Towards a New Paradigm for English Language Teaching: English for Specific Purposes in Asia and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9781032085579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 228 str.

Hajime Terauchi; Judy Noguchi; Akira Tajino

Opis

This book proposes a new paradigm for English language teaching based on concepts from English for Specific Purposes (ESP) research and applications as well as from growing evidence relating pattern recognition to language learning ability.

Spis treści

Foreword

HILARY NESI

Notes on contributors

Introduction: Why this book now?

PART I

Key Concepts in ESP

1 ELT: Past, present and future

JUDY NOGUCHI

2 ESP today

HAJIME TERAUCHI

3 Conceptualising the discourse community

TAMAO ARAKI AND HAJIME TERAUCHI

4 Expanding the horizons of genre analysis

JUDY NOGUCHI

5 ELF (English as a lingua franca) in business: Dynamics of teaching for business interactions

ANNE KANKAARRANTA

6 Assessing EAP (English for Academic Purposes)

NEIL MURRAY

7 ESP curriculum development: A systems approach

SAYAKO MASWANA AND AKIRA TAJINO

PART II

ESP in East Asia: Overview and Examples

8 EAP undergraduate curricula in Japan

YUKA IIJIMA, SACHI TAKAHASHI, ATSUKO WATANABE AND HIRONORI WATARI

9 ESP in South Korea

JIHYEON JEON AND YOONHEE CHOE

10 ESP/EAP in China: Growing amid challenges

JIE SHI, JIGANG CAI, JIANYING DU AND LIWEN LI

11 EAP in Hong Kong

JULIA CHEN

12 ESP/ESAP in Taiwan

SHIN-MEI KAO

PART III

ESP Practice: Suggestions from Japan

13 ESP in primary and secondary education

HIROSHI YAMADA AND SAYAKO MASWANA

14 EAP in undergraduate education

SACHI TAKAHASHI, TOSHIYUKI KANAMARU AND YUKA IIJIMA

15 EAP in postgraduate education

JUDY NOGUCHI AND MASAKO TERUI

16 ESP for tourism and hospitality

REIKO FUJITA

17 English for business purposes (EBP)

HISASHI NAITO AND HAJIME TERAUCHI

18 Materials development for EBP

MASAKI YAMADA, HAJIME TERAUCHI AND KOSUKE MIKI

Epilogue: New horizons for ESP

HAJIME TERAUCHI, JUDY NOGUCHI AND AKIRA TAJINO

Index

O autorze

Hajime Terauchi is a Professor of English Language Education and President of Takachiho University, Japan. He is President of the JACET (Japan Association of College English Teachers) from 2015. He is also a recipient of the JACET Award for excellence in academic publication (2017).

Judy Noguchi is Professor Emerita of Kobe Gakuin University, where she served as the first Dean of the Faculty of Global Communication. She was Vice-President of JACET from 2015 to 2017 and President of JACET Kansai Chapter from 2010 to 2015.

Akira Tajino is Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University, and Professor and Chair of the Department of British and American Studies at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies, Japan. He is a recipient of the JACET Award for excellence in teaching (2011) and the JACET Award for excellence in academic publication (2014).