English for Specific Purposes

Contents

Notes on Contributors vii

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction to the Handbook 1

 1 The History of English for Specific Purposes Research 5

Ann M. Johns

Part I ESP and Language Skills 31

 2 ESP and Speaking 35, Christine B. Feak

 3 ESP and Listening 55, Christine C. M. Goh

 4 ESP and Reading 77

Alan Hirvela

 5 ESP and Writing 95

Ken Hyland

 6 Vocabulary and ESP 115

Averil Coxhead

Part II Areas of ESP Research 133

 7 English for Academic Purposes 137

Maggie Charles

 8 English for Science and Technology 155

Jean Parkinson

 9 English in the Workplace 175

Meredith Marra

10 Business English 193

Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini and Zuocheng Zhang

11 Legal English 213

Jill Northcott

12 Aviation English 227

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13 English for Medical Purposes 243

Gibson Ferguson

14 English for Nursing 263

Susan Bosher

15 Thesis and Dissertation Writing 283

Paul Thompson

16 English for Research Publication Purposes 301

John Flowerdew

Part III ESP and Pedagogy 323

17 Needs Analysis and Curriculum Development in ESP 325

Lynne Flowerdew

18 Genre and English for Specifi c Purposes 347

Brian Paltridge

19 ESP and Assessment 367

Dan Douglas

20 Technology and ESP 385

Joel Bloch

Part IV Research Perspectives and Methodologies in ESP Research 403

21 ESP and Corpus Studies 407

Hilary Nesi

22 ESP and Intercultural Rhetoric 427

Ulla Connor And William Rozycki

23 English for Specifi c Purposes and English as a Lingua Franca 445

Catherine Nickerson

24 Critical Perspectives on ESP 461

Sue Starfi eld

25 Gender and Race in ESP Research 481

Ryuko Kubota And Liz T. Chiang

26 Ethnographic Approaches to ESP Research 501

Dacia Dressen-Hammouda

27 Multimodality and ESP Research 519

Paul Prior

Conclusion to the Handbook

28 The Future of ESP Research: Resources for Acce

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