Language for Specific Purposes

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781626164192
  • Weight: 295g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 01 May 2017
  • Publisher: Georgetown University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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In the United States today there is lively discussion, both among educators and employers, about the best way to prepare students with high-level language and cross-cultural communication proficiency that will serve them both professionally and personally in the global environment of the twenty-first century. At the same time, courses in business language and medical language have become more popular among students. Language for Specific Purposes (LSP), which encompasses these kinds of courses, responds to this discussion and provides curricular models for language programs that build practical language skills specific to a profession or field. Contributions in the book reinforce those models with national survey results, demonstrating the demand for and benefits of LSP instruction. With ten original research-based chapters, this volume will be of interest to high school and university language educators, program directors, linguists, and anyone looking to design LSP courses or programs in any world language.
Mary K. Long is Senior Instructor and Director of the Spanish for the Professions program at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Her research areas include twentieth and twenty-first-century Mexican literature and culture and cross-cultural communication between Latin America and the US. She has also presented and written about Spanish for the Professions and LSP.