LSP and interlanguage: Some empirical studies

Selinker, Larry; Douglas, Dan

doi:10.1016/0889-4906(87)90013-5

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“…Along with the show of deep interest in ESP research, the journal added many special issues targeted at specific learning to further equip practitioners with ESP teaching skills, covering domains ranging from ESP teacher training ( Ewer, 1983 ), vocational ESP ( Crandall and Burkart, 1984 ), interlanguage ( Selinker and Douglas, 1987 ), to international teaching assistant training ( Young, 1989 ). In the regular issues, three most frequently published themes throughout this period were reflected in: (a) Needs Assessment/Needs Analysis and Learning-centered Approach , (b) the Wide-angle Approach vs. the Narrow-angle Approach in ESP and (c) Genre Analysis and Rhetorical Moves.…”

Section: Historical Overview Of Esp Developmentmentioning

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Changing visions in ESP development and teaching: Past, present, and future vistas

2023

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Globalization and international development in language education have inspired a shift from the learning of traditional College English to English for Specific Purposes (ESP). This article begins with a section on the methodology used to develop the literature review. From various literatures, a historical perspective was first presented for the period, 1962 to the present day, and accompanied by a review on the teaching approaches. The purpose was to reveal emerging trends in ESP development and forefront the strength of association between ESP development and the changes in teaching approaches. Then it focuses on the relationship between needs analysis and ESP, as needs analysis is well recognized as a vital ESP characteristic and it is given a comprehensive revisit as an update in ESP development. The review continues with some insights into recent studies from various countries to reflect on various aspectual developments of current ESP practices that illustrate the dynamics of growing research agendas that have implications for current and future ESP research directions. Finally, future vistas for ESP development and teaching are affirmed. The paper concludes on the note on the importance of knowing past and future ESP developments, and the prioritizing of effective teaching based on soundly designed materials tailored to particular student-centered needs and wants.

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Section: Historical Overview Of Esp Developmentmentioning

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Changing visions in ESP development and teaching: Past, present, and future vistas

2023

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“…Selinker and Douglas (1985) note that an individual speaker's competence may be domain-specific. Even fossilization, which comes in for some heavy criticism in Sridhar and Sridhar's article, may be domainspecific, according to Selinker and Douglas (1987). While undoubtedly NIVEs present an interesting case which is worthy of careful study, they cannot lay claim to outlier status in SLA theory on the basis of the evidence presented so far.…”

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“…While the idea of an interaction between the two language systems in the L2 user's mind is not new in the field, the notion of multicompetence has added a new spin by shifting the evaluation angle of the interlanguage system (Selinker 1972; Selinker and Douglas 1987) from one being filled with deficiencies, when compared to native speakers' competence, to one that deserves to be studied in its own right. It has also taken a slightly different view of the integration of the language system in the bilingual mind 1 .…”

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Multicompetence and L2 users' associative links: being unlike nativelike

Zareva

2010

Int J App Linguistics

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The study set out to examine the effects of multicompetence on proficient L2 users' associative links. Three groups of 36 participants each were recruited – NSs of English, NSs of Bulgarian, and proficient Bulgarian L2 users of English – who completed a familiarity and word association test. The findings revealed that L2 users' natural drive to main connectivity of their lexicons was the motivation for their building lexicosemantic connectedness – which, however, was unlike the patterns of connectivity maintained by the native speakers of both their languages. This showed that, as a result of their developing multicompetence, the L2 users were unlike nativelike in that they developed their lexicosemantic associative links favoring diversity over communality and language‐neutral idiosyncrasy over L1 or L2 nativelikeness.

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LSP and interlanguage: Some empirical studies

Cited by 8 publications

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Changing visions in ESP development and teaching: Past, present, and future vistas

Changing visions in ESP development and teaching: Past, present, and future vistas

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