ESP: The Textbook Problem  

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Swales, John

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English for Specific Purposes (Full Text) vol. 1 no. 1 (1980), page 11-24.
Fulltext: 01_01_Swales.pdf (1.09MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ESP/1 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Although ESP textbooks have been purchased in considerable quantities, they have been surprisingly little used. Thus, the ESP textbook problem is seen as being essentially one of educational failure. The major cause of this failure could lie either in the product (the textbook) or in the primary user (the ESP practitioner), The problem as posed thus raises at least two inter-related issues: what should be the purpose and role of ESP textbooks, and what is properly involved in being an ESP professional? However, our approach to these issues is obscured by some of the facts of ESP history, such as market forces in publishing, the status of the ESP practitioner. textbook analysis and trends in research and development, all of which have contributed to the abuse and disuse of textbooks. However. it is claimed that a reconsideration of the role and structure of ESP textbooks would allow them a restricted but legitimate place in ESP work. This proposal is then illustrated with an example from English for Academic Legal Purposes.

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