1st Edition

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

Edited By Hajime Terauchi, Judy Noguchi, Akira Tajino Copyright 2020
    228 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    226 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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. The contributors to the volume argue that learners should not try to become proficient all-around users of ‘idealistic native-like’ English, but instead should be realistic about what they need to acquire and how to go about achieving their specific goals.





    The book discusses the present situation by describing the status quo of English language education in Japan, taking into consideration recent trends of CLIL (content and language integrated learning), EMI (English medium instruction), and TBLT (task-based language teaching) as well as the work done on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). It introduces new movements in ESP in Japan and in other Asian regions, covering topics ranging from genre analysis to corpus linguistics, and presents application examples of ESP practice in a range of educational situations in Japan from the graduate school level to elementary and middle school contexts. It also offers readers application examples of ESP practice in a range of business settings and expands the discussion to the global sphere where EAP and ESP are gaining importance as the number of ELF (English as a Lingua Franca) speakers continue to increase.





    The book will be of great interest to academics, researchers, and post-graduate students working in the fields of EFL and ESL.

    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

    Biography

    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).