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Publication details [#48030]
Fortanet-Gómez, Inmaculada and Christine A. Räisänen, eds. 2008. ESP in European Higher Education. Integrating language and content. (AILA Applied Linguistics Series 4). John Benjamins. vi+285 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
The Bologna Reform has been implemented in a large part of the European Union and it is time to take a short pause to reflect over some of the lessons learned up to now. The aim of this volume is to share experiences and reflections on English for Specific Purposes pedagogy in Western European higher education. Taking as a starting point the development of the EU policies during the past couple of decades and their national implementations, the papers in this volume provide various perspectives, both theoretical and practical, on the ways in which the reform has been implemented and its effects on the teaching of ESP. Experiences of developing programmes and courses incorporating Content and Language Integrated Learning and Autonomous and Lifelong Learning are described, as well as Problem-Based Learning and Process-Genre Pedagogies. The volume also includes papers on the crucial, but often neglected issue of teacher support in meeting the challenges of teaching content through the medium of English.
Articles in this volume
Krausse, Sylvana. On the role of student research in the ESP classroom: A call for sustainable language skills.
Fortanet-Gómez, Inmaculada and Christine A. Räisänen. The state of ESP teaching and learning in Western European higher education after Bologna. 11–51
Wilkinson, Robert. Locating the ESP space in problem-based learning: English-medium degree programmes from a post-Bologna perspective. 55–73
Dressen-Hammouda, Dacia. Aligning EAP writing pedagogies across European universities: A case study from France. 75–96
Lankamp, R.E. Curriculum change as a result of the introduction of the masters program: Designing and implementing a European online thesis training course. 97–115
Palmer-Silveira, Juan Carlos and Miguel F. Ruiz-Garrido. Content learning in business communication: A teaching experience within the new European framework. 147–164
Planken, Brigitte and Catherine Nickerson. Business English and the Bologna Declaration in the Netherlands: Integrating business communication practice, content and research. 165–179
Gattoni, Colette. Business is booming: Rethinking business presentations in response to the Bologna Reforms. 181–197
Solly, Martin. Implementing the Bologna process in Italy: A distinctive approach to language learning in domain-specific contexts. 199–211