Material Thoughts: ESP and Culture  

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Barron, Colin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English for Specific Purposes (Full Text) vol. 10 no. 3 (1991), page 173-188.
Fulltext: 10_03_Barron.pdf (1.11MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ESP/10 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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ESP has so far totally ignored the traditional cultures of students. A review of all the articles that have appeared in English for Specific Purposes since its inception ten years ago found none that considers the students' culture. There are several reasons for this trend, including general English teaching's fear and embarrassment in introducing culture into the classroom and a widely held view that science and technology are culturally neutral and a secondary culture system. Whereas major elements of the teaching of technology in the West stress its abstract and instrumental aspects, in nonliterate societies such as those in Papua New Guinea (PNG) technology is concrete and integrative. Artefacts are the technological texts of PNG societies, with social, economic, and religious meanings. ESP's role of effecting a smooth transition from textualisation in PNG societies to textualisation in English requires more than a linguistic input. ESP in this situation should break away from its parasitic role and look outwards to include the students' culture. In so doing it may satisfy the Piagetian notions of assimilation and accommodation as well as the expectations and aspirations of the students.

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