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English for Specific Purposes (ESP) provides English language instruction that aims to serve learners’ communication needs in English in a certain domain. In fact, addressing learners’ specific goals to use English in a specific area is what distinguishes ESP from English for General Purposes teaching (Hyland in English for Specific Purposes 21:385–395, 2002). While in the 1960s, it emerged as a response to communication needs in English mainly in commerce, science, and technology (Swales in A Source and Reference Book on the Development of English for Science and Technology. Prentice-Hall, New York, 1988), today, ESP encompasses a wide Range of areas including English Academic Purposes (EAP), English for Medical Purposes (EMP), English for Business Purposes (EBP), English for Legal Purposes (ELP), and English for Sociocultural Purposes (ESCP) (Belcher in English for Specific Purposes in Theory and Practice. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 2009).
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Işık-Taş, E.E., Kenny, N. (2020). Current Practices, Challenges, and Innovations in English for Specific Purposes Instruction and Research. In: Kenny, N., Işık-Taş, E., Jian, H. (eds) English for Specific Purposes Instruction and Research. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32914-3_1
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