LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13:9 September 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

HOME PAGE

Click Here for Back Issues of Language in India - From 2001

BOOKS FOR YOU TO READ AND DOWNLOAD FREE!

REFERENCE MATERIAL

BACK ISSUES

  • E-mail your articles and book-length reports in Microsoft Word to languageinindiaUSA@gmail.com.

  • PLEASE READ THE GUIDELINES GIVEN IN HOME PAGE IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE LIST OF CONTENTS.

  • Your articles and book-length reports should be written following the APA, MLA, LSA, or IJDL Stylesheet.

  • The Editorial Board has the right to accept, reject, or suggest modifications to the articles submitted for publication, and to make suitable stylistic adjustments. High quality, academic integrity, ethics and morals are expected from the authors and discussants.

Copyright © 2012
M. S. Thirumalai
Custom Search

English for Specific Purposes –
Research Trends, Issues and Controversies

Ajit Kumar Pradhan, Ph.D. Participant

Abstract

The domain of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) has had a strong research tradition since its inception in the 1960s. The present paper deals with the current research concerns of ESP in order to find out in which direction the field is moving. The information is gleaned primarily from the pages of the flagship journal of the field, English for Specific Purposes. Apart from this online Asian ESP Journal has been referred to trace the research tradition in Asia, especially in India. The present paper surveys data-based studies as well as descriptions of ESP programmes and environments. It then examines current issues that concern the field and concludes with an investigation of how far ESP programmes work in the Asian contexts.

Introduction: The Concept of ESP

English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is as a branch of English language Teaching (ELT) and refereed as ‘applied ELT’ as the aims and contents of any ESP course is based on specific needs of the learners. Unlike ESP, English for General Purposes (EGP), where courses are designed based on general needs of the learners. Although in designing courses for both ESP and EGP learners, needs analysis has been a primary focus, both differ in the approach of needs analysis. While ESP courses focus more on specific and immediate needs of the learners, EGP courses may not focus on specific needs of the learners as learners at that stage may not be able to specify their contexts of using language.

Origins of ESP

There are many reasons which might have led to the origin and development of ESP. Notably, there are three reasons common to the emergence of all ESP programme: the demand of a Brave New World, a revolution in linguistics and focus on the learners (Hutchinson and Waters, 1987).

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Ajit Kumar Pradhan, M.A. (English), M.Phil., B.Ed. Dip. in French (EFLU), Ph.D. Participant
The English and Foreign Languages University
Hyderabad 500605
Andhra Pradesh
India
pradhaneng@gmail.com
Custom Search
  • Click Here to Go to Creative Writing Section

  • Send your articles
    as an attachment
    to your e-mail to
    languageinindiaUSA@gmail.com.
  • Please ensure that your name, academic degrees, institutional affiliation and institutional address, and your e-mail address are all given in the first page of your article. Also include a declaration that your article or work submitted for publication in LANGUAGE IN INDIA is an original work by you and that you have duly acknowledged the work or works of others you used in writing your articles, etc. Remember that by maintaining academic integrity we not only do the right thing but also help the growth, development and recognition of Indian/South Asian scholarship.