EnglishforHotelManagement饭店管理.ppt

English for Hotel Management Lecturer: Zhou Yi ESP Introduction ESP is the abbreviation for English for Specific Purposes. It is treated as a member in dominant linguistic disciplines such as ELT ( abbreviation for English Language Teaching), Applied Linguistics, TESOL (abbreviation for Teaching English as the Second Language ) and etc. Despite such a disciplinary belonging, ESP maintains its own features which coexist with its commonality with GE (abbreviation for General English ). Since 1960’s, the unanimously accepted starting period of ESP, it has undergone a time span of nearly 50 years during which many an ESP scholar brings their particular insights to ESP. Consequently, consensus ceases on the definition of ESP. Thus we have to select several distinguished linguists’ versions on ESP definition. Definition by Tom Hutchinson Alan Waters Definition derivation Section One in Tom Hutchinson Alan Waters’ book English for Specific Purposes (2002) revolves around the definition and concept of ESP. However, in the section, there are no obvious sentences on ESP definition with a formal title like “definition of ESP or concept of ESP ”. Searching the whole section, the following expression is found to be the most definition-like summary about What is ESP. “ ESP is an approach to language teaching in which all decisions as to content and method are based on the learner’s reason for learning; it should be seen not as any particular language product but an approach to language teaching which is directed by specific and apparent for learning.” (Tom Hutchinson Alan Waters, 2002:19) From the above definition, it’s easily seen that Tom Hutchinson Alan Waters insist on the commonality between ESP and GE (General English), the role of Needs Analysis on ESP, and the teaching methodology in ESP. ESP Tree ESP Inner System According to Tom Hutchinson Alan Waters’ tree, ESP is not a single subject but a multi-facet entity. Firstly, EST, EBE and ESS are three compo