EDITORIAL - PROGRESS OF ESP THEORY

Authors

  • Violeta Janulevičiene Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • Liudmila Mockiene Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • Nadežda Stojković Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš

Abstract

From the onset of ESP teaching approach to English as a foreign language, it has been established as thoroughly pragmatic. Its theoretical foundations were laid by Hutchinson and Waters in 1987, in now canonical book, English for Specific Purposes. In it, they abstracted the distinguishing meaning of ESP as related to teaching general English, and its essential principles of needs analysis, syllabus and material design, testing. In 1998, in another seminal book, Developments in English for Specific Purposes: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach, Tony Dudley-Evans and Maggie Jo St John, observed that it is “significant that so much of the writing has concentrated on the procedures of ESP and on relating course design to learners’ specific needs rather than on theoretical matters.” To this day, there has not appeared a publication that would be perceived as all encompassing regarding the theory of ESP, as those two.

Author Biography

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

    Nadežda Stojković, PhD, Associate Professor, Lecturer of English  Language for Specific and Academic Purposes, Faculty of Electronic Engineering and Faculty of Medicine, University of Niš, Serbia. Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes, University of Niš; Visiting Professor of Theory of LSP, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania; Advisory Editor for Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK; President of the Expert Council of the Master’s Program Theory of Methodology of Foreign Language Teaching and Intercultural Communication, St Petersburg State University, Russia; External Reviewer  Khalifa University of Science & Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Main areas of interest and research: ESP, EAP, relationship between language and identity, pragmatics, literature. Author of four international ESP textbooks. Editor of three ESP monographs for Cambridge Scholars Publishing and two for Vernon Press, Spain/USA. Author of numerous chapters in monographs and articles in international journals.

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Published

2019-12-06

Issue

Vol. 7, No 3, 2019

Section

Editorial