1st Edition

Introducing Researching English for Specific Purposes

By Lindy Woodrow Copyright 2022
262 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Introducing Researching English for Specific Purposes is an accessible and practical guide to research in ESP. It’s for novice researchers, graduate students and for ESP practitioners who want to do some research themselves. The author takes the reader step by step through the stages of research, starting with choosing a topic and reviewing the literature through to writing up research... Read more

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Developing a research project.

Chapter 3 Theoretical approaches to ESP research

Chapter 4 Researchable topics in ESP

Chapter 5 ESP research design: methodological approaches

Chapter 6 Quantitative methods in ESP

Chapter 7 Qualitative methods in ESP research

Chapter 8 Validity, reliability and ethics in ESP research

Chapter 9 Using research findings

Chapter 10 Resources for developing and conducting research in ESP

Biography

Lindy Woodrow is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Introducing Course Design in English for Specific Purposes (Routledge, 2017) and Doing a Master’s Dissertation in TESOL and Applied Linguistics (Routledge, 2020).