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Introducing Course Design in English for Specific Purposes
Introducing Course Design in English for Specific Purposes is an accessible and practical introduction to the theory and practice of developing ESP courses across a range of disciplines. The book covers the development of courses from needs analysis to assessment and evaluation, and also comes with samples of authentic ESP courses provided by leading ESP practitioners from a range of subject and global contexts. Included in this book are:
- the basics of ESP course design;
- the major current theoretical perspectives on ESP course design;
- tasks, reflections and glossary to help readers consolidate their understanding;
- resources for practical ESP course development;
- examples of authentic ESP courses in areas such as business, aviation and nursing.
Introducing Course Design in English for Specific Purposes is essential reading for pre-service and in-service teachers, and students studying ESP and applied linguistics.
Lindy Woodrow is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Routledge Introductions to English for Specific Purposes provide a comprehensive and contemporary overview of various topics within the area of English for specific purposes, written by leading academics in the field. Aimed at postgraduate students in applied linguistics, English language teaching and TESOL, as well as pre- and in-service teachers, these books outline the issues that are central to understanding and teaching English for specific purposes, and provide examples of innovative classroom tasks and techniques for teachers to draw on in their professional practice.
SERIES EDITOR: BRIAN PALTRIDGE
Brian Paltridge is Professor of TESOL at the University of Sydney. He has taught English as a second language in Australia, New Zealand and Italy and has published extensively in the areas of academic writing, discourse analysis and research methods. He is editor emeritus for the journal English for Specific Purposes and co-edited the Handbook of English for Specific Purposes (Wiley, 2013).
SERIES EDITOR: SUE STARFIELD
Sue Starfield is a Professor in the School of Education and Director of The Learning Centre at the University of New South Wales. Her research and publications include tertiary academic literacies, doctoral writing, writing for publication, identity in academic writing and ethnographic research methods. She is a former editor of the journal English for Specific Purposes and co-editor of the Handbook of English for Specific Purposes (Wiley, 2013).
For more information on this series visit www.routledge.com/series/RIESP
TITLES IN THIS SERIES
Introducing English for Academic Purposes
Maggie Charles and Diane Pecorari
Introducing Needs Analysis and English for Specific Purposes
James Dean Brown
Introducing Genre and English for Specific Purposes
Sunny Hyon
Introducing English for Specific Purposes
Laurence Anthony
Introducing Course Design in English for Specific Purposes
Lindy Woodrow
Introducing Course Designin English for Specific Purposes
Lindy Woodrow
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Contents
CATHERINE NICKERSON
SUSAN BOSHER
JILL NORTHCOTT
JOAN CUTTING
LINDY WOODROW
BRIAN PALTRIDGE
MAGGIE CHARLES
ZUOCHENG ZHANG
One of the most interesting and useful aspects of this book is the inclusion of authentic ESP courses which are not usually available. The courses included in cover a range of types of ESP and I am sure will be very useful to ESP practitioners in the field. I am extremely grateful to these course designers who have shared their ESP courses and materials: Catherine Nickerson from Zayed University, Dubai, for her course Language in the workplace; Susan Bosher from St. Catherine University, St. Paul, for her course English for cross-cultural nursing; Jill Northcott from Edinburgh University for her course English for lawyers; Joan Cutting for her course Airport English; Brian Paltridge from the University of Sydney for his course Writing for publication; Maggie Charles from Oxford University for her course Writing in your field with corpora; and Zuocheng Zhang from the University of New England for his Programme for business-English majors.
I also wish to thank the following for granting me permission to reproduce text and tables. In , S. Wozniak(2010) and English for Specific Purposes for the excerpt from 2512 on needs analysis; Y. Deutch(2003) and the Journal of English for Academic Purposes for the excerpt from 1424 on needs analysis; Paul Spence and Gi Zen Liu and English for Specific Purposes (2013) for the excerpt from 1078 on needs analysis; and Clarice Chan(2009) and English for Specific Purposes for the excerpt from 132 of a checklist for evaluating materials.
My thanks go to Brian Paltridge and Sue Starfield for their unfailing support and to Helen Tredget from Routledge who was extremely helpful during the production of this book.
AWL | Academic Word List |
BALEAP | The British Association Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes |
BASE | British Academic Spoken English Corpus |
BAWE | British Academic English Written Corpus |
BE | Business English |
BESIG | Business English special-interest group |
BEC | Business English Certificate |
BELF | Business English as a lingua franca |