EDITOR’S NOTE

Authors

  • Nadežda Stojković, PhD Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš

Abstract

Over a year ago, I presented the Senate of the University of Niš the idea for starting a journal on English for Specific and Academic Purposes. My arguments were convincing enough. The Senate and the Rector approved, gave me full freedom in every aspect of the work on the journal, at the same time their support. The credit they invested acknowledged. Along with the message.

My personal thesis is that English for Specific Purposes, or Professional English, as I prefer to call it, is the most needed and thus most present form of ELT among adult population of learners worldwide, beginning with students. However, my tentative hypothesis on its perspective is that for long to come, ESP will not admittedly become the main stream ELT because it goes against the grain when it comes to the number of textbooks publishing houses can sell. The fact is there exist only general ESP textbooks, and they do not sell much. All the teaching/learning material, so badly needed, is designed by lecturers themselves. Just like in everything else regarding their work, yes, they still are and will be those solitary ‘dwellers in a strange and uncharted land’ who produce amazing quantity of research, the quality of it, the depth and insights, all being outstanding. This unenviable situation, I realized, can be turned into a huge advantage called - freedom.

 

Author Biography

  • Nadežda Stojković, PhD, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš

    Nadežda Stojković, PhD, Assistant Professor, Lecturer of English Language, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš, Serbia.

    Main areas of interest and research: English for Specific and Academic Purposes, academic writing,  relationship between language and identity, literature.

    Author of textbooks Written and Spoken Communications in English for Science and Technology, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš, 2005, and coauthor of English for Students of Information and Communication Technologies, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš, 2012.

    Author of a chapter in each of the following books: Identity and Difference, Peter Lang Publishers, Switzerland, 2005, Metafrastikes Optikes: Epiloges ke Diaforetikotita. Athens University: Parousia, 2006, Languages for Specific Purposes – Searching for Common Solutions, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, Education Landscapes in the 21st Century: Cross-cultural Challenges and Multi-disciplinary Perspectives, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2008, Recounting Cultural Encounters, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2009, Identity Issues, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2010, ‘Cultural diplomacy as a Form of Intercultural communication’, Cambridge Schoolars Publishing, 2013 (pending), ‘The Liberation of the Self through a Self Imposed Exile’, in The Beauty of Convention, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013 (pending).
    Initiator and the President of the Program Committee of the First International Conference on Teaching English for Specific Purposes, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Univeristy of Niš, 17-19 May, 2013.

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Published

2015-05-20

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2015): Vol 3, No 1 (2015)

Section

Articles