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标题：ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON COURSE DESIGN
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作者：JOANNA KIC-DRGAS
期刊名称：ESP Today
电子版ISSN：2334-9050
出版年度：2019
卷号：7
期号：2
页码：288-293
语种：English
出版社：Faculty of Economics University of Belgrade
摘要：The knowledge of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is nowadays considered to be almost an obligatory requirement for entrance into a multilingual professional environment,which affects the demand for ESP courses. Foreign language teachers still have many doubts about how to design efficient,need-tailored and learneroriented ESP courses. The source of these uncertainties is the lack of a practical framework for class design which could offer a background for developing courses, as well as the inability to respond to the needs and motivations of diverse learners. Nonetheless,the field of course design has been considered to be the most prominent area of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching since the early 1960s (Laurence,2018;Paltridge & Starfield,2012;Upton,2012). Despite the fact that formulating one universal design for ESP courses is not possible due to variable characteristics of individuals participating in such courses,Lindy Woodrow has taken on a very ambitious task of creating an introduction to the theory and practice of ESP course design based on authentic examples of various courses,and reflecting in detail the process of course development from needs analysis to final assessment. Woodrow clearly highlights that the aim of the book is “to enable readers to have a good understanding of ESP and be able to design an ESP course. This is achieved by using a mixture of theory,research,reflection, tasks and resources” (p. 1).