This volume presents a range of views about language, learning, and teaching in English for Specific Purposes (ESP). Links are made between these ideas and ESP course designs, instructional materials, and research projects. The aim is for readers to adopt an analytical stance toward the field to identify current perspectives in ESP and the ideas driving them.

Contents: Preface.Part I: Preliminaries. Introduction. Approach. Issues in ESP Course Design. Part II: Ideas and Options.Section A: Language. Language Systems. Language Uses. Combining Language Descriptions. Section B: Learning. Conditions for Learning. Processes of Learning. Section C: Teaching. Methodologies. Objectives in Teaching ESP. Part III: General. Synthesis.