105214005 English for Specific Purposes Chapter II ESP CHARACTERISTICS AND SUBCHARACTERISTICS ESP currently possesses three specifics referents in the world of English language education: a. Specific subsets of the English language that are required to carry out specific task for specific purposes. b. A branch of language education that studies and teaches subsets of English to assist learners in successfully carrying out specific task for specific purposes. c. A movement that
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Inventories (experience’s‚ hobbies‚ skills‚ beliefs‚ etc.) – Familiar Topic • Clustering There are generally three purposes for speaking: 1. To inform [ explain‚ report or demonstrate] 2. To persuade [ sell‚ advocate or defend] 3. To honor [ praise‚ remember‚ celebrate] Example: Base Jumping 1. My purpose is to explain base jumping. 2. My purpose is to sign-up new base jumpers 3. My purpose is to honor the Calgary doctor who died while base jumping in the Grand Canyon Examples: Poker 1. What
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English for Specific Purposes The advancement of business and communication technology in the course of past twenty years has revolutionized the field of English language teaching and has radically served the attention of course designers from teaching English for Academic purposes to teaching for more specialized purposes‚ English for Specific Purposes (ESP). The teaching of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) falls within the framework of what is generally called English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
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associated in particular with the work of Peter Strevens (Haliiday‚ Mcintosh and Strevens‚ 1964)‚ Jack Ewer (Ewer and Latorre‚ 1969) and John Swales (1971). Operating on the basic principle that the English of‚ say‚ Electrical Engineering constituted a specific register different from that of‚ say‚ Biology or of General English‚ the aim of the analysis was to identify the grammatical and lexical features of these registers Teaching materials
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a straight answer to the question ‘what is ESP?’ we will begin instead with the following question: ‘Why ESP?’ After all‚ the English Language world got along well enough without it for many years. However‚ from the early 1960’s‚ English for Specific Purposes (ESP) has grown to become one of the most prominent areas of EFL teaching today. Its development is reflected in the increasing number of universities offering an MA in ESP (e.g. The University of Birmingham‚ and Aston
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INFORMATIVE SPEECH OUTLINE! Subject: Tornadoes General Purpose: To inform the audience about tornadoes Specific Purpose: Today I will discuss some fascinating facts about tornadoes. Also‚ I will discuss the causes‚ occurrences‚ myths‚ and oddities associated with tornadoes. Introduction: Have you ever seen a tornado or known someone who has? Tornadoes can be devastating and can occur anywhere at anytime so you may be affected by one or know someone who will. I am fascinated by
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Megan Montgomery Com 105 Stephanie Brown October 3‚2013 Armenia Specific Purpose: To inform the audiance of the culture and problems of Armenia. Central Ideas: Music‚ the arts and tough times‚ shape what Armenia is in present day. Introduction I. The Armenian people have had their share of hard times. II. But in my research‚ they have learned to start over and flurish. II. With exstensive gift giving‚ the love of music and unique art froms have brought them from the dark times
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English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is one of the significant features in the field of English Language Teaching; and‚ it is an important branch of the EFL/ESL (English as a Foreign/Second Language) arena. In the backdrop of the expansion of various fields and branches of knowledge‚ it assumes the status of a significant branch in English Language Teaching (ELT). ESP courses gain prominence and the concept of teaching of ESP has been accepted all over the world. Most of the countries are implementing
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Euthanasia William Edwards December 3‚ 2012 HCA 322 Linda Hoppe Euthanasia is a very controversial topic with people not just in America‚ but around the world. Let’s start with defining euthanasia and the two different type of euthanasia. Euthanasia is‚ “the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy” (Merriam-Webster‚ 2012). There are two different types of
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Euthanasia‚ as defined by many philosophers‚ should only be morally permissible in certain circumstances where it benefits the one who dies. It is a widely held belief that an act of euthanasia aims at benefiting the one who dies. Using Kantian ethics as a model‚ one can determine that: It is morally permissible to engage in voluntary acts of euthanasia; it is morally permissible to engage in acts of nonvoluntary euthanasia‚ and; it is never morally permissible to engage in acts of involuntary euthanasia
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