ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES

Honelako gehiago

ESP

by sarai lucia Rios santiz

World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World

by Joshua Chung

Chomsky, Noam

by Medizin Wissen

Levels of a language

by Vladimir KOBELEV

Focuses on:

ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES

Goals:

Meet specific needs of learners.

Allow learners to have language skills on order to carry out a role.

Discover how people use discourse to create, sustain, and change social communities.

Specific communicative needs.

Practices of particular social groups.

Influences:

Discourse Analysis

Influenced by Systemic Functional Linguistics.

Involved attention to features of texts and their rhetorical purposes.

Social Constructionist Theory

Knowledge and social reality are created through daily interactions.

The mainstream theoretical perspective.

Contrastive Rhetoric

Assume that such differences may influence how students write in English.

Influenced the study of academic and professional cultures.

Critical perspectives

Develop:

a critical awareness of how language works to support institutional hierarchies and inequalities.

a growing sense in ESP to make discourses.

Ethnography

Used to argue for pedagogic appropriacy.

Useful in exploring student practices.

Helps to identify the discursive practices.

Focuses on a holistic explanation of communicative behavior.

Gives a participant-oriented description of individuals' cultural practices.

Needs Analysis

Focused on: lexical and syntactic features of texts

Rights analysis

Refers to a framework for studying power relations in classrooms and institutions.

Defines: specific sets of skills, texts, linguistic forms, communicative practices.

Learner needs

What the learner must do in order to learn.