Handbook of English for Specific Purposes

SUE STARFIELD is Emeritus Professor in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales. Her books include Thesis and Dissertation Writing in a Second Language: A Handbook for Students and Their Supervisors and Change and Stability in Thesis and Dissertation Writing: The Evolution of an Academic Genre. She is Editor Emeritus of the journal English for Specific Purposes and the founding Co-Editor of the Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes. CHRISTOPH A. HAFNER is Professor in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. He is President of the Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association and past President of the Hong Kong Association for Applied Linguistics. He has published widely on English for specific purposes, digital literacies, and language learning and technology. His latest book is Understanding Digital Literacies: A Practical Introduction.

• Author Biographies ixAcknowledgments xviiOverview of the Handbook 11 English for Specific Purposes Research: An Historical Overview 7Vijay K. BhatiaPart I ESP and Language Skills 272 ESP and Speaking 31Christine B. Feak and Clarice S.C. Chan3 ESP and Listening: Theory, Technology, and Multimodality 53Christine C. M. Goh and Jean C. P. Lee4 ESP and Reading 73Alan Hirvela5 ESP and Writing 89Ken Hyland6 Vocabulary and English for Specific Purposes 107Averil CoxheadPart II ESP and Pedagogy 1257 Needs Analysis and Curriculum Development in ESP 129Lynne Flowerdew8 Genre and ESP 149An Cheng9 English Medium Instruction and English for Specific Purposes 167Diane Pecorari and Hans Malmström10 ESP and Assessment 185Dan Douglas11 Materials Development and English for Specific Purposes 205Nigel Harwood12 ESP Teacher Development 225Helen BasturkmenPart III Areas of ESP Research 24313 English for Academic Purposes 247Maggie Charles14 English for Science and Technology 265Jean Parkinson15 English in the Workplace 285Meredith Marra16 Business English 305Zuocheng Zhang17 Legal English: Past, Present and Future 323Jill Northcott18 English for Medical Purposes 343Gibson Ferguson19 English for Nursing 363Susan Bosher20 Call Center Communication 383Eric Friginal21 Thesis and Dissertation Writing 403Paul Thompson22 English for Research Publication Purposes 421John Flowerdew23 Digital Genres and Practices in English for Specific Purposes 445Carmen Pérez-LlantadaPart IV Research Perspectives and Methodologies in ESP Research 46524 ESP and Corpus Studies 469Hilary Nesi25 ESP and Intercultural Rhetoric 487William Rozycki and Ulla Connor26 English for Specific Purposes and English as a Lingua Franca 505Catherine Nickerson27 Global Englishes, Translanguaging, and ESP 525Fan Fang and Will Baker28 Critical Perspectives on ESP 543Sue Starfield29 Gender and Race in ESP Research 563Ryuko Kubota30 Identity and ESP 583Ron Darvin and Yue Zhang31 Ethnography in ESP 599Dacia Dressen-Hammouda32 Multimodality and ESP Research 619Christoph A. Hafner33 The Future of ESP Research: Resources for Access and Agency 641Diane D. BelcherIndex 659