Languages For Specific Purposes Opportunities And Challenges Of Teaching And Research

Originally, the 2nd International Conference of the Slovene Association of LSP Teachers "Languages for Specific Purposes: Opportunities and Challenges of Teaching and Research" was planned as a live event that would bring together LSP researchers and teachers and provide opportunities for sharing and disseminating original research data, project findings, classroom practices pertinent to LSP teaching contexts, etc. However, considering the peculiarity of the present pandemic situation, the time has come to add a new goal: to consolidate present partnerships and establish new contacts within the broader international research and teaching community in the form of an online conference. Although a transition from a traditional conference to a virtual one might be seen as a specific situation, we have seen it as an opportunity to learn new forms of cooperation or even as a reference point for all other similar future events. The resulting online conference comprised three plenary sessions and seventy-four presentations in parallel sessions by speakers from fifteen countries who delivered their presentations in five different languages: English, French, German, Italian and Slovene. We are especially pleased that the conference featured a special session dedicated to the Slovene language as LSP with the intent to promote further research and interest in our mother tongue. The present publication presents the abstracts of the conference plenary sessions and presentations.

Teaching World Languages for Specific Purposes provides learner-centered strategies, models, and resources for the development of WLSP curricula. This guide bridges theory and practice, inviting scholars, educators, and professionals of all areas of world language specialization to create new opportunities for their students.

This book is a reflective account of the work of the European Centre for Modern Languages, Graz, during its first medium-term programme, which lasted from 2000 to 2003.It presents some of the major current issues in language education that were dealt with during this programme and provides insight into the way the projects run by the ECML tried to address these issues and to develop practical, usable approaches to dealing with them.

Teaching World Languages for Specific Purposes provides learner-centered strategies, models, and resources for the development of WLSP curricula, inviting scholars, educators, and professionals of all areas of world language specialization to create new opportunities for their students.

This volume is focused on the teaching and acquisition of language for special, professional or general purposes, as well as the needs and challenges associated with foreign language pedagogy in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) or, more generally, Language for Specific Purposes (LSP). It presents innovative methodology and technology-integrated approaches that will serve to benefit teacher development and assist language practitioners in enhancing student investment and motivation. A pragmatic tool for utilization at the local level, this collection provides an international panorama of language pedagogy that is of great use to both junior and senior researchers. It will also serve as a source of inspiration for future and seasoned language practitioners and in-service teacher educators.

This volume presents a range of views about language, learning, and teaching in English for Specific Purposes (ESP). Its purpose is to go beyond individual cases and practices to examine the approaches and ideas on which they are based. The aim is for readers to adopt an analytical stance toward the field and to identify current perspectives in ESP and the ideas driving them. Ideas and Options in English for Specific Purposes does not promote any one approach, but rather identifies and illustrates those in evidence today. The main emphasis is on the links between theory and ESP teaching and research. Ideas from linguistics, sociolinguistics, education, SLA, and social theories are described. Links are then made between these ideas and ESP course designs, instructional materials, and research projects. Thus the book moves back and forth between descriptions of theories, teaching practice, and research. Part I introduces the book's approach to description of ESP and the framework used to investigate it. Part II examines ideas of language, learning, and teaching in ESP. Recognizing that ESP is taught in many different countries and contexts, the author draws on a wide range of examples of teaching practice and research from around the world and from different branches of ESP, including English for Academic Purposes, English for Professional Purposes, and English for Vocational Purposes. From Chapter 3 onward, each chapter includes Questions for Discussion and Projects, to encourage readers to research and analyze the practices of ESP in their own contexts and to consider the ideas they draw on in their own teaching. This text is geared toward graduate-level TESOL education courses.

This edited book focuses on current practices, challenges and innovations in the emerging field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). By combining diverse, empirically-proven and innovative ESP practices from all over the world with inspiring theoretical input and reflections from experienced practitioners, the authors in this volume examine both best-practice examples and ESP programmes which by various metrics are deemed to have failed. This book will be of interest to practitioners, teacher educators and researchers working in the field of ESP, as well as readers interested in language education and curriculum development more broadly.

The present volume deals with some of the challenges that modern foreign language teaching will face in the near future. These challenges are presented with regard to various domains of language teaching, e.g. mobile learning, the overall organisation of learning environments, innovative language teaching methods, internationalisation and language mediation. Techno­logical development and the rapid spread of computers, smartphones and social media are described and analysed as well as instrumental scaffolding, the multilingual classroom, the multilingual learner, pronunciation, and learner motivation.

The special edition of Inter Alia 8 Methodological Aspects of LSP: Teaching through Content, Multimedia, and Project-based Work, features three peer-reviewed papers originating from contributions presented at the Second International Conference of the Slovene Association of LSP Teachers of Languages for Specific Purposes: Opportunities and Challenges of Teaching, and Research. /// This special edition examines methodological aspects of LSP instruction in diverse educational contexts and pedagogical settings. The three perspectives addressed, i.e., technology-enhanced, project-based, and content-integrated language instruction, present highly relevant and topical issues. All of these also have important implications for the future of language learning instruction, be it onsite, online, blended, or hybrid.