Flora of North America Editorial Committee; Mary E. Barkworth; Kathleen M. Capels; Sandy Long; Laurel K. Anderton Oxford University Press Inc (2006) Kovakantinen kirja
In the United States today there is lively discussion, both among educators and employers, about the best way to prepare students with high-level language and cross-cultural communication proficiency that will serve them both professionally and personally in the global environment of the twenty-first century. At the same time, courses in business language and medical language have become more popular among students. Language for Specific Purposes (LSP), which encompasses these kinds of courses, responds to this discussion and provides curricular models for language programs that build practical language skills specific to a profession or field. Contributions in the book reinforce those models with national survey results, demonstrating the demand for and benefits of LSP instruction. With ten original research-based chapters, this volume will be of interest to high school and university language educators, program directors, linguists, and anyone looking to design LSP courses or programs in any world language.
Contributions by: Mary K. Long, Lourdes Sanchez-Lopez, Mary K. Long, Barbara A. Lafford, Mary Risner, Melissa Swarr, Cristin Bleess, Janet Graham, Carmen King Ramírez, Leann Derby, Jean W. LeLoup, James Rasmussen, Ismênia Sales de Souza, Robert A. Quinn, Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker, Anthony Becker, El-Hussein Ali, Annie Abbott, Mary K. Long, Mary Jill Brody, Alison Hicks
