ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES: BRIEF HISTORY AND ORIGIN

1960s 1970s-1980s 1990s- 2000s

-The end of the Second World

War marked a new commerce-
driven world. Many saw the
need of learning English as
international language.
- People learned English to
respond to their needs of cross
cultural communication,
business doing, and information
sharing.
-The first boost of ESP came
from the register analysis of
scientific and technical writing.
- Skill based courses - Rapid increase in
intended to address the research and continued
learners’ specific foreign expansion on major ESP
language needs. To do so, topics
needs analyses were - Changed emphasis from
carried out. specific lexicon of
- Introduction of two key scientific and technical
ESP terms: texts to rhetorical uses
(1) Genre analysis and (2) of language in precise
Rhetorical moves discourses.

Carmina B. Echavia MED-LT I

August 24, 2019