English for Academic
Purposes, etc.
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Varieties of English
English varieties are reflected in different names
for specific teaching domains.
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English varieties names
Title
Google
Yahoo
Business English
General English
Professional English
Legal English
English as a Global Language
English for Academic Purposes
English for Specific Purposes
3290000
4320000
566000
291000
63900
223000
530000
12800000
4200000
1500000
1090000
812000
689000
568000
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Most popular phrases among chosen ones are
"General English” and “Business Language”.
These data seem to confirm that the domain is
divided into many subdomains that definitely do
not have explicit borders and can contain
information relevant for teachers seeking
necessary data.
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Search results for "English for Specific
Purposes” (Google and Yahoo)
3 journals with online presence
English for Specific Purposes – Elsevier
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Asian ESP Journal
Sites of Ron Chang Lee and Arlyn Freed,
books, articles, and a link to IATEFL ESP SIG.
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Themes
The process of ESP teaching-learning can be considered
from different aspects and there are researches concerning
perceptions of faculty, employer, and students in the journal.
One of the keywords in teaching/learning is development that
reflects in different areas, e.g. Teachers Development, Course
developing
Age of the students is one of important factors in the process
as ESP is studied in secondary school, college, university etc.
Different tools are used in ESP: dictation, SMS, corpora, music.
Such aspects as Mother Tongue and Learning Strategies are
discussed.
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Articles on teaching English for Engineering
students include such aspects as vocabulary,
critical thinking, courses, and testing,
developing a set of competencies for teachers
of English in engineering colleges, Language
Skills, Reassessing the ESP Courses Offered
to Engineering Students in Iran,
Communication Skills, a course in English
for students of engineering with emphasis on
problem solving methods, making
engineering students speak.
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EAP is represented by articles on bridging the gap between
English for Academic and Occupational Purposes, reading
strategies of Greek university students learning English in an
academic context, ontological approach to the producent's
authorship in academic writing, strategies employed by
students learning foreign languages for academic purposes, a
comparative study of L2 readers' performances on general
purpose and academic purpose texts, developing academic
competency for studies in English (the Malaysian ESL
teachers' perspective), a critical analysis of the literature
review section of graduate dissertations at the university of
Botswana, collaborative learning in the EAP classroom:
students' perceptions, EAP and communicative use of
language, ESP/EAP classes for Sociology students:
establishing learning priorities.
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Biology and Medicine
Reading and speaking on Biology
and Medicine with a special textbook
Learning Strategies of English
Medical Terminologies in the
Students of Medicine
Internet-based medical articles in
EMP.
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Political Science
English for Satirical Purposes:
Humour, Culture and Language
Learning at the Faculty of Political
Science.
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Legal English
Syntactic Discontinuity in the
Language of UK and EU
Legislation.
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Social Sciences
Paragraph structure in social
sciences: a cross-disciplinary study
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Problem Solving Methods
A Course in English for Students of
Engineering with Emphasis on Problem Solving
Methods
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Lesson plan
The man who became rich through a dream
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ESP & EGP
On the Relationship between ESP & EGP
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Course design
Learner participation in the design of English
for Biotechnology
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Culture aspects
Mobility and individuality: two concepts ESP
students should know about American culture
English for Satirical Purposes: humour, culture
and language learning at the faculty of political
science
Cultural Consciousness Raising Abstract
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Quality and testing
Quality assessment in teaching English for
Specific Purposes
ESP courses, and testing with Cloze Tests
Quality Assurance in Language for Specific
Purposes
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Task-Based Learning
Tasks for Business Science and Technology English:
Evaluating Corpus-driven Data for ESP
Integrating content-based tasks into a language
classroom
Effectively Implementing a Collaborative Task-based
Syllabus in EFL Large-sized Business English Classes
Problem-Based Learning and Task-Based Learning
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Learning organisation
Effectiveness of Homework in ESP
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Internet
Internet issue are discussed in articles about a
project of mutual instruction in the global
classroom,
Internet-based Medical Articles in EMP
Learners attitude to learning ESP on the
Internet
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Internet
Internet issue are discussed in articles about a
project of mutual instruction in the global
classroom,
Internet-based Medical Articles in EMP
Learners attitude to learning ESP on the
Internet
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Internet
Internet issue are discussed in articles about a
project of mutual instruction in the global
classroom,
Internet-based Medical Articles in EMP
Learners attitude to learning ESP on the
Internet
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Needs Analysis is discussed in relation to
Travel and Tourism Students
Letter writing
ESP course design
Oral Communication
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Syntax
Syntactic Discontinuity in the Language of UK
and EU Legislation
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Vocabulary
Colour words
The vocabulary of English for Scientific and Technological Occupational
Purposes
Teaching vocabulary to Telecommunications Engineering students
An overview of modal auxiliary verbs in EST
Assisting L2 Students in the ESP classrooms with specialised vocabulary
acquisition skills
A corpus-driven study of non-equivalence in the language of finance (credit or
debit)
Learning strategies of English medical terminologies for the students of
medicine.
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Techniques
Music in the ESP classroom, role of selfcorrection in learning ESP
Critical thinking in ESL for postgraduate
engineers
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Curriculum
An ESP curriculum for Greek EFL students of
computing, material design for computer
science
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Articles on skills
L2 skills preparation for scholarship students
English language skills for engineering students
Assisting L2 students in the ESP classrooms
with specialised vocabulary acquisition skills
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Reading
Development of a new checklist for evaluating reading
comprehension textbooks, the effect of strategies-based
instruction on student's reading comprehension of ESP texts,
teaching writing and reading English in ESP through a webbased communicative medium: weblog, scaffolding reading
activities in a content-based course for students of engineering,
architecture and design, research into reading -writing
connections in English for Specific Purposes, reading strategies
of Greek university students learning English in an academic
context, reading and speaking on biology and medicine with a
special textbook.
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Speaking
Developing an ESP speaking course framework
for the foreign postgraduates in science and
technology at national university of Malaysia
Good practice in developing effective public
speaking skills
Reading and speaking on biology and medicine
with a special textbook.
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Writing
A needs analysis survey: the case of tourism letter writing in Iran,
English for Special Purposes textbooks for writing research
articles, faculty perceptions of EFL student writing, three
Chinese textbooks of written business communication in
English, the use of connectors in scientific articles by native and
non-native writers, teaching writing and reading English in ESP
through a Web-based communicative medium: weblog,
ontological approach to the producent's authorship in academic
writing, a process-genre based approach in the teaching of
writing for business English, research into reading -writing
connections in English for Specific Purposes, a survey of writing
needs and expectations of hotel management and tourism
students, projects developing ESP students’ writing skills.
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Listening
Authentic audio materials in ESP
Teaching listening skills.
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Communication
Developing engineering students' communication skills
by reducing their communication apprehension
Three Chinese textbooks of written business
communication in English
Analysing workplace oral communication needs in
English among it graduates
Developing small team communication skills
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“Fifth skill”
Ability to function fluently in two languages
alternately – Promoting the fifth skill in teaching
ESP.
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DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS’ ENGLISH FOR SPECIAL
PURPOSES COMPETENCE IN TOURISM STUDIES AT TERTIARY
LEVEL
Ineta Luka, Latvia
Abstract
The topicality of the present evaluation research is marked by the changes
in teaching-learning process, which is shifting from teaching to learning.
The study implementing a mixed method research design was conducted
from 2003 to 2007 in the fourth largest tertiary education institution of
Latvia, which among other programmes provides well-acknowledged
higher education in tourism.
The goal of the research was to study the efficiency of the English
language learning model in the development of tourism specialist’s
English for Special Purposes (ESP) competence.
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AN EVALUATION OF STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TO THE GENERAL
ENGLISH AND SPECIFIC COMPONENTS OF THEIR COURSE:
A CASE STUDY OF HOTEL EMPLOYEES IN CHIANG MAI,
THAILAND.
Michael William Cameron Brunton, Thailand.
Abstract:
The aim of this research was to investigate hotel employees’ attitudes toward
two components in an 8-week course of English studies. One component was
hotel English, the other general English. The findings of this research paper
are that the participants’ attitudes toward both components did not differ
significantly. The management of the hotel preferred to concentrate on just
specific English due to the main constraints of time and money. Satisfaction
with the ESP component was high however; it was found that the majority of
participants wanted to learn general English.
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AN ESP COURSE FOR TOURISM STUDENTS
Abdullah Coskun, Turkey
Abstract
This study aimed at developing a course based on the level and the
needs of second-grade tourism students at a vocational school in
Turkey. Two data collection instruments, a needs analysis and an oral
interview, were used to reveal students’ level of English and their
needs. It was found that the average level of English in the classroom
is A2 according to Common European Framework standards and
listening-speaking skills are perceived as the most needed skills at
work. It was also revealed that most of them would like to work as
waiters/waitresses or chefs and the restaurant is the most likely
setting to use English.
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ON “YES, WE CAN”: LINGUISTICS POWER AND POSSIBILITY
Krishna K. Bista, USA
Abstract
In this article I address a hitherto used buzz phrase in English, “Yes, we can.”
This phrase represents various forms of meanings—challenge, possibility,
ability, permission and opportunity in social, political and linguistics
domains. I consider the syntactic and the semantic properties of “Yes, we
can.” I also compare its conventional usages with more recent treatments.
The catch phrase “Yes, we can” has standard usage in sports, music,
language, literature and politics. Candidate Obama elevated it as a slogan in
his presidential campaign.
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Effectively Implementing a Collaborative Task-based Syllabus (CTBA)
in EFL Large-sized Business English Classes
Pi-Ching Chen
Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Cheng Kung University,
Taiwan
ABSTRACT
The purpose of the study is to design a collaborative task-based syllabus (CTBS) for
achieving a more holistic college Business English instruction in an EFL large-sized
classroom. The CTBS integrated teacher-directed content-based instruction and
student-centered task-based instruction. The distinctive characteristic of the CTBS is
the application of the simulation companies established by learners themselves, actively
involving their specific creativity and cooperation. To create a more collaborative
authentic learning setting, the CTBS applies various interactive teaching techniques in
the four-stage learning activities: company establishment, staff recruitment, business
transaction, and feedback and evaluation.
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THE EFFCTIVE TEACHING OF THE GENRE OF HOTEL BROCHURE
ZHAO Ning, Sanjiang University, China
Abstract
In this essay, genre-based pedagogy in the teaching of writing is
reviewed and discussed in the context of product vs. process approach,
genre-based approach, process genre approach, and teaching-learning
cycle. The review and discussion of the pedagogy are then related to
English for Specific Purposes (ESP). The classroom pedagogy in terms
of teaching hotel brochure (HB) as a genre is presented, which is based
on the integration of teaching-learning cycle and process genre
approach.
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Conclusions
A journal can be a source of
ideas, guidelines, and
information for teachers.
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Conclusions
International character
of the Journal allows to see
a wider picture of ESP
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Conclusions
Availability on the Web makes it easy to use
the Journal
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The journal continues its mission to unite, accumulate and
disseminate ESP knowledge whatever it is called (ESP, EAP, EIL,
EMP, etc.) and wherever it originated.
Despite existing definitions there are various views on this subject.
The main reason of it is probably the variety of purposes,
approaches and fields.
It seems natural that new names appear under the umbrella term,
ESP.
One reason for this is to describe specific ESP field as precisely as
possible.
It seems natural, justified and healthy.
It’s a sign: ESP is alive and begets healthy off-springs.
However, supporting the idea of self-determination I would like
to advocate the idea of unity that makes us stronger.
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Thanks for your attention!
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