Helping our ESP students to get access to the productive vocabulary they need

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概要

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• Over the last decade and half some ESP practitioners have made a concerted effort to carve out a distinctive niche for ESP in the area of domain-specific vocabulary. This paper argues implicitly that, while domain-specific words and domain-specific lexical behavior have some significance for ESP materials design, ESP practitioners might reap better returns on their study time if they take into account the significant new developments in EFL vocabulary theory, research and publication which are taking place in English Language Teaching (ELT) as a whole. Rather more explicitly, the paper welcomes the fact that these new developments all point in the direction of a much greater and more systematic role for vocabulary in the syllabus and in the classroom, but points out that in many ESP contexts there are time and other constraints which threaten to vitiate any attempt to adopt such an enhanced focus on vocabulary.The author then shows how one appropriate solution which has been developed in an ESP context at the International University of Japan (IUJ) - the local dictionary - can help to relax the constraints without departing from the general principles suggested by the latest theory and research.

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著者

• Smith Richard

  International Management Faculty International University Of Japan

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