ESP in Spain: Goals, achievements and prospects

de, Guadalupe Aguado; Fuentes, Alejandro Curado

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“…It is also important to bear in mind the aforementioned point in the University Reform Law of 1980, by which the creation of departments inside university systems was developed, bringing the notion of part-time teachers with almost no relationship with their colleagues. This is also important when analyzing the creation of ESP carried at Universidad Europea del Atlántico, due to the reason that many of the English teachers of the language's department are part-time and the coordination in the creation and development of these sessions are not always easy tasks due to the lack of time that part-time teachers spend as regards office hours (Aguado de Cea et al, 2012).…”

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Analysis of English for Specific Purposes Materials: Sports Sciences and Psychology Esp Materials in the Efl Classroom

Lourido-Badía

2024

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English as a Foreign Language (EFL) has become the course that most universities have decided to include in their curricula due to the necessity of acquiring English for their future careers in the globalized world we are living nowadays. In order to expand the knowledge of students, at the Universidad Europea del Atlántico – a private university based in Cantabria, Spain – three sessions of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) have been included in the subjects of EFL as part of the compulsory curricula of the different degrees offered. The aim of the present study was to analyze the degree of usefulness and appropriateness of the designed ESP sessions for the degrees in Sports Sciences and Psychology – which are mixed in the English classroom – through the design of a rubric that could check their validity for both the level of English and the level of knowledge in these specific topics for these students in their second academic year at university. The main conclusion was that the degree of relevance, utility and usefulness of the ESP materials taught depends on the teacher, his/her degree of implication, knowledge, and strategies he/she uses when creating these materials.

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“…Aguado de Cea et al (2012), attributed importance to the fact that these ESP materials have also undergone a great deal of criticism and it is necessary to remember that this subject is not facing the progression that it should, as it is still lagged behind in teaching contexts.…”

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Analysis of English for Specific Purposes Materials: Sports Sciences and Psychology Esp Materials in the Efl Classroom

Lourido-Badía

2024

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Multilingual Approaches to Specialized Language Pedagogy and Research: A Journal’s Perspective

Fuentes

2024

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Multilingualism and Specialized Languages: A Keyword-Based Approach to Research Publications

Curado Fuentes

2024

Multilingualism in Its Multiple Dimensions [Working Title]

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LSP (Languages for Specific Purposes) research can be represented by publications in a highly ranked international research journal, Ibérica, belonging to AELFE (European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes), and the international AELFE conferences. The present study explored these two research outputs as sample resources in order to describe specialized language research foci and directions integrating multilingualism over the past decade (2012–2022). The methodology for this study followed a keyword analysis, based on comparing the journal articles and conference papers with a larger reference corpus of academic writing. The results highlighted LSP research-related keywords at the top of the wordlists and salient thematic denotations derived from the contexts of these keywords. It was found that four main dimensions are distinctive in relation to multilingualism in these texts extracted from the journal articles and conference papers: Methodology, English as a lingua franca, groups of learners, and collaborative projects. While research articles tend to focus on methodological issues, conference papers describe more multilingual projects taking place in LSP contexts. It was also found that multilingualism especially stands out in teaching methods, translation, and lexicology. Findings indicate that multilingual conceptualizations are important, even though English dominates, in LSP research.

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ESP in Spain: Goals, achievements and prospects

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Analysis of English for Specific Purposes Materials: Sports Sciences and Psychology Esp Materials in the Efl Classroom

Analysis of English for Specific Purposes Materials: Sports Sciences and Psychology Esp Materials in the Efl Classroom

Multilingual Approaches to Specialized Language Pedagogy and Research: A Journal’s Perspective

Multilingualism and Specialized Languages: A Keyword-Based Approach to Research Publications

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ESP in Spain: Goals, achievements and prospects

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Analysis of English for Specific Purposes Materials: Sports Sciences and Psychology Esp Materials in the Efl Classroom

Analysis of English for Specific Purposes Materials: Sports Sciences and Psychology Esp Materials in the Efl Classroom

Multilingual Approaches to Specialized Language Pedagogy and Research: A Journal&#8217;s Perspective

Multilingualism and Specialized Languages: A Keyword-Based Approach to Research Publications

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Multilingual Approaches to Specialized Language Pedagogy and Research: A Journal’s Perspective