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Dear Colleagues,
Please find enclosed a brief update on our Pre-Conference Event on 15th April 2011 in Brighton. Please go to the left-hand side of the screen, click on the button ‘Pre-Conference Event 2011’ and download all the relevant documents about the event. Thank you. Mark Krzanowski, IATEFL ESP SIG Co-ordinator: February 2011
Dear Colleagues,
Here is a brief update on our current and recent activity.
Right now we are preparing for the Pre-Conference Event in Brighton next year (15 April 2011): please find more information in the WORD document attached here.
[ESP-SIG-Pre-Conference-Event-April 2011 ]
We have just completed the preparation of Issue 36 of the Journal which will soon go to print and should be available to members in late November. We are also working on the third book devoted to English for Work and the Workplace – we are planning to get the book published in the first quarter of 2011, and the book will definitely be promoted at the IATEFL Conference in Brighton (April 2011).
Just to recap on the most recent developments, please note that:
Issue 216 of Voices (September-October 2010) featured an article on our SIG on p. 21. Please find enclosed a jpeg copy of this article on the link below:
[Voices-216-Sep-Oct2010-Spotlinght-on-ESP-SIG ]
Issue 215 of Voices (July-August 2010) contained a short article (p. 24) which summarized the ESP activity at the IATEFL Conference in Harrogate (April 2010). Please find enclosed a jpeg copy of this article on the link below:
[Voices-215-July-Aug2010Focus-on-the-SIGs-ESP ]
For those readers of the website who are not members of the ESP SIG or IATEFL I would like to remind you that last year Garnet Education published our second book ‘Current Developments in English for Academic and Specific Purposes in Developing, Emerging and Least Developed Countries’: for more information about the book, please consult:
http://www.garneteducation.com/en/Book/227/Current_Developments_in_English_for_Academic_and_Specific_Purposes_in_Developing,_Emerging_and_Least-Developed_Countries.html
A detailed review of this book, written by Steve Graham, appeared in Thailand TESOL New Focus Issue 2/May 2010 and can be accessed on: http://www.thaitesol.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89:thailad-tesol-new-focus-issue-2may-2010&catid=58:articles&Itemid=89
Please also find a pdf copy of this book review attached on the link below.
[Book-Review-Steve-Graham-pp.86-91[1] ]
As usual, we have been receiving regular contributions to our Journal, be it articles, conference reports or book reviews.
Please find below a link to the pdf copy of Issue 34 (so that the non-members can see what a member of the SIG can normally access) as well as the cover with the contents page of Issue 35.
[ESP-SIG-Journal-Issue-34-Summer-Autumn09-Final-Version[1] ]
[Issue-35-Cover Contents ]
I hope that this brief update provides a representative ‘snapshot’ of our recent activity. I would like to apologise for the recent silence, and that it has taken quite a time before this update has been placed – we shall now do our best to provide topical information more frequently and in a more timely manner.
Thank you.
Mark Krzanowski
IATEFL ESP SIG Co-ordinator
13 September 2010
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