Publication details
Getting the best of all worlds in classroom materials for tertiary ESP
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Changing media - changing schools? |
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| Web | https://iartemblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/iartem_lisbon_proceedings_high_res.pdf |
| Keywords | English for specific purpose; syllabus de-sign; language identity; digital media; scaffolding |
| Description | In this paper the author describes the background, principles and pitfalls of material design for Eng-lish for Specific Purpose (ESP) courses. Foreign lan-guage teaching in the “post-method era” strives for an ambitious format that reflects current trends of autonomous learning, collaborative learning, scaf-folding and CLIL, develops creativity and critical thinking while combining traditional and new me-dia. Building on these approaches and incorporating their elements into ESP materials effectively and in a purposeful manner presents a daunting task to the authors. ESP at tertiary level is a domain where the identities of learners (both their language and aca-demic identities) are a powerful instrument that has to be taken into account and developed to maximise learning. The aim of this paper is to offer an insight into the background, starting points and elements of material design in tertiary ESP which draws on re-search into identity in language learning. |