1st Edition
Towards a New Paradigm for English Language Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Asia and Beyond
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).
