Linde López and Crespo Jiménez, eds. 2010. Professional English in the European Context: The EHEA Challenge. Bern: Peter Lang

Abstract

This book came to light in the year just when, following the Bologna Process agenda, the new European Higher Education Area (EHEA) was officially launched in the universities in Europe. It was the Bologna Declaration, back in 1999 that set in motion a number of reforms to make Higher Education in Europe more competitive, comparable and coherent. For more than a decade now, European universities have adopted significant changes in order to meet these requirements. The field of Professional English, or English for Specific Purposes (ESP), directly addresses these demands derived from the Bologna Process. Indeed, the increasing significance and interest in relation to ESP is a direct consequence of the new product-oriented higher education system, as well as of our modern globalized society where English has become the lingua franca in most professional and commercial activities. The present volume seeks in many ways to address this undeniably relevant and up-to-date issue.Skillfully edited by Linde López and Crespo Jiménez, Professional English in the European Context: the EHEA Challenge is a collection of contributions that deal with practical and theoretical aspects of ESP teaching and research in higher education, with a special emphasis on how this academic field has to adjust in order to meet the requirements derived from the implementation of the European Higher Education Area. The book aims not only to present a variety of contexts