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Handbook of English for Specific Purposes

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Featuring a collection of newly commissioned essays, edited by two leading scholars, this Handbook surveys the key research findings in the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP).

• Provides a state-of-the-art overview of the origins and evolution, current research, and future directions in ESP

• Features newly-commissioned contributions from a global team of leading scholars

• Explores the history of ESP and current areas of research, including speaking, reading, writing, technology, and business, legal, and medical English

• Considers perspectives on ESP research such  as genre, intercultural rhetoric, multimodality, English as a lingua franca and ethnography

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Product Details
  • Weight: 1052g
  • Dimensions: 178 x 252mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Oct 2012
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780470655320

About

Brian Paltridge is Professor of TESOL at the University of Sydney. He is co-author of Thesis and Dissertation Writing in a Second Language (with S. Starfield 2007), Teaching Academic Writing (with L. Woodrow, D. Hirsh, A. Phakiti, H. Shen, L. Harbon, and M. Stevenson 2009), co-editor of New Directions in English for Specific Purposes Research (with D. Belcher and A. Johns 2011), Companion to Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (with A. Phakiti 2010), and Companion to Discourse Analysis (with K. Hyland 2011), and author of Discourse Analysis: An Introduction (Second edition, 2012). 

Sue Starfield is Associate Professor in the School of Education and Director of The Learning Centre at the University of New South Wales. She is co-editor of the international peer-reviewed journal English for Specific Purposes, and co-author of Thesis and Dissertation Writing in a Second Language: A Handbook for Supervisors (with B. Paltridge 2007). 

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