The Handbook of English for Academic Purposes provides an accessible, authoritative and comprehensive introduction to English for Academic Purposes (EAP), covering the main theories, concepts, contexts and applications of this fast growing area of applied linguistics.
Authored by specialists from around the world, each chapter focuses on a different area of EAP and provides a state-of-the-art review of the key ideas and concepts. Illustrative case studies are included wherever possible, setting out in an accessible way the pitfalls, challenges and opportunities of research or practice in that area. Suggestions for further reading are included with each chapter.
Essential readings for the IELTS is designed for adults who are interested in strengthening their reading skills for academic, personal, or career purposes. The book can be used for a variety of purposes. First, it is suitable for EFL learners in undergraduate classes of reading comprehension at university level. Second, the book can be used by undergraduate EFL students who want to expand their reading skills. In addition, the book can be used for coaching purposes; since the design of the book follows the design of the general training reading module of the IELTS test, the book can also be used for coaching.
Through a case study of the Los Angeles city school district from the 1950s through the 1970s, Judith Kafka explores the intersection of race, politics, and the bureaucratic organization of schooling. Kafka argues that control over discipline became increasingly centralized in the second half of the twentieth century in response to pressures exerted by teachers, parents, students, principals, and local politicians – often at different historical moments, and for different purposes. Kafka demonstrates that the racial inequities produced by today’s school discipline policies were not inevitable, nor are they immutable.
Translation and Lexicography includes a selection of papers presented at the 1987 European Lexicographers' Conference (EURALEX). The volume gives a comprehensive impression of new developments in the making and use of dictionaries for translation purposes, providing practical and theoretical approaches, general and in-depth studies.
Teaching English for Specific Purposes: An Introduction
ESP English for Specific Purposes) involves teaching and learning the specific skills and language needed by particular learners fur a particular purpose. The P in ESP is always a professional purpose — a set of skills that learners currently need in their work or will need in their professional careers. This broad definition can be taken to include business skills, such as English for Job-hunting or Presentations, but many ESP teachers sec their field as distinct from mainstream Business English.
