INTRODUCTION
If you were asked to identify the single most important area of growth in language teaching and research in the last decade or so you would probably find it hard to look further than LSP. Languages for Specific Purposes is an approach to language education based on identifying the specific language...
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If you were asked to identify the single most important area of growth in language teaching and research in the last decade or so you would probably find it hard to look further than LSP. Languages for Specific Purposes is an approach to language education based on identifying the specific language features, discourse practices, and communicative skills of target groups, while recognizing the subject-matter needs and expertise of learners (Hyland, 2018). It is an area of endeavour which sees itself as sensitive to contexts of discourse and action, and which uses this to develop research-based pedagogies to assist academic study, occupational interaction and professional communication skills. It is this distinctive focus on the ways language is used in particular settings and specific groups which is its strength, and which has led us to collate this special issue of STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEȘ-BOLYAI. Series PHILOLOGIA.
LSP, whether focusing on academic or professional contexts of communication, attempts to discover the key rhetorical structures, language relationships and lexical patterns of target texts by exploring how language is used in specific contexts. It then seeks to make these salient to students, encouraging them to engage analytically with target discourses to develop a critical understanding of group communication. While important in itself, this pedagogically driven project is even more crucial today with growing numbers of second language (L2) students seeking to cope with new and unfamiliar disciplines, genres and topics at university and in the workplace.
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| spelling | doaj-art-01ebaa86727d4fbe87861e8fb820e9c02024-12-26T10:57:30ZdeuCluj University PressStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia1220-04842065-96522024-12-01694INTRODUCTIONKen HYLAND0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4727-8355Octavia-Raluca ZGLOBIU-SANDU1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6977-5408Andrada FĂTU-TUTOVEANU2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1827-7318University of East Anglia, k.hyland@uea.ac.ukFaculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University Department of Foreign Specialised Languages, octavia.zglobiu@ubbcluj.roBabeş-Bolyai University, andrada.pintilescu@ubbcluj.ro If you were asked to identify the single most important area of growth in language teaching and research in the last decade or so you would probably find it hard to look further than LSP. Languages for Specific Purposes is an approach to language education based on identifying the specific language features, discourse practices, and communicative skills of target groups, while recognizing the subject-matter needs and expertise of learners (Hyland, 2018). It is an area of endeavour which sees itself as sensitive to contexts of discourse and action, and which uses this to develop research-based pedagogies to assist academic study, occupational interaction and professional communication skills. It is this distinctive focus on the ways language is used in particular settings and specific groups which is its strength, and which has led us to collate this special issue of STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEȘ-BOLYAI. Series PHILOLOGIA. LSP, whether focusing on academic or professional contexts of communication, attempts to discover the key rhetorical structures, language relationships and lexical patterns of target texts by exploring how language is used in specific contexts. It then seeks to make these salient to students, encouraging them to engage analytically with target discourses to develop a critical understanding of group communication. While important in itself, this pedagogically driven project is even more crucial today with growing numbers of second language (L2) students seeking to cope with new and unfamiliar disciplines, genres and topics at university and in the workplace. https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilologia/article/view/8529 |
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