Starfield S., Hafner C. The Handbook of English for Specific Purposes 2ed 2025

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Starfield S., Hafner C. The Handbook of English for Specific Purposes 2ed 2025

Textbook in PDF format A field-defining survey of research in the rapidly growing field of English for Specific Purposes, now in its second edition. The Handbook of English for Specific Purposes provides an up-to-date account of the origins, development, current state, and future directions in the study of English as used in its specific contexts, including medical English, business English, and academic English. Featuring research from leading authorities, this comprehensive volume addresses all key aspects of ESP, including speaking, reading, writing, legal English, nursing, assessment, intercultural rhetoric, multimodality, English as a lingua franca, and ethnography. The second edition of the Handbook is fully revised to incorporate new areas of ESP research and reflects changing demands on English Language Learners (ELL), including a new historical overview of the field by Prof. Vijay K. Bhatia and entirely new chapters English medium instruction and ESP research, materials development, teacher development, call center communication, Global Englishes and translanguaging, identity, and the emergence of digital genres. Unmatched in its breadth and depth of coverage, The Handbook of English for Specific Purposes: — Features original state-of-the-art reviews relevant to scholars and students working across applied linguistics and education — Features contributions by scholars working on ESP in a wide range of international contexts — Addresses current and emerging challenges in ESP, with implications for related fields of TESOL and English language education more broadly — Includes in-depth reviews of new ESP research findings and suggestions for further scholarship Part of the Wiley Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics series, The Handbook of English for Specific Purposes, Second Edition, is an essential reference for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, researchers, and educators working in TESOL, ELL/ELT, applied linguistics, and language studies. Contents Author Biographies ix Acknowledgments xvii Overview of the Handbook 1 1 English for Specific Purposes Research: An Historical Overview 7 Vijay K. Bhatia Part I ESP and Language Skills 27 2 ESP and Speaking 31 Christine B. Feak and Clarice S.C. Chan 3 ESP and Listening: Theory, Technology, and Multimodality 53 Christine C. M. Goh and Jean C. P. Lee 4 ESP and Reading 73 Alan Hirvela 5 ESP and Writing 89 Ken Hyland 6 Vocabulary and English for Specific Purposes 107 Averil Coxhead Part II ESP and Pedagogy 125 7 Needs Analysis and Curriculum Development in ESP 129 Lynne Flowerdew 8 Genre and ESP 149 An Cheng 9 English Medium Instruction and English for Specific Purposes 167 Diane Pecorari and Hans Malmström 10 ESP and Assessment 185 Dan Douglas 11 Materials Development and English for Specific Purposes 205 Nigel Harwood 12 ESP Teacher Development 225 Part III Areas of ESP Research 243 13 English for Academic Purposes 247 Maggie Charles 14 English for Science and Technology 265 Jean Parkinson 15 English in the Workplace 285 Meredith Marra 16 Business English 305 Zuocheng Zhang 17 Legal English: Past, Present and Future 323 Jill Northcott 18 English for Medical Purposes 343 Gibson Ferguson 19 English for Nursing 363 Susan Bosher 20 Call Center Communication 383 Eric Friginal 21 Thesis and Dissertation Writing 403 Paul Thompson 22 English for Research Publication Purposes 421 John Flowerdew 23 Digital Genres and Practices in English for Specific Purposes 445 Carmen Pérez-Llantada Part IV Research Perspectives and Methodologies in ESP Research 465 24 ESP and Corpus Studies 469 Hilary Nesi 25 ESP and Intercultural Rhetoric 487 William Rozycki and Ulla Connor 26 English for Specific Purposes and English as a Lingua Franca 505 Catherine Nickerson 27 Global Englishes, Translanguaging, and ESP 525 Fan Fang and Will Baker 28 Critical Perspectives on ESP 543 Sue Starfield 29 Gender and Race in ESP Research 563 Ryuko Kubota 30 Identity and ESP 583 Ron Darvin and Yue Zhang 31 Ethnography in ESP 599 Dacia Dressen-Hammouda 32 Multimodality and ESP Research 619 Christoph A. Hafner 33 The Future of ESP Research: Resources for Access and Agency 641 Diane D. Belcher Index 659