Résumés
Cet article a pour objectif de décrire l'évolution de l’anglais de spécialité (ASP) au sein des études en langues spécialisées et de la recherche au niveau de l’enseignement supérieur en Espagne au cours des vingt dernières années. L'année 1992 est choisie comme point de départ parce qu’AELFE, l'Association des langues à objectifs spécifiques, a été fondée à Madrid à cette date. Lorsque des membres d'autres pays ont rejoint cette association, AELFE a servi de point de repère institutionnel universitaire pour le développement de l'ASP dans le cadre de la linguistique appliquée. L’ASP reflète les évolutions sociales, les changements éducatifs et les tendances linguistiques, ainsi que les innovations technologiques au sein des contextes universitaires et professionnels. L'évolution des scénarios du praticien des langues spécialisées et des situations de communication a transformé l’ASP en une pratique vivante et stimulante, quoique parfois sujette à controverses comme, par exemple, à propos de l’augmentation générale de la charge de travail de l'enseignant d’ASP. Différentes directions de travail et de recherche ont été adoptées dans les universités espagnoles depuis la création d’AELFE jusqu'à l'accord de Bologne. L'examen de ces variables est effectué à la lumière de quelques résultats quantitatifs et qualitatifs.
This paper aims to describe the development of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) as specialised language study and research at tertiary level in Spain over the past twenty years. The year 1992 is chosen as a starting point because AELFE, the Association of Languages for Specific Purposes, was founded in Madrid at the time. As more members from other countries have joined in, this Association has served as an academic landmark for the development of ESP within the umbrella of applied linguistics. ESP has reflected the social changes, educational shifts, linguistic trends, and technological innovations involved in academic and professional contexts. The evolution of the specialised language practitioner’s scenarios and communicative situations has turned ESP into a lively and stimulating action, though not lacking in controversy, e.g., a general increase in the ESP teacher’s workload. Different lines of work and research have been followed from the inception of AELFE until the implementation of the Bologna agreement in our universities. The examination of such variables is conducted in the light of some quantitative and qualitative findings.
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Plan
Introduction
1. The past of ESP in Spain: 1980-2002
1.1. Administrative perspectives
1.2. Teaching conditions and methods
1.3. Research dissemination
2. The present of ESP: 2003-2012
2.1. Administrative perspectives
2.2. Teaching conditions and methods
2.3. Research dissemination
3. Conclusions and the future of ESP in Spain
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English for Specific Purposes (ESP) studies have truly soared institutionally in Spain since the foundation of AELFE, the Association of Languages for Specific Purposes, in 1992. This Association was founded in Madrid at the time, but a previous decade of growing interest and approaches in English for academic and professional purposes had set the scene for the advent of significant ESP developments. The shift that a growing number of faculties and researchers made from literature studies to applied linguistics also contributed to the emerging new context in many universities. In the teaching of English in higher education, this change was especially visible in business and scientific-technical English. In translation studies, the focus on specialised terminology also influenced the spread of ESP in Spain (e.g., bilingual business and law dictionaries).
In the 1990s, AELFE was a Spanish association that included cooperation with Portuguese faculty by holding an annual Lus...
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Guadalupe Aguado de Cea et Alejandro Curado Fuentes, « ESP in Spain: Goals, achievements and prospects », ASp [En ligne], 62 | 2012, mis en ligne le 15 novembre 2015, consulté le 23 mai 2013. URL : http://asp.revues.org/3136 ; DOI : 10.4000/asp.3136
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Auteurs
Guadalupe Aguado de Cea is a Senior Lecturer at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. She is MSc in Translation by Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and she received her PhD in English Philology by UCM. Her current research activities include, among others: English for Specific Purposes, Terminology and Natural Language Processing, in which she has participated in different projects concerning terminology, ontologies and multilingualism. She is the President of the Committee on Terminology, AEN-CTN-191, AENOR, and the representative for Spain at the ISO TC 37. lupe@fi.upm.es
Alejandro Curado Fuentes is a Senior Lecturer at University of Extremadura, Spain. His teaching includes English for Specific Purposes (ESP) at the College of Business and Administration and Polytechnic School, as well as Applied Linguistics at the College of Humanities. His research focuses on corpus linguistics and ESP, as well as ICT and language learning. acurado@unex.es
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