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Contents of previous issues

Contents are listed below in chronological order. Please scroll down to see the contents of each issue. Only major articles and reviews are listed here. Back copies or photocopies of most numbers are available from the IATEFL office. Please email ellie@iatefl.org for details.

Issue 29 (December 2006)

Issue 28 (March 2006)

Issue 27 (December 2005)

Issue 26 (February 2005)

Issue 25 (July 2004)

Issue 24 (March 2004)

Issue 23  (July 2003)

Issue 22

• From the ESP SIG Coordinator
• A history of ESP : Its background strands
  R.R. Jordan
• ESP in the Japanese automobile industry
  Daniel Droukis
• Teaching technicians - designing courses in a military context
  Flt./Lt. N McBeath
• Book Review: Ken Hyland's 'Disciplinary Discourses - Social Interaction in Academic Writing'
  Paul Miller
  

Issue 20

• The ESP Committee
• Message from the SIG Coordinator
• ESP in General
  Gordana Pecnik
• Expressing Politeness in English for Tourism
  Pilar de Juan González & Susan Huntley Maycock
• Report on the First Mediterranean ESP Conference
  Mohamed Belaraj
• Getting to Grips with Media Texts
  Ruth Breeze
• What's the Good of an EAP/ESP Professional?
  Bob Wilkinson
• Letters to the Editor
  

Issue 19

• From the ESP SIG Coordinator
• News from TESOL ESP Interest Section
• Business in English - The common thread of ESP & BE
  Dr. Piotr Mamet
• Business (in) English. Culture and language specific aspects of teaching ESP vocabulary
  Andrzej Lyda
• Preparing Japanese students for an English job interview
  Daniel Droukis
• The writing consultation: A resource for business English
  John Harbord
• Letters to the Editor
• SIG Share: Teaching cause and effect
  

Issue 18

• If we are teaching so much journalistic English, why don't we admit it and draw some conclusions for EFL?
  José Ignacio Bermejo
• Using off-air video (combined with Internet): differences in teaching style and student needs in business and medical English.
  Linda Vekemans
• To B.E. or not to B.E.?
  Judy Churchill
• Group testing. A new approach to evaluation.
  Mario González Quiroga, Leonardo Yance Ramírez, Finlay Albarrán
• Profiles, the employment project.
  Lili Wilson
• Conference Reports
  First CERLIS Conference, Bergamo, May 2000
  IATEFL SIG Symposium, Madrid, September 2000
• Book review
  Dan Douglas, Assessing languages for specific purposes, CUP 2000
  Paul Miller
  

Issue 17

• Report on ESP SIG Conference, Bielefeld, February 2000
  J.W.H. Ridder
• News from TESOL ESP Interest Section
  Joan E. Friedenberg
• Choosing an ESP Textbook for Japanese Students in the Airline Industry
  Daniel Droukis
• Lawyers in the Business World
  Marietta Pókay
• EAP: The Human Dimension - Changes, Difficulties & Needs
  R.R. Jordan
• ESP in the Online Classroom: From Controlled Practicce to Free-Flowing Context
  Jode Brexa, Terri Decker, Sally Green & Greg Younger
• SIG Share: Teaching Facts & Figures
  Ruth Breeze
  

Issue 16

• Culturally Encoded Assumptions and Values Held Towards L1 and L2 Reading: An Overview of Issues Related to EAP Reading Comprehension in a Colombian Setting
  Harvey Tejada & Jonathon Deer
• Preparation and Delivery of a Course in English for Specific Academic (Business Administration) Purposes
  Maggie Madden
• Degrees of Independence: Promoting Learner Autonomy in University-Level ESP
  Ruth Breeze
• Non-Native Writing in Publications in Physics: What an Expert Scientist Has to Say
  Ann Montemayor-Borsinger
• Book Reviews: Check your Vocabulary for Law, Check your Vocabulary for Computing
  Jay Bidal
  

Issue 15

• News from TESOL ESP Interest Section
  Mercedes Rossetti & Emily Lites
• Communicating in Legal English or Taking the Law into your Own Hands?
  Stella Smyth
• Teaching Legal English: A Task-Based Approach
  Jean Jacques Weber
• Research Areas in ESP
  Bob R.R. Jordan
• Adding Affect to ESP (English for Special People)
  Brian Tomlinson
  

Issue 14

• Teaching large, heterogeneous classes in ESP
  Juan Carlos Palmer
• Getting to grips with legal English. An emergent field of ESP instruction in higher education.
  Luis Pérez González
• Doing the news in the EFL classroom: a practical journalism project.
  Jamie Fowler
• The analysis of a legal text: Lloyd's Institute cargoclauses.
  María Angeles Orts
• Learning English culture in the ESP class.
  Aránzazu Antón
• English for dietetics and human nutrition. Integrating the WWW.
  Paul Sainsbury
  

Issue 13

• English for Military Purposes
  Flt/Lt N. McBeath
• "Dealing with Dissatisfied Customers" Integrated Skills Work through Task-Based Learning
  Robin Walker
• ESP and the WWW : a Framework for Integration
  Ruth Breeze
• Bridging the Gap between General and Specific English Discourse: Comic-Based Activities in the ESP Classroom
  Ana Bocanegra
• Hospital Drama
  J. Joritz-Nakagawa
  

Issue 12

• Teaching Journalists to Read
  Ruth Breeze
• The Teaching of English for Medical Purposes in Cuba
  Lourdes Albo Puentes & J Armando de la Cruz Rosello
• Authenticity versus Autonomy in ESP Course Design
  Marietta Pókay
• Training International Businessmen: The Dangers of the Intercultural Dimension
  Roisin Donohoe
  

Issue 11

• Logging on to the Language of E-mail: An Approach to Keeping up with Student Needs
  Christine M. Tardy & Douglas Bell
• Needs Analysis and Course Design for Mixed Experience Participants
  Patricia Brooks
• "Now we are speaking the same language":Integrating Language and Professional Skills to Meet Business Needs
  Mary & Eric Bevan
• Report on BALEAP Professional Meeting on Writing
  Bob Wilkinson
• Multimedia in ESP Courses
  Ana Cletiu
• An EAP Checklist: Teacher Induction for Pre-Sessional and Short EAP Courses
  Rob Jordan

Issue 10

• The Business of Finding Faults - Language & Activities for Technical Troubleshooting in ESP
  Douglas Bell
• Modifying a Spoken English Course through Ongoing Student Feedback
  Dr. Ayegul Daloglu
• An EAP Checklist
  Bob R.R. Jordan
• The Process of Materials Design for ESP
  Algirdas Makerevicius
• "Sentence first verdict later" - Courting the Law on a University In-Sessional English Language Course
  Stella Smyth
  

Issue 9

• Report on BALEAP/BASELT Joint Meeting
  Andy Gillet
• Report on BALEAP/BASELT Professional Interest Meeting
  Margeret Swann
• Writing an ESP Book for Teachers: What is Involved
  Bob R.R. Jordan
• From LSP to CSP
  Uta Thürmer
• Intensive English for Technical Staff
  David Shallis
  

Issue 8

• A Comparison of Teaching Student Engineers and Those in the Workplace
  Sylvia Kinder
• Introducing the ESP Multimedia Package
  Pencho Kamburov
• Exploring the Target Situation of our ESP Students
  Anne McCabe-Hidalgo
• Teaching Technical English
  Monika Magyar
• Small Group Work: Teaching English to First Year German University Students of English
  Robert Murphy & Denis Newson
  

Issue 7

• Report on the ESP Track Vienna
  Wolfgang Ridder
• Technical Reading Goes Live
  Dr. Mary Malcolm
• How to Make the Teaching/Learning of ESP Teacher/Learner Friendly
  Diana Popova
• There's More to EAP than Meets the Eye (or Ear)!
  Bob R.R. Jordan
• Predicting Success: Does Entry Level English Determine Success at University?
  Jan Fisher
  

Issue 6

• Motivation in ESP: The Importance of Project Work
  María del Pilar García Mayo
• What is EAP?
  Andy Gillet
• Needs Analysis, Syllabus Design, Material Production for Railway Employees
  Stavroula Kartali
  

Issue 5

• How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love ESP
  Gavin Hay
• An Overvew of the HUT E-Mail Writing Project
  Ruth Vilmi
• Lessons from ESP Vienna '95
  Steven Darian
• The Influence of a Credit System on ESP at the Technical University of Brno
  Milena Krhutová & Ludmila Neuwirthová
• An ESP Course in Developing Reading Strategies Targeted Towards Free Oral Presentation Skills
  Eszter Adam & Ildiko Vune Kiraly
• Teaching ESP Vocabulary
  Helena Curiová & Gabriela Polacková
• When ESP Seeds Germinate: Some Ecological Considerations
  Nicoleta Iftimie & Maria Nicolau
• A Proposed Framework for a Task-Based 'English for Professionals' Course
  Peter Shaw

Issue 4

• Teaching the English of Tourism
  Robin Walker
• English for Vocational/Technical Purposes Viewed from the Inside
  Marie Laure Marmin
• ESP - The State of the Art (Part 1)
  Richard West
• Review of Masetrbriefe in Englsh fur den Auslandsbau
  Judy Norwell
  

Issue 3

• What do our Students Actually Do with English?
  Peter Grundy
• Babel Revisited
  Marcus Heinzmann
• ESP at the IATEFL International Conference at York
  Deborah Mason
• Writing about Writing
  Peter Grundy
  

Issue 2

• Immersion: The Contribution of a Residential Module
  Norma Green Virginia West
• Multimedia in ESP
  Peter Neville
• Project Work with Students of Household Sciences
  Deborah Mason
  

Issue 1

• Welcome to the New ESP Newsletter
  Deborah Mason
• What is the English We Teach?
  A.L Komerova & A.A. LIpgart
• Integrating CALL into ESP
  Nuraihan Mat Daud
• What is ESP and What will the ESP Newsletter Try to Do?
  Dennis Newson
• Preparatory Courses fro Exchange Students
  Nanette Lindeberg, Pearl Lönnfors & Joan Nordlund