The evolution or development of ESP.

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Mind map on the evolution or development of ESP in recent years.
Dago Nestor Ropain Martinez
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The evolution or development of ESP.
  1. (Robert Burns)
    1. Since its inception in the 1960s, ESP has experienced three main stages of development.
      1. Now it is in a fourth phase with a fifth phase that begins to emerge.
        1. Swales de hecho usa el desarrollo de EST para ilustrar el desarrollo de ESP en general:
    2. The concept of special language: analysis of records.
      1. In fact, as Ewer and Latorre's curriculum shows, the analysis of records revealed that there was very little that was distinctive in the grammar of scientific English sentences beyond a tendency to favor particular forms such as simple present tense, the passive voice and the nominal compounds.
        1. Although there was an academic interest in the nature of English records despite, the main reason behind the analysis of records such as Ewer and Latorre was the pedagogical of making the ESP course more relevant to the needs of the students.
          1. The objective was to produce a curriculum that gave high priority to the forms of language that students would find in their science studies and, in turn, would give low priority to the forms they would not fulfill.
      2. Beyond prayer: rhetorical or discourse analysis.
        1. While, in the first stage of its development, ESP had focused on language at the level of the sentence, the second phase of development shifted attention to the level above the sentence, since ESP was closely involved in the field Emerging discourse or rhetorical analysis.
          1. he analysis of records had focused on the grammar of sentences, but now the focus was on understanding how sentences were combined in the discourse to produce meaning
        2. What is the ESP?
          1. As in stage I, in this approach there was a more or less implicit assumption that the rhetorical patterns of the text organization differed significantly between the specialized areas of use: the rhetorical structure of the scientific texts was considered different from that of the texts commercial, for example.
            1. Since the purpose of an ESP course is to allow students to function properly in an objective situation, that is, the situation in which students will use the language they are learning, then the design process of the ESP course should proceed by first identifying the objective situation and then carry out a rigorous analysis of the linguistic characteristics of that situation.
              1. The most complete explanation of the analysis of the objective situation is the system established by John Munby in Communicative Syllabus Design.
                1. The analysis stage of the objective situation marked a certain age of majority for ESP.
          2. Skills and strategies.
            1. We noticed that in the first two stages of the development of ESP all the analysis had been of the superficial forms of language.
              1. Most of the work in the area of skills and strategies, however, has been done near the ground in schemes such as the National ESP Project in Brazil and the ESP Project of the University of Malaya.
                1. The main idea behind the skills-centered approach is that, underlying all use of language, there are common processes of reasoning and interpretation that, regardless of surface forms, allow us to extract the meaning of speech.
            2. An approach focused on learning.
              1. In sketching the origins of ESP, we identify three forces, which we could characterize as need, new ideas about language and new ideas about learning.
                1. A truly valid approach to ESP should be based on an understanding of language learning processes.
                  1. It is expected that the importance and implications of the distinction we have made between language use and language learning will be clarified as we move forward in the following chapters.
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