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Grammar and Technical English
John Lackrom, Larry Selinker, and Louis Trimble began to dominate the field. EST grammar and the authors’ rhetorical purposes in texts were central, a connection that continues to be the focus of much of the ESP discourse analysis. In addition, they wrote Grammar and Technical English. -
Tarone
The most famous of the studies in this period is found in Tarone, which appeared in the first volume of what was then called The ESP Journal, established by Grace Burkhart at the American University in Washington, DC and was reprinted, with commentary, in Episodes in ESP. -
Aspects of Article Introductions
A second historical period in ESP is bounded by the work of Swales, whose seminal "Aspects of Article Introductions", first appeared in the United Kingdom. -
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Especial issues of ESPJ
During this period, special issues of the journal were devoted to teacher training in 1983 in honor of Jack Ewer; in 1984 to Vocational ESP by JoAnn Crandall. In 1987, to interlanguage by Larry Selinker, and to the training of international teaching assistants in 1989 by Richard Young. -
ESPJ
During these early years of ESPJ publication appeared a considerable number of articles on needs assessment, the core of ESP practitioner work; though as West (1984) showed in her discussion of vocational ESL. -
Adams-Smith
He explored the problems that L2 speakers may have with distinguishing between objective statements of fact and author-marked observations in written texts. -
Jacobson
Jacobson concentrated upon the strategic rather than grammatical or discourse competence needs of students in a physics lab. -
Doubshaq
Doushaq published a piece of stylistic errors made among Arab students of English for academic purposes (EAP). -
Horowitz
He classified essay examination prompts in research that has had broad implications for future work. -
ESPJ editors
ESP leaders were making an effort to expand the movement’s horizons. The editors of ESPJ , John Swales and Ann Johns expressed their concerns that ESP continued to be limited and was therefore considered irrelevant by most of the TESOL community. -
English for Science and Technology
In World War II the central focus of ESP research was English for
science and technology (EST) in academic contexts. -
Tarantino
Tarantino used a face-to-face questionnaire interview to measure the macro and micro level needs of 53 EST researchers and students. -
Morrow
Morrow contrasted the use of conjuncts in two genres: business news stories and academic journal articles. -
Braine
Braine examined students’ writing assignments in
two undergraduate courses in science and technology. -
Genre Analysis
The approach became recognized when it appeared in augmented form in Genre Analysis, initiating a research boom. -
Adamson
Adamson employed a case study approach to 15 ESL
students, investigating both the effective and ineffective strategies that were applied to academic classrooms, concluding that English for academic purposes is best taught along with academic content. -
Tedick
Tedick studied the impact of students’ subjective knowledge on their writing performance. -
French and Spanish Medical English research
Salager-Meyer’s contrasts between metaphors in French and Spanish Medical English research articles appeared in ESPJ. -
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Modern age in ESP
During this period, two new international journals appeared, both of which included research articles that might have been published in ESPJ. -
Journal of Second Language Writing
The Journal of Second Language Writing (JSLW ) was founded in by Ilona Leki and Tony Silva. Many of its early articles focussed on writing processes or student errors, topics that have not been central to ESP research. -
Journal of English for Academic Purposes
Responding to the overwhelming number of articles in ESPJ and elsewhere on academic texts, students, and contexts, Liz Hamp-Lyons and Ken Hyland established the Journal of English for Academic Purposes (JEAP).