Its main objectives are to identify the grammatical and lexical characteristics of the records.
Skills and strategies
He focused on the design of tasks that allowed students to process texts using the skills and strategies that were needed in the target situation.
Register analysis (1960-1970)
Focuses on the study of a language
Rhetorical or discourse analysis (1974-1980)
This focused on understanding how sentences combined to produce meaning.
A learning-centred approach (1987)
Subtopic
For Hutchinson and Waters (1987) the previous approaches were only flaws based on descriptions of language use.
ESP Development.
Target situation analysis (1980-1987)
At this stage it was proposed to take the existing knowledge and establish it on a more scientific basis, by establishing procedures for relating language analysis more closely to learners' reasons for learning.
Relationship to the ELT
His approach is based on teaching the language to meet the specific needs of the student
