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Publication details [#31245]

Holliday, Adrian. 1995. Assessing language needs within an institutional context: An ethnographic approach. English for Specific Purposes 14 (2) : 115–126.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

assessment | ethnography | institutional context | language for special purposes

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0889-4906 0021-9924

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper examines the role of ethnography in carrying out an analysis of English language needs for an oil company, set against wider institutional needs, curriculum implementational factors, including resource and syllabus possibilities, and even wider social factors.