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IDEAS AND OPTIONS IN ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2008

Christine B. Feak
Christine B. Feak
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University of Michigan
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IDEAS AND OPTIONS IN ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES.Helen Basturkmen. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2006. Pp. xi + 186. $19.95 paper.

Various approaches to teaching English for specific purposes (ESP) are examined in this volume, with a view toward encouraging readers to take a critical stance. The work aims to fill a gap in the existing ESP literature, which Basturkmen argues has “tended to focus on practical issues” rather than on “ideas of learning languages for specific purposes” (p. 5). Another goal is to investigate whether “ESP has been a force for accommodation” (p. 6), serving the interests of discourse communities rather than ESP learners themselves.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 104 - 105
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© 2008 Cambridge University Press

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