Approaches to Teaching Subject Content

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Approaches to Teaching Subject Content

Original language description

The author has in this article summarized the characteristic features of teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) directing her attention to differences between ESP teachers and General English teachers and focusing more on methodological aspects ofteaching a language of profession than on linguistic features of academic discourse and style. In contrast with General English, teaching English for Specific Purposes is designed to meet specific needs of the learners, it is goal-directed, it reflects the underlying concepts and activities of the disciplines or professions it serves. For this reason, the methodology appropriate to ESP is different from that appropriate to English language teaching; it is characterized by the shift of emphasis from thelanguage system as end in itself to the successful use of that system in context (the communicative approach to teaching). Required specificity of texts and tasks make language teachers obtain some subject knowledge of their learners and

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

AI - Linguistics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

English Studies, Department of Foreign Languages

ISBN

978-80-214-4837-7

Number of pages of the result

10

Pages from-to

1-10

Number of pages of the book

116

Publisher name

VUTIUM

Place of publication

Brno

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