Overview

With the unrelenting spread of globalization, the English language has been firmly established as the Lingua Franca. Now more than ever, the importance of learning English is paramount within nearly all professional and educational sectors. English for Specific Purposes (ESP) has long been accepted as an effective method for teaching English as a foreign language. In recent years, it has experienced an increasing presence in secondary and tertiary education across the globe. This is predominantly due to its learner-centered approach that focuses on developing linguistic competence in the student's specific discipline, may that be academics, business or tourism, for example. Positioning English for Specific Purposes in an English Language Teaching Context attempts to present and define the relevance and scope of ESP within English Language teaching. From mobile phones as educational tools to the language needs of medical students, the contributors to this volume examine and propose different epistemological and methodological aspects of ESP teaching. Its unique approach to ESP marks this volume out as an important and necessary contribution to existing ESP literature, and one that will be of use to both researchers and practitioners of ESP.

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The book entitled Positioning English for Specific Purposes in an English Language Teaching Context, edited by Nadezda Stojkovic, PhD, is a collection of 19 research papers submitted by 28 scholars who conduct research and teach at different worldwide universities. The publication covers a diverse and an extensive list of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) topics ranging from interrelatedness of ESP and information and communication technologies, usage and roles of case studies, students' diaries and real projects in ESP teaching to material design, learning motivation and many other topics relevant to the study and practice of ESP. The collection includes papers dealing with different ESP branches such as technology, engineering, medicine, business, economics, political science, and diplomacy thus demonstrating the heterogeneity of the conducted research and consequently being one of the major advantages of this publication. Another strong point of the publication is the shift of the research emphasis from a mere literature overview towards in-classroom practical experience of ESP teaching accompanied by students' feedback. The publication provides valuable insights into numerous innovative teaching practices in this ever-growing field thus making a substantial contribution to establishing one of the most needed forms of adult language teaching. ESP practitioners will appreciate the publication whose scope will cater for their specific purposes classes and inspire further research in the field. Prof. Dr. Dragana Bozic Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Osijek, Croatia The rationale behind the development of ESP has been to impart specified knowledge to the learner of English as a second language, but it has limited scope as it must remain within the confinement of the subject for which it has been developed. When you come across a book entitled Positioning English for Specific Purposes in an English Language Teaching Context it raises your expectation. That's what happened to me, and I was eager to read and see how ESP was being positioned in the context of ELT. The contents of the book came as a pleasant surprise. The boundaries set by the term Specific Purposes have been pushed in this collection of 19 articles. The book covers the integration of technology in the teaching of ESP, teaching-learning methods and their impact, student-centric research to analyse needs, practical task based teaching, study based research addressing employability, using technology to develop teaching aids and methods followed by other articles that widen the ambit of ESP and its impact. It is a book full of well researched articles. The topics are new provide ideas for further research in the field of ESP. It is time that this new branch of teaching English that started in the late 1960s develops into a more comprehensive method of learning English, e.g. by including literature into its curriculum so that the finer aspects of a language are also learnt by the learner. Prof. Dr.Somali Gupta, Department of English, Govt. V.Y.T.PG.Autonomous College, Durg (C.G.)

Author Information

Dr. Nadezda Stojkovic is currently Associate Professor at the University of Nis, Serbia, where she lectures in English for Specific and Academic Purposes. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes and an Advisory Editor for Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. She was also appointed as the President of the Advisory Council for the Master's program Theory of Foreign Language Education and Intercultural Communication at St Petersburg State University, Russia.

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