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8. TRENDS IN TEACHING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2004

Diane D. Belcher
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Abstract

This review of trends in the teaching of English for specific purposes (ESP) presents recent developments in ESP praxis from three different but not mutually exclusive points of reference: the sociodiscoursal, sociocultural, and sociopolitical. In addition to a selection of exemplar practices, theoretical analogues are considered for each of these three socially oriented perspectives on ESP. For the sociodiscoursal approach to ESP, genre theory and genre-informed pedagogy are highlighted; for the sociocultural, theories of situated learning and their practical corollaries are focused on; for the sociopolitical, theories and applications of critical pedagogy are emphasized. Possible research directions for all three social turns of ESP are also suggested.

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TEACHING LANGUAGE IN SPECIFIC SETTINGS
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 24 , January 2004 , pp. 165 - 186
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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