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The 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

Author Biography:

Brian Paltridge is Professor of TESOL at the Universityof Sydney. He is co-author of Thesis and Dissertation Writing ina Second Language (with S. Starfield, 2007), TeachingAcademic Writing (with L. Woodrow, D. Hirsh, A. Phakiti, H.Shen, L. Harbon, and M. Stevenson, 2009), and co-editor of NewDirections in English for Specific Purposes Research (with D.Belcher and A. Johns, 2011). Sue Starfield is Associate Professor in the School ofEducation and Director of The Learning Centre at the University ofNew South Wales. She is co-editor of the internationalpeer-reviewed journal English for Specific Purposes, andco-author of Thesis and Dissertation Writing in a SecondLanguage: A Handbook for Supervisors (with B. Paltridge,2007).
Release date Australia
August 22nd, 2014
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Brian Paltridge
  • Edited by Sue Starfield
Pages
592
Dimensions
171x245x27
ISBN-13
9781118941553
Product ID
22233704

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