esp trends
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Presentation given at ESP PCE in Glasgow for IATEFL 2012TRANSCRIPT
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
[email protected]: dleetn