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This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and its pedagogical implications. Bringing together contributions from diverse tertiary contexts, it showcases the vitality of ESP studies in the twenty-first century.
The volume highlights flourishing research themes and methodological innovations in ESP, while also engaging with closely related fields such as English for Academic Purposes and Professional English. Organized into three parts, it examines:
Established research areas revisited from fresh perspectives,
The integration and adaptation of well-known methodologies, and
New directions that expand the horizons of ESP inquiry.
Offering a state-of-the-art account of research and practice, the book illustrates how ESP scholarship continues to evolve and inform pedagogy worldwide. It will be of particular interest to graduate students, researchers, and practitioners seeking insights into both established and emerging trajectories within the field.
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Elvan Eda Işık
is an associate professor at the Department of Foreign Language Education at Middle East Technical University (METU), Türkiye. She received her PhD from METU and she was a visiting scholar at the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham, UK. Her research interests are discourse analysis, corpus linguistics and applied linguistics for TESOL. Her research articles were published in international journals such as
English for Specific Purposes, Journal of English for Academic Purposes
and
Lingua
and she has co-edited the book (with Kenny, N. & Jiang, H.)
English for Specific Purposes Instruction and Research: Current Practices, Challenges and Innovations
, (2020, Palgrave Macmillan).
Darryl Hocking
is an associate professor in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. His primary research areas are discourse, genre, and corpus analysis, with a particular focus on the interactional genres and communicative practices in visual art settings and their impact on creative activity. His recent books include
Communicating Creativity: The Discursive Facilitation of Creative Activity in Arts
(2018),
The Impact of Everyday Language Change on the Practices of Visual Artists
(2022), and the edited volume
The Language of Art and Artists
(2025).
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and its pedagogical implications. Bringing together contributions from diverse tertiary contexts, it showcases the vitality of ESP studies in the twenty-first century.
The volume highlights flourishing research themes and methodological innovations in ESP, while also engaging with closely related fields such as English for Academic Purposes and Professional English. Organized into three parts, it examines:
• Established research areas revisited from fresh perspectives,
• The integration and adaptation of well-known methodologies, and
• New directions that expand the horizons of ESP inquiry.
Offering a state-of-the-art account of research and practice, the book illustrates how ESP scholarship continues to evolve and inform pedagogy worldwide. It will be of particular interest to graduate students, researchers, and practitioners seeking insights into both established and emerging trajectories within the field.
