英文读书报告

2021年1月25日发(作者：无车日)


对外经济贸易大学英语学院


研究生读书报告




特殊用途英语研究新方向浅读


The reading of the
New Directions in
English for Specific Purposes Research





姓

名

高晓倩

学

号
2
专

业

外国语言及应用语言学

方

向

跨文化商务交际

导

师

史兴松

The reading of the
New Directions in English for Specific Purposes
Research

1 Introduction


1.1

Background
ESP (English for Specific Purpose) was born in English-speaking countries in 1960s.
The emergence and development
of ESP can be summarized as the following three
reasons: English became the common language for economy, science and cultural; the
focus
of
linguistics
transferred
from
the
characteristics
of
language
features
to
the
practical
applies
of
language;
the
recognition
of
learners
’

central
role
from
educational psychology. Recently, developments in areas including demand analysis,
genre
analysis,
discourse
analysis
and
the
rhetoric
have
pushed
forward
the
development
of
ESP.
ESP
teaching
focuses
on
the
reasons
for
learners
to
learn
a
language. (Ma, 2010) Thus demand analysis becomes an important direction in ESP
research. Highly structuralized and having clear communication goal
and target and
specific topic, ESP thus has different genres from others and genre analysis becomes
important for ESP research. (Yang, 2006) So do discourse analysis and the rhetoric.
Different schools like those mentioned above, began to publish their work and in this
background, Michigan University published this book in 2011.

1.2

About the Author
All of the three editors Diane Belcher, Ann M. Johns and Brian Paltridge were once
the
chief
editor
of
English
for
Specific
Purposes:
An
International
Journal

and
internationally famous experts in the research of ESP. Diane Belcher is a professor in
Georgia State University. Brian Paltridge is a professor in the University of Sydney.
This book was compiled by the team work among the three editors and several ESP
researchers. John Swales, who established genre theory, wrote the conclusions for this
book.


2

Summary of the Book
This book includes eleven chapters and the editors divided the book into two parts:
ESP research direction and ESP research approaches. The first is from chapter one to
five.
The
first
chapter
by
Ken
Hyland
proved
the
importance
to
carry
out
ESP
teaching. The second chapter by Brian Paltridge and Wei Wang discussed discourse
features of news report and revealed the ideological difference of different media on
the same news. The third chapter by An Cheng pointed out that five factors including
course
background,
teaching
target,
teaching
material
choosing
and
classroom
activities,
teaching
method
and
homework
assessment
not
only
influence
ESP
teaching,
but
also
is
an important
part
in
classroom
researches
for
ESP.
The
fourth
chapter
was
wrote
by
Diane
Belcher
and
Lauren
Lukkarila
and
mainly
told
that
in
demand analysis, the subjective attitude of learners should be fully considered to have
a
good
ESP
teaching
effect.
The
fifth
chapter
by
Anna
Mauranen
introduced
the
establishing process and the principle of the first spoken-English corpus with English
as the world academic lingua franca. The second part is from six to eleven. The first
two chapters focused on the use of genre analysis. John Flowerdew reviewed the three
schools
of
genre
analysis
theory
and
explained
how
to
combine
these
tree
theories
together.
Christine
Tardy
pointed
out
that
multi-dimension
genre
analysis
is
more
favorable
to
dig
up
the
dynamic,
situational
and
intertextual
features
of
the
text.
Chapter eight and nine discussed the use of critical ethnography in ESP. In chapter ten,
Lynne
Flowerdew
discussed
the
issues
of
corpus
and
reflected
the
influence
of
bottom-up and top-down method to
the
analysis.
The last
chapter discussed how to
improve the reliability and effect of the whole research by combining the corpus with
critical discourse analysis.
Even
though
the
chapters
of
this
book
were
all
from
different
writers,
all
of
them
pointed out
the connection between chapters.
Moreover, the patterns of
all chapters
were
almost
the
same.
Thus,
every
chapter
reviewed
the
theories
and
research
findings, allowing the readers find the position of each chapter
’
s topic in the ESP area
and the accurate structure of each chapter make it better for researchers to be familiar
with academic standard and carry out researches.

3

Analysis
，
Evaluation & Critique
The distinction of this book is its introduction of not only the research directions in
ESP but also the research approaches. Books such as
The Theory and Application in
English
for
Specific
Purpose
edited
by
Huang
Ping
introduced
only
one
research
direction, the teaching of ESP, and didn
’
t involve any research approach for readers.
Thus
The
New
Directions
in
English
for
Specific
Purposes
Research
is
easier
for
readers to read and grasp the whole picture of ESP researches. Presently, most ESP