esp trends

Current Trends

ESP in the U.S.

ESP Teacher Training

• What is done in your teacher training programs?o What are your core classes in M.A. TEFL programs?

ESP Teacher Training in U.S.Limited Opportunities

• Programso San Jose State’s

MATESOL with an Emphasis in ESP • “on hold”

• Summer Instituteso IUPUI

• Last offered in 2010

• Individual courseso Language analysiso Discourse analysiso ESP Methodology

• Independent study courseso Insufficient interest for

courses “on the books”

• E-Courseso For teacher training

outside the U.S.

Courses Offered at U.S. Institutions

• Computational Linguisticso Georgetown (D.C.)o U Michigan (PhD only)

• CBIo U Georgia

• ESPo Immaculata University

(PA)o IUPUI (IN)

• Discourse Analysiso Columbia (NY)o U Michigan (PhD only)o U Indiana

• Language Analysiso SIT (VT)o American U (D.C.)

What can we do?

• As ESP-IS and ESP SIGso Provide resources

o Provide information on need for courses• What do M.A. TEFL/TESL/applied linguistics graduates

do?• Where are most ESP courses taught?

o What else can we do?

Practical Research• What has helped me as an ESP

instructor?

o Genre Analysis• What do typical texts look like? • How are they organized? • What language is used? What verb tenses?

o Corpus Linguistics• What does a large body of material show me about

the actual language? • How can my students use corpora?

Genre Analysis in Practice

• Moves in legal case noteso Feak, Reinhart, Sinsheimer

• Statutory Analysiso Bhatia

Case Note Moves

Feak, et al. 2000

Move 2 - Language

Feak, et al. 2000

Move 3b

Feak, et al. 2000

Statutory Interpretation (using Bhatia’s approach)

Lee, Hall, Barone, 2007

Corpus LinguisticsPractical Applications

• Corpus Searcheso Corpus of Contemporary American English

(COCA)• http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/

oWhat do you think?• Filed an application __________• Indict _________

1/2. Filed an application with3. filed an application for4. filed an application under

COCA --filed an application

Indict + noun (can include article/modifier)1. indict three Delay associates4. indict the women10. did not indict Hardy16. will indict a ham sandwich

COCA Search - indict

Materials Adaptation

administration requirements

personal informationabout learners

environmental situation

professional informationabout leaners

how to communicate in thetarget situation

employers’ requirements

learners’ lacks, needs, wants

language information about target situations

adapted from Dudley-Evans & St John, 1998

Design based on Needs of Multiple Parties

Adapting Materials• No need to start from scratch

o Swales

• Choose chapters and language issueso Many publishers will give permission for you to use 1-2

chapters for a course at no cost if you ask

• Bring in additional materials as neededo General English materials are sometimes useful

• Take advantage of the Interneto COCAo Academic Word List

Materials Development

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Harnessing the Web• Find appropriate online resources

o ESP Resource Blog from Kevin Knight, current president of ESP-IS• http://

blog.tesol.org/blog/global-resources-and-leadership-development-in-esp

o Using the WWW Effectively • http://hrd.apecwiki.org/index.php/Education_Beyond_the_Cl

assroom:_Using_the_World_Wide_Web_Effectively

• Create a wikio http://onlinelearning101.pbworks.com

• Go Mobileo Twittero SMS

Change is Inevitable

ESP Practitioners must adapt to survive

Debra S. LeeCommunity Manager, TESOL ESP-IS

E-Instructor, Georgetown Law CLE/Lex Mercator

PhD Candidate, Instructional TechnologyUniversity of Tennessee, Knoxville

dleetn@gmail.comTwitter: dleetn