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Strevens and McIntosh wrote the book “the linguistic Sciences and Language teaching”
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Howatt argues that the need for commercial English, and other people led to a focus on business English in early and in the actual textbooks on “commercial English”
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in the late 1970 and early 1980 there was a periods of consolidation in ESP
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From the mid-1970’s into the 1980’s the focus switched more and more to spoken interaction based first on a grammatical and then gradually a more functional construct. Material were based on functions such Greetings, making deductions
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In 1988 Ewer and Hughes- Daves reprinted a book focused on the grammar and vocabulary of scientific and technical English using what Swales said in 1971-1972
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One landmark in the development of Business English materials was “The Bellcrest File”, a video based course book published en
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Jordan and Mackay concentrated to establish the need and credentials for ESP work and many articles
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Foley provides concrete evidence for the validity of the ESP approach
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A new video curse, Visitor: the Language of Presentations published by Howe en 1984, précised the language of presentations but didn’t not exploit features such body language
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The influence is not all in one direction ESP research is beginning to have its influence in other disciplines
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ESP was given its initial impetus by work in the area of register analysis which looked at the grammar of scientific and technical writing, and pointed to certains areas of priority for teaching and materials production
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Bates and Dudley Evan’s editions are examples or earlier approaches to ESP
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ESP is capable of drawing on disciplines outside Applied Linguistics “English for Specific Purposes"
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Jhons and Dudley-Evans Presents a view of the state ESP in the middle of the 1900’s
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Tom and Alan's present their book it has extensive statements about ESP. The journal English for Specific Purposes ranged from to analysis to classroom descriptions
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The book “Effective Presentations” published by Comfort and Utley en 1995 exploit features such a boy language
