POSSIBLE REASONS WHY ESP IS UNDER RECOGNIZED IN ACADEMIA

Authors

  • Nadežda Stojković Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22190/JTESAP1903405S

Abstract

Hereby the claim is presented that among adult population of learners of English language in academia and life-long learning formats, the predominant approach in English Language Teaching (ELT) needs to be English for Specific Purposes (ESP), since General English has mostly been mastered by then, and because those learners then need linguistic training that would enable them to upgrade their professional efficacy and so remain competitive as demanded by contemporary professional/scientific global community. Nonetheless, such relevance of ESP for adult learners has not yet been recognized by main stakeholders in the field of ELT, namely academia and most famous ELT textbooks and reference books publishing houses, leaving ESP practitioners still on their own regarding professional development. This general overview is an attempt to rationalize the reasons for this paradoxical situation.  

Author Biography

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

    Nadežda Stojković, PhD, Associate 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

2019-12-06

Issue

Vol. 7, No 3, 2019

Section

Regular Papers