Key Issues in English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education (eBook)

Introduction.- Recent developments in ESP/EAP/EMI contexts in the world, Yasemin Kırkgöz & Kenan Dikilitaş.- PART I Materials design and development in ESP.- Materials and lesson design: the beliefs and practices of experienced ESP teachers, Helen Baştürkmen & Ana Bocanegra Valle.- Innovative ESP teaching practices and materials development, Fredricka L. Stoller & Marin S. Robinson.- Using a corpus-based approach to select medical vocabulary for an ESP course: The case for high frequency vocabulary, Betsy Quero & Averil Coxhead.- Selecting Corpus-based Grammatical Structures for ESP/EAP Materials, Hossein Farhady & Kobra Tavassoli & Fariba Haghighi.- PART II ESP Teacher Development.- Lesson study: a collaborative vehicle for professional learning and practice development of ESP teachers in high education, Julie Norton.- The Process behind RA Introduction Writing among Turkish Arts and Science Scholars, Suresh Canagarajah & Demet Yaylı.- Practitioner Research as a Way of Understanding my Work: Making Sense of Graduates’ Language Use, Tuula Lehtonen.- Expanding Possibilities for ESP Practitioners Through Interdisciplinary Team Teaching, Tim Stewart.- Perceptions of Students, Teachers and Graduates about Civil Aviation Cabin Services ESP Program: An Exploratory Study in Turkey, Enisa Mede & Derin Atay & Nergis Koparan.- PART III Curricular Issues in ESP.- Introducing Innovation into an ESP Program:  Aviation English for Cadets, Mustafa Er & Yasemin Kırkgöz.- From EFL to EMI: Hydrid practices in English as a Medium of Instruction in Japanese tertiary contexts, Naoki Fujimoto-Adamson & John Adamson.- Fostering Active Learner Involvement in ESP classes, Nemira Mačianskienė  & lma Bijeikienė.- Are We Really Teaching English for Specific Purposes, or Basic English Skills? The Cases of Turkey and Latvia, Servet Çelik, Anna Stavicka, & Indra Odina.- Listening Comprehension Strategies of EMI Students in Turkey, Adem Soruç, Asiye Dinler, Carol Griffiths.- PART IV ESP, CLIL and EMI.- ESP/EAP for University Programs outside Target Language Communities, John O'Dwyer & Hilal Atlı.- The C of Cognition in CLIL Teacher Education: some insights from classroom based research, Isabel Alonso Belmonte & María Fernández Agüero.- The changing roles of EMI academics and English language specialists, Julie Dearden.- Quality Assurance of ESP Programs in the EMI Context: A case study of a private university in Turkey, Donald Staub