Dans la présentation d’un numéro de la revue Langages paru en 2007, consacré aux origines de la terminologie contemporaine, et dirigé par deux des éditeurs du présent ouvrage, Dan Savatovsky et Candel regrettaient la méconnaissance en France de l’œuvre de...
]]>Wherever legal language is used, it tends to be conservative, and the Common Law reliance on precedent may well make legal English particularly prone to the preservation of arch...
]]>The 267-page book is divided into three parts. Part 1, entitled “Essential aspects of English for specific purposes”, consists of eight chapters and covers such elements in ESP and course design as needs analysis, language and skills, vocabulary, teaching and learning ESP, technology and ...
]]>Marie-Hélène Fries, Université Grenoble-Alpes
Could the notion of multimodal literacy inspire teaching in the context of English for specific purposes (ESP)? In science and technology at least, multimodality plays an essential role, as noted by Sionis in this journal, when commenting on presentation design for a scientific conference on mechanical engineering:
Their verbal discourse was created and organised to develop and comment on non-verbal materials and not the other way round. Non-verbal materials were definitely not used to ‘illustrate’ a predominantly verbal type of communication; they were the very subject and the main mode of communication (Sionis 1997: 340).
This can be explained by the fact that researchers’ work in these domains is mostly based on experiments or on models, both requiring to be expressed in graphs or images as well as in words. On the other hand, the development of the World Wide Web and multimedia technologies have given a crucial importance to i...
]]>Caroline Rossi, université Grenoble Alpes
While corpora have been used extensively in translator training for a few decades (Beeby et al. 2009; Zanettin et al. 2013), applications to the English for specific purposes (ESP) classroom have remained relatively scarce. However, a recent meta-analysis into “the effectiveness of using the tools and techniques of corpus linguistics for L2 learning or use” (Boulton & Cobb 2017) has reported effective use of corpora with learners of a foreign language for both general and specific purposes, especially in writing instruction (see also Chen & Flowerdew 2018). In a recent book, Charles and Frankenberg-Garcia (2021) present seven studies which focus on the preparation, exploitation and analysis of corpora for ESP writing instruction.
Against this background, Julie McAllister's contribution appears as both original and extremely useful. The originality lies in the course's situation within the French academic context – a rare occurrence ind...
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