Welcome to English for Specific Purposes SIG Website
The ESP Special Interest Group is one of the fourteen SIGs at IATEFL, and it is main focus is on English for Specific Purposes, English for Academic Purposes and English for Occupational/professional Purposes. The main objective of the ESP SIG in EAP is to disseminate good practice in ESP (as well as EAP and EO/PP) through its membership and to promote models of excellence in ESP to ELT professionals in UK and abroad through workshops, seminars and conferences and through publishing the output in our newsletter / journal and leading ELT journals and periodicals.
We look forward to meeting our ESP and EAP at the IATEFL Conference in Exeter (7-11 April 2008). I hope our colleagues will enjoy the following:
- Our Pre-Conference Event on 7th April (Theme: ‘Advances of ESP in the 21st Century’)
- The official release of the ESP SIG book ‘Current Developments in English for Academic, Specific and Occupational Purposes’ (published by Garnet Education, and available at the Conference from their stand)
- The official release of the ESP SIG e-book ‘English for Academic Purposes in Developing, Emerging and Developing Countries’ (published initially by our SIG, and available in its deluxe DVD edition from the IATEFL & SIGs stand)
- Issue 31 and Issue 30 of the ESP SIG Journal (which has replaced our traditional newsletter; Issue 31 is an exemplar of state-of-the-art editorial developments, and is offered on high-quality paper in full colour. The publication is sponsored by Garnet Education).
We would like to thank Garnet Education, CambridgeESOL and LCCI / EDI for their ongoing assistance.
We hope that the above attractions prove of interest to all the participants. The colleagues who are unable to come will be able to access our Conference report online (and subsequently in Issue 32 of the Journal in late summer) by mid-May 2008. Thank you for the support of our activity.
Mark Krzanowski
IATEFL ESP SIG Co-ordinator
e-mail: ESPsig@iatefl.org
4 April 2008
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